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Girls STEM collaborative offers mini-grants
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The Kentucky Girls STEM Collaborative,
a statewide initiative to encourage girls to pursue careers in
science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), is currently
offering mini-grants of up to $1,000.
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Going lean
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Boeing
group visits Center
for Manufacturing
Gift to support
research
A
team from Boeing, the world's largest manufacturer of commercial
jetliners and military aircraft, visited the University of Kentucky
Center for Manufacturing
Thursday to learn more about lean manufacturing and the Toyota
Production System.
Boeing
is also providing funding for UK research into lean manufacturing.
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BEST experience at UK includes classes, competition
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The College of Engineering welcomed
26 outstanding high school students from across Kentucky to campus
for the second annual UK BEST program. BEST stands for Building
Engineering, Science and Technology.
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Middle school students visit UK for Governor's Minority Program
and KEEP
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About 200 middle school students visited
UK Tuesday and Wednesday, June 3-4, as part of the Governor's
Minority Student College Preparation Program.
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BSMBA: One graduate's story
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The joint degree program between the
UK College of Engineering and the Gatton College of Business and
Economics allows students to graduate with both a Bachelor of
Science in engineering and a Master of Business Administration.
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about BSMBA graduate Landon Marston
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Engineering research part of $10 M grant to UK
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The University of Kentucky has received
a grant of more than $10 million for a multi-disciplinary study
of the relationships among environmental pollutants, nutrition
and disease.
The College of Engineering
is one of five UK colleges that will be part of the research effort,
which will also develop new technologies to detect and remove
pollutants.
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Supporting the space program
Engineering
student Tabler reports from D.C.
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UK engineering student Brett Tabler
was in Washington D.C. last week to encourage Congressional support
of the nation's space program. Tabler works with Jacobs Technology
at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston as part of the UK College
of Engineering co-op program.
Read
Brett's complete D.C. blog!
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Introducing Gato del Sol
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The latest model of the UK Solar
Car, Gato del Sol, was unveiled Wednesday, May 21.
A UK team and Gato del
Sol will compete in the 2008 North American Solar Challenge (NASC2008),
a competition to design, build, and drive solar-powered cars in
a cross-country time/distance rally event. Teams compete in a
2400 mile drive from Dallas, Texas to Calgary, Alberta in July.
news
coverage from WKYT-TV, WTVQ-TV, WUKY, Lexington Herald-Leader,
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UK, CoE work highlighted at Kentucky Space Conference
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UK College of Engineering faculty and
students and the Kentucky Satellite project (KySat) were prominent
at Kentucky Space Conference '08 held May 7 in Lexington.
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CoE honors graduates
Lutes
award goes to ME's Smith
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The College of Engineering honored close
to 600 graduates, including 63 who earned doctoral degrees, during
a recognition ceremony Sunday at Heritage Hall in Lexington.
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Suzanne Weaver Smith,
Donald and Gertrude Lester Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
received the Henry
Mason Lutes Award for Excellence in Teaching in the College of
Engineering.
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