Watching The Masters? Mechanical Engineering professor Sean Bailey explains Bubba Watson’s historic shot in 2012: http://theclassical.org/articles/the-amen-shot-bubbas-big-masters-moment    

ASME will be hosting a workshop on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at the University of Kentucky. The meeting is organized by the ASME Board of Nuclear Codes and Standards. In addition to the workshop on Tuesday, there will be an ASME board meeting Wednesday and Thursday and a mixer on Wednesday evening.   Download the [...]

Mark Miller has been a fixture in the UK College of Engineering since arriving on campus in the fall of 2007. Eager to apply his education to student organizations competing in engineering competitions, Mark was a part of the Design/Build/Fly team that built and flew “Blue Dawn” in the 2011 competition in Tucson, Ari. During [...]

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James E. Funk, Ph.D., former Dean and Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering for the College of Engineering passed away over the weekend. Dean Funk served from 1972 to 1980 and was the individual most responsible for launching the University’s energy research enterprise.  It was under his direction that the Center for Applied Energy Research [...]

On Monday, May 7, 2012, it was announced that Dr. I.S. Jawahir has been approved by the Provost as Director of the Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing (ISM).  In his email announcing this appointment, Dean Lester wrote, “Dr. Jawahir has provided outstanding leadership to the College’s manufacturing endeavors, and I look forward to his continuing work [...]

ASME Bluegrass Section Outstanding Scholar – Daniel Woods, Ifedi Anyaegbunam, Addison Alexander Pi Tau Sigma Outstanding Mechanical Engineering Sophomore – Brandon Sander Outstanding Mechanical Engineering Junior – Benjamin Maddux, William Kennedy Outstanding Mechanical Engineering Senior – Joshua Nation Outstanding Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student – Wen Liu Outstanding Mechanical Engineering Faculty – Dr. Johné Parker, Dr. [...]

In 1960, Alan Male was hired as a full-time faculty member at the University of Birmingham, England. Over 50 years later, after a decorated career in both industry and academia, Dr. Male will retire at semester’s end. We sat down with the eminent professor to hear his reflections on a life devoted to manufacturing. Read [...]

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition kicked off Friday morning at the Hyatt Regency Denver and Colorado Convention Center and will run through November 17. Many of our mechanical engineering faculty will be in attendance, along with renowned researchers and engineers in the field from all over the world. [...]

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Thermophysics Technical Committee recently conferred UK mechanical engineering professor Alexandre Martin, Ph.D. the AIAA Best Paper at the annual Thermophysics Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dr. Martin’s paper, titled: “CFD Implementation Of A Novel Carbon-Phenolic-In-Air Chemistry Model for Atmospheric Re-Entry” was co-authored with Dr. Iain Boyd from the [...]