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Governor
visits with KySat team
Governor Steve Beshear talked
with engineering students and faculty and learned about the Kentucky
Satellite project during a visit to UK Monday. The governor took
a tour of part of the Center for Nanoscale Science
and Technology, including a clean room where students were working
with components of the satellite. Photos below
In a news
conference at UK before the tour, the governor announced two major
federal grants totaling over $14 million to fund high-tech research
at Kentucky universities and efforts to increase Advanced Placement
education in high schools.
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Daniel
Erb (center), a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering,
talked
with Governor Beshear as they viewed posters that describe the
development
of the Kentucky Satellite project. Tyler Doering, another ECE
graduate student, is
at right. Both Erb and Doering are part of the Kentucky Satellite
team. |
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As
Governor Steve Beshear observed, Dr. James Lumpp, associate professor
of
electrical
and computer engineering and advisor to the Kentucky Satellite
team, pointed
out components of the satellite. Inside the clean room is Samir
Rawashdeh, a graduate
student in electrical engineering and a member of the KySat team. |
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graduate student Samir Rawashdei (left) and mechanical engineering
undergraduate
Anthony Karam were prepared for the governor's arrival.
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