David Herrin, Ph.D. and Director of the Vibro-Acoustics Consortium, is featured on the cover of the July issue of Sound & Vibration magazine. The trade publication, which focuses on topics such as noise and vibration control, acoustical engineering and computer-aided engineering, reaches industry professionals and university engineering departments on a monthly basis. Sound & Vibration [...]
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 15, 2011) — The University of Kentucky Research Foundation has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to receive $14,502,144 to help develop ways to reduce the cost and improve the efficiency of advanced carbon capture systems used at coal-fired power plants. The project, titled “Application of a Heat Integrated [...]
On Thursday, July 21, 2011, the Space Shuttle Atlantis safely landed at Kennedy Space Center, completing the final mission of the Space Shuttle program. For three decades, the shuttle was a fixture in American consciousness when it came to space exploration and research. Now, the four decommissioned shuttles (Enterprise, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour) will no [...]
From among General Electric (GE)’s more than 30,000 technologists, UK alumnus Berkley Davis, Ph.D. was recently given one of seven prestigious Edison Awards. The annual awards recognize technical achievements leading to new products, competitive advantages and breakthrough technologies. Dr. Davis received his Edison Award for leading GE Energy research and development teams that pioneered combustion [...]
University of Kentucky College of Agriculture students recently claimed high honors in an international quarter-scale tractor competition in Peoria, Ill. The team, made up of undergraduate students, entered a quarter-scale tractor they designed and built with oversight from their faculty advisers. It was UK’s 13th-straight entry in the 14-year-old competition sponsored by the American Society [...]
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 [...]
The Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing (ISM), in conjunction with the United States Army, hosted a two-day workshop titled: “Innovation for Sustainable Manufacturing & Workforce Effectiveness” June 21-22 on UK’s Lexington campus. The University of Utah and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee collaborated with ISM on the workshop. Fazleena Badurdeen, Ph.D., a professor within the ISM, and [...]
The UK College of Engineering hosted Project Lead the Way’s Gateway Academy June 13-17 on UK’s Lexington campus. Thirty-five students who will be entering 7th grade participated in the curriculum, which involved bridge building, an “Eggstronaut” egg drop contest and constructing rockets made from plastic bottles—which were launched on the lawn of UK’s Main Building. [...]
Normally, the runway at R.J. Corman Aviation Services’ Lucas Field in Nicholasville, KY accommodates sleek multi-passenger jets, but on May 24, it was used by high school students participating in the 2011 KIAE Wing Design Competition.
Dr. Yu Shang, postdoctoral scholar in Bio-photonic Lab (PI: Dr. Guoqiang Yu) at the Center for Biomedical Engineering, was recently awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association (AHA) for a project entitled, “Development of Diffuse Optical Spectroscopies for Monitoring Cerebral Blood Flow and Oxygenation in Mouse Stroke Model”. The goal of this [...]
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