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Pizza on the Patio

Chris Gabel — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:24:15 +0000

We welcome back our students in style with a pizza party in the Joseph G. and Suzzane W. Teague Courtyard. This event is sponsored by the Alumni Association and uses the time to engage and encourage students and promote alumni affairs.

Annual ASME Conference Commences in Denver

Kel Hahn — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:55:45 +0000

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 conference will feature keynote speakers, student design competitions and industry and vendor exhibits. This year’s focus is on “Energy and Water Scarcity.”

The conference’s website describes the 2011 Congress as “a premier global conference that focuses on today’s technical challenges, research updates and breakthrough innovations that are shaping the future of engineering. The Congress convenes engineers, scientists and technologists of all disciplines for the purposes of exploring solutions to global challenges and for the advancement of engineering excellence worldwide.”

Find more information, visit http://www.asmeconferences.org/congress2011/.

Bowen Engineering Founder to Give Hancher Lecture

Kel Hahn — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:40:54 +0000

The second annual Donn E. Hancher Lecture will be held on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 in the auditorium of the William T. Young Library on the campus of the University of Kentucky. Dr. Bob Bowen of Bowen Engineering Corporation in Indianapolis, Indiana, will be lecturing on the topic, “Thinking like a Contractor.” A reception will be held in the gallery adjacent to the auditorium beginning at 5:00 pm with the Hancher Lecture beginning at 6:00 pm.

Dr. Bowen is the founder and chairman of Bowen Engineering and has received honorary doctorates in Business Administration from the University of Indiana in Evansville and in Engineering from Purdue Engineering. Dr. Bowen was recently appointed the Donn E. Hancher Distinguished Fellow by the Construction Engineering and Management Program at Purdue University where he taught a class on Leadership and Advanced Project Management.

The Hancher Lecture was established by the Construction Engineering and Project Management faculty to honor Donn E. Hancher for his contributions to civil engineering and the Construction Engineering and Project Management program at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Hancher, who retired from UK in 2008 after 17 years of service, had been the Terrell-McDowell Chair of Construction Engineering & Project Management, chair of the Department of Civil Engineering, and Associate Dean of the College of Engineering.

Think you can code?

Kel Hahn — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:14:54 +0000

On 22 October 2011 00:00:00 UTC, you can prove it. The IEEEXtreme Programming Competition 5.0, hosted by IEEE, is an innovative global online competition in which you and a team of up to two other IEEE Student Branch members can test your collective coding expertise simultaneously against other student programmers around the world. Solve and win the world’s most Xtreme programming challenge and your team will be able to claim ultimate bragging rights, be recognized as some of the world’s top up-and-coming programmers, and win an all-expense-paid trip to the IEEE event or conference of the team’s choice – anywhere in the world. Other prizes will include cool gear from our sponsors.