LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 16, 2012) — Energy research became more energy efficient as the University of Kentucky opened its newest energy research building yesterday ― a living laboratory devoted to renewable energy and energy storage. The $20.8 million laboratory building will allow UK to expand research devoted to Kentucky’s growing renewable energy industries, including biomass [...]
In May, the Center for Applied Energy Research opened a new laboratory near its Iron Works Pike location in Lexington. The new facility provides 43,000 square feet of research space and features state of the art laboratories for three different research groups. Designed to operate 54% more efficiently than a standard laboratory building, the building [...]
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 9, 2012) — Twenty girls from grades 8-11 spent a week on the University of Kentucky campus learning about underwater robotics from UK College of Engineering faculty, a Lexmark engineer and student mentors. Read full article on UKNow
VisU, a yearly undergraduate research program developed by the Center for Visual and Virtual Environments, capped off its summer of research projects with a series of student presentations in the James F. Hardymon Theatre of the Davis Marksbury Building on Thursday, August 2. As in summers past, participants were a mixture of engineering and computer [...]
Of the making of books about Toyota, there is no end. Whether analyzing Toyota’s supply chain management, culture, history or philosophy, authors have long been intrigued by the inner workings of the internationally successful automotive manufacturer. Some, like University of Michigan industrial engineering professor Jeffrey Liker’s 2003 volume The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from [...]
In May of 2011, Jeff Seay, professor of chemical engineering at the University of Kentucky at Paducah, led a group of students to a design competition sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency called People, Prosperity and the Planet in Washington D.C. At the National Sustainable Design Expo where the group displayed their designs for biodiesel [...]
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 13, 2012) — John Y. Walz, professor and department head of chemical engineering at Virginia Polytechnic and State University, has been named the 10th dean of the University of Kentucky College of Engineering. He will begin Sept. 1, 2012. View Full Article
The importance of having the financial resources necessary to attract the most promising students to the College of Engineering has never been lost on Engineering Dean Thomas W. Lester. “Engineering draws the best students. That’s just the nature of the engineering,” he says. “But it also takes competitive scholarships to help entice those students to [...]
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 [...]
Students are accustomed to filling out application of all kinds: undergraduate scholarship applications, grant applications, graduate fellowship applications, job applications, etc. Once the paperwork is submitted, the waiting begins. Days become weeks and weeks become months. Sometimes the waiting pays off with good news…and sometimes it doesn’t. It all comes with the territory of being [...]
Last updated: January 16, 2013