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 [...]
On Friday, April 20, 2012, the University of Kentucky College of Engineering inducted four new members into its Hall of Distinction—the highest level of alumni recognition granted by the College. The newest members were: Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch (electrical engineering, 1988), D.L. Lobb (civil engineering, 1979), James W. McCurry (mechanical engineering, 1953) and Larry E. Whaley (civil [...]
In Dr. Y.T. Cheng’s first floor Anderson Tower office, shelves of books adorn nearly the entire length of two walls. They are books one would expect to find in a typical materials engineering professor’s office; books on physics, chemistry, mechanics, mathematics and, of course, materials science and engineering. So what is he reading at this [...]
Words like “enthusiastic”, “passionate”, and “energetic” are used universally to describe the 2012 recipient of the Henry Mason Lutes Award for the College of Engineering. Dr. Jeffrey Ashley, Jr., lecturer, electrical and computer engineering, received the award for excellence in teaching at the University of Kentucky College of Engineering’s Tau Beta Pi Awards banquet on [...]
Dr. Sen-Ching (Samson) Cheung is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a faculty member within the Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments. Like most professors, he is deeply involved in engineering research. Most of his research has been in the area of multimedia information analysis. “I enjoy solving problems [...]
The UK College of Engineering capped National Engineers Week with its annual Engineers Day Open House extravaganza February 25 in the engineering quadrangle. Over 1,500 visitors availed themselves to creative contests, exhibitors’ displays and dynamic visual presentations provided by faculty members, student groups and representatives from local businesses and agencies. The event stretched across five [...]
Electrical and computer engineering professor Dr. Larry Hassebrook has researched Structured Light Illumination and 3D scanning for over 30 years. Testing the applications and benefits of his scanner prototypes has led him everywhere from graveyards at midnight to rappelling into once inaccessible caves. However, this past summer, Dr. Hassebrook put his equipment to the ultimate [...]
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