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 [...]
Each year, the Provost’s Office culls through nomination letters, student evaluations, peer recommendations and other selected criteria and emerges with its winners of the Provost’s Awards for Outstanding Teaching—awards established by the Provost to reward and encourage excellence in teaching. A maximum of six awards may be given from among the entire university’s faculty. This [...]
Mining engineering professor Dr. Braden Lusk has been named as the recipient of two prominent awards: the J.W. Woomer Award and the International Society of Explosives Engineers President’s Award. The J.W. Woomer Award is a national award presented by the Coal & Energy Division of the Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration to a recipient [...]
Currently, there are seven faculty members with joint appointments in the UK’s College of Medicine’s Department of Surgery. Most of the appointments have a logical relationship with surgery: pediatrics, pharmacy, anesthesiology and radiology. However, there is one joint appointment that, at first glance, doesn’t have a natural association with surgery: mechanical engineering. Dr. Jonathan Wenk, [...]
With all due respect to Captain James Kirk from the famed Star Trek series, Dr. Sridhar Sunderam disagrees that space is the “final frontier.” Rather, the greatest territory for discovery lies closer to humankind than the universe’s undetected outposts. In fact, it’s closer than our atmosphere, environment and even our own skin.
Last updated: January 16, 2013