This fall, the UK College of Engineering and Department of Civil Engineering welcomed Dr. Reginald Souleyrette as the first-ever Commonwealth Chair Professor in Transportation Engineering. Dr. Souleyrette arrived after an 18 year tenured residency at Iowa State University, where he served as a professor of civil engineering and associate director of the Institute for Transportation. [...]
The University of Kentucky’s Davis Marksbury building, part of the UK College of Engineering’s “Digital Village,” was formally dedicated today with a ribbon cutting ceremony and public tour of the building.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 9, 2011) — Since 2000, Brent Seales, director of the University of Kentucky Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments (commonly called the Vis Center) and computer science professor, has visited the island of Puerto Rico and invited talented students to apply for an internship at UK. The program, now called VisU, was [...]
Summer classes—for some, they are a necessary evil, a hurdle to jump in order to graduate on time. For others, they allow students to remain on campus and avoid thankless summer jobs. For 10 UK College of Engineering students in the BS/MBA program, taking summer classes meant a tour of six cities in four European [...]
While “See Blue” serves as UK’s ubiquitous motto, the recently opened, state-of-the-art Davis Marksbury Building has the university excited about a different color: Gold. The Marksbury Building, Phase II of the College of Engineering’s Digital Village Complex , recently received a LEED® Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). LEED is the USGBC’s [...]
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 [...]
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.
On Friday, April 15, 2011, the College of Engineering honored five alumni who have demonstrated distinguished engineering professional accomplishments, outstanding character and commitment to community service. This recognition serves to encourage exemplary achievements by current students and others. It is a symbol of the respect and admiration held by the University of Kentucky College of [...]
Kimberly Ward Anderson, Ph.D., Gill Eminent Professor in chemical engineering has been selected as the 2011 recipient of the Henry Mason Lutes Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Anderson received the award at the University of Kentucky College of Engineering’s Tau Beta Pi Awards banquet on April 12. Complete list of Tau Beta Pi Award [...]
View Gallery Archaeologists have long used digital photography to document ancient findings. But a group from the University of Kentucky Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments is using structured light illumination (SLI) to also gather 3-D data on such artifacts, allowing for scientific measurement and further study. In September 2010, Blazie Professor Dr. Larry Hassebrook, [...]
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