The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) student branch participated in the global IEEE Xtreme 24-Hour Programming Competition on October 21-22. Eight UK teams of three students each competed in the event and one UK team placed 31st out of over 1,500 teams. IEEE UK Student Branch Counselor Regina Hannemann was pleased with the [...]
Professor and chair of the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering Douglass Kalika has been elected Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). According to the organization’s guidelines, Fellows are elite members of AIChE who have been practicing chemical engineering for normally 25 years or more, and have been a member for at [...]
On Saturday, November 3, the University of Kentucky hosted the Mid-Central Regionals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest. The Mid-Central region includes Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois (including the greater Chicago metropolitan area in Indiana), Kentucky and Tennessee. Over 150 teams competed at several satellite sites. The Lexington site was organized by [...]
The University of Kentucky American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) student chapters recently attended the AIChE Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA (October 27 – November 2). Thirty undergraduates from Lexington attended this meeting and participated in a wide variety of conference events. Sixteen students representing the Paducah chapter also attended. The Lexington UK AIChE student [...]
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 8, 2012) — Three patents from the University of Kentucky National Institute of Environmental Health Science’s Superfund Research Program (SRP) have been licensed by Sepro Membranes, Inc. in Oceanside, Calif. Dibakar Bhattacharyya, University Alumni Professor of Chemical Engineering in the UK College of Engineering, serves as principal investigator on the projects. Read [...]
Vijay Dhir, distinguished professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and dean of UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been accorded the status of Honorary Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The distinction recognizes a lifetime of service to engineering or related fields and Dhir will formally receive the honor [...]
Rick Honaker, chair of the Department of Mining Engineering, has announced professor Joseph Sottile is the 2012 recipient of the Stephen McCann Award for Excellence in Education. The award is issued by the Pittsburg Coal Mining Institute and Sottile was selected at a recent meeting. “Dr. Sottile has dedicated his professional career to ensuring the [...]
Rick Honaker, professor and chair of the Department of Mining Engineering at the University of Kentucky has announced that the UK Norwood student chapter of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME) has been selected as the winner of two prestigious honors: the Mineral Education Coalition (MEC) Award and the SME Outstanding Student Chapter [...]
Guoqiang Yu, an associate professor in the Center for Biomedical Engineering, has devoted years of research to developing novel diffuse optical devices that can noninvasively measure the blood flow, oxygenation and metabolic rate of a tumor. By placing a foam pad containing several optic fibers onto a patient’s neck to establish contact, doctors can learn [...]
Although born and raised in Lexington, Josiah Hanna never seriously considered obtaining an undergraduate education in computer science from the University of Kentucky. “I was actually determined to get away and see more of the country,” he laughs. “I didn’t even take a tour of the campus.” Yet there were compelling reasons for Josiah to [...]
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