The Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments (Vis Center) has launched its annual VisU program that brings local students, as well as students from Puerto Rico, together for a summer of visualization research in the Davis Marksbury Building. Read their first blog entries to see how they are getting along! Read Full Article
(PADUCAH, KY) June 11, 2012 – While Americans may complain about fuel prices, the availability and access to transportation fuel is something that most can take for granted. Several local University of Kentucky College of Engineering Paducah students recently learned that is not necessarily so in other areas of the world. Read full article
Collaboration between education at all levels, private supporters and business and industry can reap a variety of rewards for any community. This has certainly been the case with the partnerships that have produced a thriving four-year engineering education program in Paducah. Read more: Four Rivers Business Journal – Right people key to success of Paducah [...]
The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center hosted its annual Markey Cancer Center Research Day on May 16, 2012. This annual event celebrates the advances of cancer research on the University of Kentucky campus with distinguished speakers, oral and poster presentations. With a record-breaking 132 total posters this year, the College of Engineering was pleased [...]
On April 26, the Rotary Club of Lexington conferred four awards upon four University of Kentucky engineering students. Three of the students will be freshmen this fall and one student will be a junior. Todd William Montgomery of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School received the 2012 Rotary Scholar Award. Todd ranked in the top 2% [...]
2012 Wing Design Competition Teams Bryan Station High School Corbin Area Technology Center Danville High School Frankfort High School Monroe County High School Muhlenberg County High School Rowan County High School South Warren High School Taylor County High School Planes designed and built by nine Kentucky high schools took to the air Monday, May 14, [...]
Computer Science Department professor Greg Wasilkowski’s paper “Tractability of infinite-dimensional integration in the worst case and randomized settings” has been selected as a co-winner of the 2011 Best Paper Award from the Journal of Complexity.
SOMERSET, Ky. (May 18, 2012) — Somerset Community College (SCC) and the University of Kentucky College of Engineering officially entered a Memorandum of Agreement May 9 to partner together to benefit community college students interested in pursuing a degree in engineering at UK. The agreement allows for students to complete their Associate in Science [...]
The Lexington and Paducah student chapters of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) were again recognized as “Outstanding Student Chapters” for 2010-2011. The Lexington chapter has received this award each year since 1988 the longest active consecutive streak in the nation. The Paducah chapter has been named as an Outstanding Student Chapter every [...]
PADUCAH, KY (5/14/12) – Change is a good thing according to Dr. William Murphy, the founding director of the University of Kentucky’s College of Engineering in Paducah. Murphy, who was hired in 1998 to lead the newly formed program, is stepping down as director, effective July 1, 2012. The university is in the process of establishing [...]
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