As one of UK Paducah’s four chemical engineering professors, students expect to see Jim Smart hard at work in the classroom; yet, it’s understandable when they are surprised to see him sitting next to them as a student. Read Full Profile
In May of 2011, Jeff Seay, professor of chemical engineering at the University of Kentucky at Paducah, led a group of students to a design competition sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency called People, Prosperity and the Planet in Washington D.C. At the National Sustainable Design Expo where the group displayed their designs for biodiesel [...]
(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
College of Engineering Dean Thomas Lester today announced that the following individuals have been recognized by the Provost for Outstanding Teaching during the past year: David Silverstein, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Paducah Program Emily Dotson, Gender and Women’s Studies Dean Lester also announced that the following individuals were named as finalists for this year’s [...]
Junior Chemical and Materials Engineering Student Wesley Whipple from the Paducah Extended Campus was awarded the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award at the 2011 International Congress of Sustainability Science and Engineering in Tucson, Arizona for his contribution titled “Interfacial Phenomena in Biodiesel Production”. Wesley is mentored by Dr. Jeffrey Seay, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Materials [...]
Vegetable oil is a staple in most restaurants, cafeterias and kitchens.
But it’s also the stuff of science. A group of local high school students is converting vegetable oil into diesel fuel.
Watch the video to see an experiment that starts where the cooking stops.
The UK Paducah Baja team competed in the 2010 Baja SAE Rochester Wet World Challenge at the Rochester Institute of Technology from June 11-13. The team finished 40th overall out of 92 registered teams with a 24th place finish in Suspension and Traction and 36th place finish in the endurance race.
Chemical and materials engineering students Luke Richardson from the Paducah campus and Andrea Ramsey from the Lexington campus traveled to Hangzhou, China with Dr. Jeffrey Seay to attend the Second International Symposium of Sustainable Chemical Product and Process Engineering. Both students participated at the conference by presenting posters detailing the results of their undergraduate research [...]
The poster by UK-Paducah student Kelsie Travis was judged the best in the ASME District C Old Guard Technical Poster Competition at the Student Professional Development Conference held in St. Louis on April 8-11. A $200 prize accompanies this award. Travis’s poster involved work completed in the capstone design course sequence for Ingram Barge Company [...]
University of Kentucky chemical engineering students and the student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) were again prominent at this year’s AIChE Southern Regional Conference. Twenty-nine students from Lexington participated in the conference that was held April 9-11 in Raleigh, N.C. Kevin Baldridge, Chelsie Bottom, Eric Coker, Lisa He, Alex Heilman, and [...]
Last updated: January 16, 2013