The second annual Donn E. Hancher Lecture will be held on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 in the auditorium of the William T. Young Library on the campus of the University of Kentucky. Dr. Bob Bowen of Bowen Engineering Corporation in Indianapolis, Indiana, will be lecturing on the topic, “Thinking like a Contractor.” A reception will [...]
The American Society of Civil Engineers Student Chapter Toy Drive is underway, and students are encouraging toy donations from anyone desiring to help. The toy drive will benefit the UK Children’s Hospital this coming holiday season and gifts may be brought to the Department of Civil Engineering’s main office—Oliver H. Raymond Building (OHR) 161. The [...]
The IEEE Power and Energy Society has selected five UK College of Engineering electrical engineering students to receive scholarships as part of the inaugural round of the Scholarship Plus Initiative™. The students selected are: junior Nick Aerni; senior Michael Ard; senior Joseph Kaseta; senior Jordan Laycock; and sophomore Seth Hendrix. The PES Scholarship Plus Initiative™ [...]
Six teams from the University of Kentucky IEEE Student Branch competed against over 1,400 teams worldwide in the 24-hour IEEEXtreme Programming Competition 5.0 on October 21-22, 2011. IEEEXtreme is an innovative global online competition in which a team of IEEE Student Branch members compete in a 24-hour time span to test their collective coding [...]
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 24, 2011) — A breakthrough in research at the University of Kentucky could lead to significant improvements in carbon capture technology. State officials joined UK representatives Oct. 21 to announce funding to scale up the technology’s research, which uses algae to capture carbon dioxide from coal-burning power plants and convert it to [...]
Dr. Meikang Qiu, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was given the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Transaction Best Paper Award at an international IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference held in San Diego, CA June 5-9. The honor acknowledges the best paper published in the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems journal between [...]
Dean Thomas W. Lester announced on Friday, May 20, 2011 that Dr. Sue Nokes, Ph.D., P.E. has been appointed as chair of the biosystems and agriculture engineering department. “Dr. Nokes has compiled an excellent record as a teacher and scholar,” said Dean Lester in his announcement, “and has served as director of undergraduate studies. She [...]
In the annual survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, engineering and computer science swept the top eight spots in their top 10 paying jobs for 2011 graduates.
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