Dhir is regarded as one of the world’s foremost authorities on heat transfer, as well as engineering education. A recipient of numerous awards, Dhir was inducted into the University of Kentucky’s Engineering Hall of Distinction in 2004.

Dr. Bowen is the founder and chairman of Bowen Engineering and has received honorary doctorates in Business Administration from the University of Indiana in Evansville and in Engineering from Purdue Engineering.  Dr. Bowen was recently appointed the Donn E. Hancher Distinguished Fellow by the Construction Engineering and Management Program at Purdue University where he taught a class on Leadership and Advanced Project Management. 

The Hancher Lecture was established by the Construction Engineering and Project Management faculty to honor Donn E. Hancher for his contributions to civil engineering and the Construction Engineering and Project Management program at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Hancher, who retired from UK in 2008 after 17 years of service, had been the Terrell-McDowell Chair of Construction Engineering & Project Management, chair of the Department of Civil Engineering, and Associate Dean of the College of Engineering.

For more information, contact Ann-Marie Harik, President of UK’s ASCE chapter.

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™ recognizes undergraduate students who have declared a major in electrical and computer engineering, are high achievers with strong GPAs with distinctive extracurricular commitments and are committed to exploring the power and energy field.

Each scholarship recipient receives $2,000 as well as a certificate commemorating their award.

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 expertise simultaneously against other student programmers around the world.

All UK teams had at least 2 problems correctly submitted, ranging in the upper third of all teams worldwide.  The three best teams scored on place 167 (Team AlpherBeterGammer), place 105 (Team SoccerMoms) place 90 (Team ZarroBugs)

For the competition, teams had to solve 15 problems. The problems were released at different times starting with the first one at 8pm on Friday and the last one being released around 5 pm on Saturday.  

The other UK teams were theDontCares, AbstractDistract, and Photographers.

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Complete list of Tau Beta Pi Award winners

The annual award was established to recognize and reward outstanding teaching accomplishments.  Recipients of the award are expected not only to be outstanding teachers, but individuals who are or, can become, role models for other faculty.  Recipients must also have exhibited excellent teaching over a sustained period of time, have exhibited imagination and exceptional dedication to student needs and demonstrated the ability to challenge and inspire students.

An instructor at UK for 24 years, Dr. Anderson believes that “an outstanding teacher goes beyond the classroom setting and provides positive mentoring in many different ways.  In my years of teaching at UK, I have not only taught graduate and undergraduate courses, but have also engaged students in learning by providing opportunities for them to participate in independent research activities.  My overall goal as an instructor is to engage each and every student in active learning and to instill the confidence that they need to function as independent engineers and scientists.”

In letters of support, former undergraduate student Kevin Baldridge wrote “She is clear about what she expects and provides the instruction necessary to understand the importance of assignments.  In addition, the assignments she gives are imaginative in their real world applicability.” Another former student, Jenna Shapiro wrote “As a senior in chemical engineering, I have had the privilege of having Dr Anderson as a teacher for three of my undergraduate courses.  Additionally, she has served as my research advisor since I began research during my senior year of high school.  Because of my initial research experiences in Dr. Anderson’s lab, I became a chemical engineering major.   I credit much of my success in my undergraduate career to her guidance and dedication, both as a teacher and advisor.”

A highly decorated professional, Dr. Anderson was awarded the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1991, the Excellence Award in Undergraduate Education from the University of Kentucky in 1991, the National Institutes of Health Shannon Award in 1992, the Gill Eminent Professorship at UK in 2002, the Sarah Bennett Holmes Award for promoting women students in the UK College of Engineering, the UK Research Professorship Award in 2010 and was named the Outstanding Teacher in chemical engineering in 2011.

Dr. Anderson claims numerous professional society memberships including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Biomedical Engineering Society, the Society of Biological Engineering, the Society of Women Engineers, the Women in Engineering Program Advocates Network and American Society for Engineering Education.  She is a member of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, the Omega Chi Epsilon Chemical Engineering Honor Society, the Sigma XI Scientific Research Society and the Omicron Delta Kappa Society.

Her areas of research specialization include rheological properties of cell membranes including adhesion and deformation properties, biofunctional membranes and enzyme immobilization, biocompatible surfaces, nanocomposite hydrogels, bioluminescence, cell-based biosensors, biofouling of surfaces and cancer detection and treatment.

Dr. Anderson received a B.S. in chemical engineering from Youngstown State University.  She received her Ph.D. in chemical engineering/biomedical engineering, as well as a Postdoctorate Fellow in bioengineering from Carnegie Mellon University.