University of Kentucky engineering professor Jim Smart has published his first book, “Engineering Fluid Mechanics” in China. Smart teaches at the UK College of Engineering Paducah Campus.  He collaborated with three Chinese professors at the Chinese University of Mining and Technology in Xuzhou, China (40,000 students).  It is a 300-page undergraduate textbook dealing with fluid [...]

Wesley Whipple, Junior Chemical and Materials Engineering student at the Paducah Extended Campus was awarded the Undergraduate Research Poster Award in Chemistry at the 2011 Math, Engineering and Science Conference

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 [...]

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 [...]

Dr. Y. Charles Lu, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at UK’s Paducah campus, has been selected as a 2010 SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award recipient. The SAE Teetor Program stimulates contacts between younger engineering educators and practicing engineers in industry and government.
Established in 1953, this award is administered by the [...]