One year after a broken left suspension prevented them from competing, the UK Solar Car Team earned its highest finish since 2009 and shattered the fastest lap record.
Annually, the NSF awards approximately 1,500 fellowships from an applicant pool of over 12,000.
Sean Bailey and Alexandre Martin, associate professors of mechanical engineering at UK, will serve as Science-Co-Investigators along with Jens Hannemann from Kentucky State University on the NASA project.
Mechanical engineering professor Suzanne Smith and chemical engineering lecturer Sarah Wilson received Outstanding Teaching Awards during the 2019 UK Faculty Awards Ceremony.
Kunlei Liu, associate director at CAER and associate professor of mechanical engineering in the UK College of Engineering, will serve as co-principal investigator.
The annual Dean’s Faculty Awards ceremony was held April 15, 2018 at the Hilary J. Boone Center. Awards were given to faculty members and graduate students.
The annual College of Engineering Awards Banquet sponsored by Tau Beta Pi took place April 9, 2019 at the Bill Gatton Student Center.
Lonnie Bellar, Claude "Skip" Berry III, David Houchin, Mary Beth Willis Hudson, Karen Martin Maxwell and Steve Polston were inducted into the Hall of Distinction April 12.
Tingwen “Tim” Wu, professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is the winner of the 2019 Henry Mason Lutes Award for Excellence in Engineering Education.
Launched in 1999, the UK Solar Car Team is just the eighth team nationally to reach the 20-year milestone. It began racing competitively in 2003.