The College of Engineering’s overall research priorities are aligned with those identified by the Commonwealth of Kentucky’s Office of Commercialization and Innovation. These research areas will afford Kentucky the best opportunity to build centers of research excellence around which competitive technology-based clusters can grow.

The College has active research on-going in each of these new economy areas.The prioirity areas are:

• Environment
• Nanomaterials
• Energy
• Biomaterials
• Visualization
• Sustainable Manufacturing