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Seay Wins 2018 Lutes Award

April 18, 2018

At the annual Tau Beta Pi Award Banquet held April 17, Jeffrey Seay was named the 2018 winner of the Henry Mason Lutes for Excellence in Engineering Education Award.

At the annual Tau Beta Pi Award Banquet held April 17, Jeffrey Seay was named the 2018 winner of the Henry Mason Lutes for Award for Excellence in Engineering Education. Seay is the PJC Board of Trustees Engineering Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Kentucky College of Engineering Extended Campus in Paducah.

Since leaving industry to pursue an academic career in 2008, Seay has sought to achieve excellence in all aspects of teaching. His efforts have been recognized with the 2013, 2017 and 2018 Outstanding Teaching Awards in Chemical Engineering at the Paducah campus, as well as the 2017 Provost Outstanding Teaching Award. In 2013, Seay was recognized at the national level as the inaugural recipient of the AIChE Sustainable Engineering Education Award.

In Paducah, Seay has taught an exceptionally broad range of core courses in chemical engineering including senior capstone design. In addition, he has developed an elective in the area of sustainable power and energy that has been delivered in both traditional and online formats, serving large numbers of students in Lexington and Paducah.

Beyond the classroom, Seay is a strong proponent of engineering education through undergraduate research, experiential learning and international opportunities. Recently, Seay was named a Fulbright Specialist and granted an appointment as Visiting Associate Professor at Makerere University in Uganda, where he has taught his sustainability elective and participates in the co-advising of graduate students.

Congratulations to Dr. Seay on being this year’s Lutes Award winner!