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NOW HIRING: Department of Mechanical Engineering hiring five faculty positions for 2019-2020 Academic Year
Four of the positions are tenure-track faculty positions at the assistant professor level, although exceptional candidates at the associate professor level or higher will also be considered.
NOW HIRING: Assistant Professor of Materials Engineering
The Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in materials engineering at the assistant professor level with an anticipated start date of Fall 2019.
NOW HIRING: Assistant, Associate or Full Professor of Biomedical Engineering
The department is hiring up to two tenure-track faculty positions at the level of assistant, associate or full professor, with an anticipated start date of January 1, 2019.
NOW HIRING: Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
The Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in chemical engineering at the assistant professor level with an anticipated start date of Fall 2019.
UK CAER Receives $2.9 Million to Expand Groundbreaking Carbon Capture Research
Kunlei Liu, associate director for research at CAER and associate professor of mechanical engineering, will be a co-principal investigator on this project.
RailCats Making News
It's been a busy semester for the RailCats student organization. Five students attended a national conference, the student organization received a large grant and civil engineering graduate student Travis Watts was named the NURail Center 2018 Student of the Year.
Ionel and Cramer Awarded NSF Grant for New Generation of Electrical Machines and Controls
In recent years, Ionel’s and Cramer’s research on related topics at UK has been funded by NASA, ONR, and directly by leading industrial companies.
See Shelby Browning's Research into Organic Pesticide Production in Underdeveloped Regions
A junior chemical engineering student, Shelby Browning spent the past summer living in Nanyuki, Kenya gathering data for her project.
VIDEO: Pilot-Scale Plant to Extract Rare Earth Elements in Heart of Coal Country
Mining engineering professor Rick Honaker recently launched a pilot-scale processing plant aimed at recovering rare-earth elements from coal and its byproducts in Webster County.
Johnson Awarded NIH Grant for Non-Progressive Dysarthria Therapy
The funding will support a study using modified auditory feedback to elicit involuntary learning in patients with non-progressive dysarthria, a type of speech impairment associated with stroke and traumatic brain injury survivors.