The Department of Civil Engineering in the UK Pigman College of Engineering received a generous donation of $10,000 from Ralph Palmer, founder and president emeritus of Palmer Engineering Co., which promises to make a profound impact on the educational landscape and foster an enriched learning experience for present and future students.
The story of how the UK Engineering Paducah Campus was born out of a supercharged phone call in a Lockheed Martin office, from the engineer who took the impromptu leap of logic.
Yang Xiao first UK faculty to receive an award from the NSF's Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program.
The 2023 Civil Engineering Awards Banquet, which took place on September 16, 2023 at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Lexington/UK Coldstream, recognizes outstanding alumni and industry leaders in the civil and construction engineering industry. Each year, the Department of Civil Engineering recognizes individuals for the Young Construction Engineer of the Year award, the Young Civil Engineer of the Year, the Construction Management Founders Society Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Career Achievement Award.
Glennon Orthober, a civil engineering senior, presented his research at the KY/TN Water Professionals Conference in Memphis, Tennessee.
Power and Energy Institute (PEIK) researchers exhibited and reported at the conference in Detroit, Michigan and took home a best student paper award.
Caigang Zhu, an assistant professor in the F. Joseph Halcomb III, M.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded $2,067,823 over five years from the National Institutes of Health for his work on optical metabolic spectroscopy and imaging tools for cancer research.
On Sept. 8, a dedication ceremony was held to celebrate the renaming of the College of Engineering in honor of Stanley and Karen Pigman and to recognize their indelible impact.
Effective July 31, 2023, Todd Boggess resigned from his position of president of Secat, Inc., after 22 years of service to the laboratory and its operation. To succeed Boggess in leadership of Secat, the Board of Directors appointed Nicholas Nanninga to interim general manager, effective Aug. 1.
Sean Bailey, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, is working to get ahead of the increasing threat of clear air turbulence.
