JiangBiao He, assistant professor and L. Stanley Pigman Faculty Fellow in the University of Kentucky Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded a three-year competitive grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR).
The University of Kentucky has received $2.4 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) to develop a cost-effective system that will capture carbon dioxide (CO2) and produce hydrogen at natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) power plants.
The UK Computational Electromagnetics (CEM) Group was awarded the 2022 NASA and Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) Director’s Innovation Award. The CEM team members are Rob Adams, John Young, and Cai-Cheng Lu. The three team members are faculty in the UK Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
The STEM Through Authentic Research and Training (START) program at UK is creating a unique pipeline to increase science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) literacy and careers for traditionally underrepresented populations — people of color, individuals with disabilities, students from free or reduced lunch schools, first-generation college students and girls and women in STEM.
Nelson Akafuah, chair of the Department of Engineering, spoke at FAME Live! an event organized by The Federation for Advanced Manufacturing Education (FAME) and The Manufacturing Institute to provide interested companies, schools and regions a chance to see FAME’s program “live” and speak with students, employers and faculty who are living FAME every day.
The 35th Kentucky Professional Engineers in Mining (PEM) Seminar will be held in person and virtually on Friday, August 19, 2022, at the Marriott Griffin Gate Resort in Lexington.
Cassidy Crouch, a Mining Engineering undergraduate student from Trenton, Ohio, was awarded a prestigious Copper Club scholarship for the 2022-2023 school year.
Kaitlynn McGlenon is heading to Uganda this summer with Jeffrey Seay, a University of Kentucky professor at the Paducah Engineering Extended Campus, and Betsy Beymer-Farris, Director of the UK Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program in the UK College of Arts and Sciences.
Aaron Cramer, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elected to serve as a faculty trustee on the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees.
Muralikrishna (Krishna) Chelupati, Senior Associate at Stantec, was selected for the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists (AAEES) 40 Under 40 Recognition Program.
