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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.


Materials Science and Engineering Program Awarded $450,000 U.S. Department of Education Grant

The GAANN grant will provide funds to support graduate students pursing doctoral degrees in materials science and engineering at UK.


College of Engineering Selects Lyman T. Johnson Award Winners

Mechanical engineering senior Chelsea Elizabeth Robinson and Taunya Phillips (BSCHE '87) were honored at the 28th annual Lyman T. Johnson Torch of Excellence Awards Dinner last month.


Martin Chosen for SEC Travel Program; Will Visit University of Tennessee

Past program participants have been invited to present their research at conferences, been awarded competitive grants and others have secured publications in leading journals. 


VIDEO: Student Organization Spotlight: Society of Women Engineers (SWE)

SWE has tripled its membership in the past four years and was named the UK 2016-2017 Student Organization of the Year.


Two CS Students Win Top Poster Awards at Commonwealth Computational Summit

As a part of the prize, Vijay Shah and Atieh Khamesi will be awarded a travel grant to attend the 2018 National Supercomputing Conference (SC'18) in Dallas, Texas.


UK Research Demonstrates TNCs a Major Contributor to Roadway Congestion in San Francisco

The report found that Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) accounted for approximately 50 percent of the rise in congestion in San Francisco between 2010 and 2016.


Distinguished Alumnus Davis Celebrates 100th Patent

Alumnus L. Berkley Davis Jr., who retired in 2016, currently holds 101 patents. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006, the UK College of Engineering’s Hall of Distinction in 2007, the UK Hall of Distinguished Alumni in 2015.


CE508 Class Tours Construction at UK College of Law

Civil engineering assistant professor Gabriel Dadi and his CE508 class endured a steady onslaught of rain and took a site visit to the UK College of Law building currently under construction.