B.S. in civil engineering, 1977 Ruth Coleman is a pioneering civil and structural engineer whose nearly five-decade career advanced infrastructure resilience across the nation and around the world — while breaking barriers for generations to follow.
B.S. in chemical engineering, 1981 Phil Foster is an industry-changing innovator whose career has shaped modern microelectronics manufacturing, advanced sensor technology and semiconductor processing across global markets. A native of Paducah, Foster earned his Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from the University of Kentucky in 1981. He went on to complete coursework at universities in California and Texas in finance, business and executive management.
B.S. in civil engineering, 1994 | M.S. in civil engineering, 1995 JoAnn Browning is a nationally recognized leader in civil engineering whose career reflects an unwavering commitment to resilient infrastructure, research excellence and transformative academic leadership.
B.S. in civil engineering, 1980 | M.S. in civil engineering, 1982 Greg Heitzman is a nationally respected civil and environmental engineering leader who has strengthened drinking water treatment, infrastructure renewal and utility management across Kentucky.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has elected Johné Parker, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and associate dean for access and community engagement, as an ASME Fellow in recognition of her exceptional engineering achievements and contributions to the engineering profession and to ASME.
For more than three decades, the University of Kentucky's Lean Systems Program has helped businesses and organizations across the state meet workflow demands — positioning Kentucky as a national leader in operational excellence by increasing productivity, reducing waste and strengthening workforce engagement, while maintaining quality and competitiveness.
The University of Kentucky is well-represented on a list of the most-cited researchers in the world. In a database compiled by Stanford University in a partnership with Elsevier, 125 current UK scientists and scholars appear among the top 2% of the most-cited researchers across 22 disciplines. Of those 125 scientists and scholars, 21 are UK Pigman College of Engineering faculty.
Martha Grady, Ph.D., a Lighthouse Beacon Foundation Scholar and an associate department chair in the Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, is leading a multidisciplinary team to investigate how 3D-printed titanium can be engineered to resist harmful bacteria.
