PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) announced today it has executed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) for an award up to $72 million to help fund a groundbreaking carbon dioxide (CO₂) capture research and development project at the company's natural gas combined-cycle generation facility in Louisville, Kentucky.
The University of Kentucky community can witness the Kentucky Army National Guard land Black Hawk utility helicopters on campus beginning at 1 p.m. Sept. 19. The aircraft will be on display through 4 p.m.
Somerset Independent High School and Johnson Central High School ranked No. 1 and No. 4, respectively, at the summer competition held at the Texas Motor Speedway.
Scott Berry, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the UK Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, is the principal investigator of the six-year cooperative agreement projected to be nearly $18 million.
UK Pigman College of Engineering recommends the formation of the Institute for Decarbonization and Energy Advancement (IDEA).
This fall, the University of Kentucky Pigman College of Engineering welcomed 10 new faculty members.
Xu Jin, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the UK Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, has received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for his research involving learning-based cooperative control algorithms for multi-agent systems to capture and manage target drones.
The University of Kentucky is the only university that has had a successful hypersonic reentry, a testament to the leading role the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering plays in in hypersonic research and space exploration.
SpaceLex, the University of Kentucky Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering’s student-led rocketry team, won first place at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry (FAR-51025UNL) competition in the Mojave Desert in Randsburg, California.
The University of Kentucky Office of Nationally Competitive Awards has announced a total of eight students and recent graduates have been selected as award winners of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Of these eight, five were from the Pigman College of Engineering.