The mechanical engineering associate professor will be associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.
The $270,000 grant is courtesy of NASA’s Flight Opportunities program which supports NASA’s future exploration and science missions.
The $592,839 grant will enable the researchers to study chemical processes that pose a danger to hypersonic aircraft.
An LED light including its internal controller that spent approximately nine years aboard the International Space Station is being studied for negative effects caused by space’s radiation levels.
Twenty University of Kentucky College of Engineering faculty members representing five departments, as well as staff from the Kentucky Transportation Center, participated in a research retreat focused on autonomous systems.
Eighteen students, staff and faculty from UK, along with representatives from three other universities, recently traveled to Alamosa, Colorado, where they participated in ISARRA Flight Week.
The 2007 mechanical engineering graduate will lead mission control for a variety of new operations at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
To improve life on Earth, Twyman Clements (BSME '09, MSME '11) and Gentry Barnett (BSEE '06, MSBME '08) are focused on space.
During the past four years, two entry capsules have entered the atmosphere as a result of the College's partnership with NASA.
During the last weekend in April, 10 mechanical engineering seniors successfully competed in the Alpha class of Speedfest at Oklahoma State University.