During the Virtual Evening with Electrical & Computer Engineering, you’ll meet current students, professors, and alumni from the UK Electrical and Computer Engineering department on Zoom to learn more about the majors, the classes, internships and co-ops, career paths, and more.
A team of students and faculty from the University of Kentucky Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering will make history in Norway, launching a UK-developed payload as part of NASA’s GHOST spaceflight mission.
Thanks to the generous support of Stanley and Karen Pigman and Kentucky’s Research Challenge Trust Fund (RCTF), engineering researchers are receiving additional annual funding to enhance the research priorities and programs of the Pigman College of Engineering. Established in 2024, the Lighthouse Beacon Foundation Endowment supports faculty, research, graduate students, facilities and research infrastructure in the Pigman College of Engineering. This year, the endowment made $235,000 in funds available for distribution.
The Todds continue to support the university in myriad ways, including a recent gift to permanently endow the Patricia Brantley Todd Endowed Fund for Excellence, which supports UK Cooperative Extension Service programs and a biannual award for exemplary service by faculty and staff.
Biyun Xie, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, has received a prestigious U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to advance research in human-robot shared control for robotic telemanipulation.
On Sept. 12, the University of Kentucky will induct 20 alumni into the 2025 Hall of Distinguished Alumni, including five Pigman College of Engineering alumni. The alumni will be honored for their meaningful contributions to the Commonwealth, nation and the world.
The University of Kentucky’s Office of Transdisciplinary Educational approaches to advance Kentucky (TEK) has announced the TEK Faculty Fellows for the 2025-26 academic year. A critical mission of TEK is the development of new transdisciplinary courses and the reimagining of existing courses to emphasize one or more essential employability skills. To accomplish this, TEK is leveraging the expertise of a new cohort of TEK Faculty Fellows.
A University of Kentucky researcher is developing electro-photonic circuits, a technology that could dramatically reduce the energy demands of computing and communication in the age of artificial intelligence.
Six Pigman College of Engineering faculty members received National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awards, the NSF’s prestigious award in support of early-career faculty, in the 2025 funding cycle. This was the Pigman College of Engineering's highest annual number of NSF CAREER awardees in the 30-year history of the program. In addition, the college boasted a 75% success rate for CAREER awards in the 2025 funding cycle.
Alexandra F. Paterson’s research paves the way for more reliable and innovative technologies that could benefit health care, manufacturing and everyday life. For her work, she has earned two prestigious national awards for early-career faculty: the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award.
