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Y.T. Cheng Featured by WEKU

Y.T. Cheng, professor of materials science engineering, was interviewed by WEKU's Stu Johnson for a story titled, “Earth Day 2022 signals increased interest in EVs.”

College of Engineering Inducts Six into Hall of Distinction

Lisa Ernst, Uday Deshpande, Don Kelly, Damon Barber, Gregg Coleman and Jesus Caban were inducted into the Hall of Distinction April 7, 2022.

Alexa Eggert, MAJ, United States joins US Space Force

Alexa Eggert (B.S. in Computer Engineering, 2011) is bringing a passion for serving her country and a problem-solving mindset to the US military’s newest frontier.

UK PEIK and EE Team Selected by NASA for ULI Aviation Research Project

Jiangbiao He and Dan M. Ionel, ECE and PEIK faculty, to serve as PI and Co-Po for the UK project.

IEEE PES National Scholarships Awarded to Electrical Engineering and PEIK Students

This year recipients at UK are Hope Anderson and Steven Poore, who are mentored by Ph.D. students Evan Jones and Donovin Lewis, and advised by Professor Dan M. Ionel.

SPARK Lab Wins Best Paper Award at 2021 IEEE ICRERA Conference

The paper is authored by students Hope Anderson, Evan Jones, postdoc Abdullah Al Hadi, and ECE Professor Dan M. Ionel, L. Stanley Pigman Chair in Power.  

Thapliyal wins Best Paper Award for New Technique applying Quantum Computing Technology to Cybersecurity Applications

ECE Faculty member Dr. Himanshu Thapliyal and his students T. Varun and Dinesh Kumar recently won a Best Paper Award for their paper entitled “UTB-SOI Based Adiabatic Computing for Low Power and Secure IoT Devices”, which they presented at the 12th Annual Cyber and Information Security Research (CISR) Conference at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory April 4-6, 2017.

IEEE UK Student Branch Participates in SoutheastCon 2017

Fourteen students from the University of Kentucky College of Engineering traveled to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) SoutheastCon 2017 in Charlotte, N.C. March 30 – April 2. Students participated in a variety of competitions: hardware competition, software competition, ethics competition, student paper competition, t-shirt design competition and website competition.

Doing Good: UK Students Create an App for That

University of Kentucky students devote more than 100,000 hours to service each year. Some students bust out their dance moves #FTK and some deliver meals through the UK Campus Kitchen. UK engineering students are making a difference in their own way — developing software and apps that help people do good.

NASCAR Driver Ben Rhodes Visits UK Solar Car & Formula Kentucky Teams

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver Ben Rhodes visited the University of Kentucky campus on January 28, 2017 to meet with the UK Solar Car and Formula Kentucky racing teams. Rhodes, a Louisville native, even took a turn behind the wheel as the weather permitted taking the vehicles outside.