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NOW HIRING: Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
The Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in chemical engineering at the assistant professor level with an anticipated start date of Fall 2019.
UK CAER Receives $2.9 Million to Expand Groundbreaking Carbon Capture Research
Kunlei Liu, associate director for research at CAER and associate professor of mechanical engineering, will be a co-principal investigator on this project.
RailCats Making News
It's been a busy semester for the RailCats student organization. Five students attended a national conference, the student organization received a large grant and civil engineering graduate student Travis Watts was named the NURail Center 2018 Student of the Year.
Ionel and Cramer Awarded NSF Grant for New Generation of Electrical Machines and Controls
In recent years, Ionel’s and Cramer’s research on related topics at UK has been funded by NASA, ONR, and directly by leading industrial companies.
See Shelby Browning's Research into Organic Pesticide Production in Underdeveloped Regions
A junior chemical engineering student, Shelby Browning spent the past summer living in Nanyuki, Kenya gathering data for her project.
VIDEO: Pilot-Scale Plant to Extract Rare Earth Elements in Heart of Coal Country
Mining engineering professor Rick Honaker recently launched a pilot-scale processing plant aimed at recovering rare-earth elements from coal and its byproducts in Webster County.
Johnson Awarded NIH Grant for Non-Progressive Dysarthria Therapy
The funding will support a study using modified auditory feedback to elicit involuntary learning in patients with non-progressive dysarthria, a type of speech impairment associated with stroke and traumatic brain injury survivors.
Materials Science and Engineering Program Awarded $450,000 U.S. Department of Education Grant
The GAANN grant will provide funds to support graduate students pursing doctoral degrees in materials science and engineering at UK.
College of Engineering Selects Lyman T. Johnson Award Winners
Mechanical engineering senior Chelsea Elizabeth Robinson and Taunya Phillips (BSCHE '87) were honored at the 28th annual Lyman T. Johnson Torch of Excellence Awards Dinner last month.
Martin Chosen for SEC Travel Program; Will Visit University of Tennessee
Past program participants have been invited to present their research at conferences, been awarded competitive grants and others have secured publications in leading journals.