UK Engineering

Official account of the University of Kentucky Pigman College of Engineering.

[UK Center for Applied Energy Research @UKCAER]

From coal to bourbon byproducts, Rodney Andrews and UK CAER researchers are finding new paths to advanced carbon materials for batteries, aerospace and more. See how UK innovation moves research from the lab toward industry. @ukyengineering @uky_innovate https://t.co/Aafie1T6uk

[University of Kentucky @universityofky]

At the University of Kentucky, turning laboratory discoveries into real-world solutions is a core mission.

Read more about Dr. Rodney Andrews research on converting fossil energy resources and organic waste streams into advanced carbon materials here: https://t.co/D0N3kjkSkS

@ukyengineering @UKCAER @ResearchKY
#UKyResearch #CollegeOfEngineering #AppliedEnergyResearch

[UK Research @ResearchKY]

Mining engineer Jack Groppo (@ukyengineering & @UKCAER) and historian Martha Groppo (@eku) spent a lifetime learning from each other.

Now the father-daughter duo is bringing mining, history and culture together in the classroom.
https://t.co/zxl50Apo36

[UK Engineering @ukyengineering]

The University of Kentucky Pigman College of Engineering has been selected to receive a $1 million prize from the @ENERGY @DOECMEI through the Providing Opportunities for Specialized Education in Critical Technologies (PROSPECT) Planning Prize.

UK is one of 16 universities to receive the PROSPECT Planning Prize, which will advance nationwide efforts to grow the skilled workforce required to produce, process, recover and recycle critical minerals in the United States while creating good-paying jobs.

https://t.co/B7j9no6j0f

[UK Center for Applied Energy Research @UKCAER]

Congratulations to Alexandra Paterson, Ph.D., assistant professor for @ukyengineering , for being named to the 2026 Nature Awards Inspiring Women in Science shortlist. The winner is scheduled to be announced Nov. 3. Read the full story at UKNow: https://t.co/5uep1SMt9M

[UK Engineering @ukyengineering]

🚨📰 BIG NEWS, CIVIL ENGINEERS! The University of Kentucky Pigman College of Engineering is now offering a fully online Master of Science in civil engineering!

Designed for civil engineers at all stages in life, the flexible, 30-credit-hour program allows you to earn a graduate degree while continuing your career. And the single online tuition rate applies regardless of your location!

https://t.co/l7mJuXl98B

[UK Engineering @ukyengineering]

Join us for Engineering Takes Flight on Oct. 9 at 2 p.m. at the UK Sports Club Field! 🚁

https://t.co/fOyMKvAMcd

[SEC Academics @SECAcademics]

We compete on the field. 🏈
We innovate beyond it. 👊

#ItJustMeansMore

[UK Research @ResearchKY]

@ukyengineering researchers are part of a national team selected by @ENERGY to help advance the “Mine of the Future” initiative, developing safer, smarter and more connected mining technologies through real-world testing and innovation.
https://t.co/ztRxRfQRo8

[UK Research @ResearchKY]

🚀Dan Fries, a @ukyengineering assistant professor and aerospace engineering researcher, has earned a @NASA Early Career Faculty Award to develop advanced diagnostic technology for studying the extreme conditions spacecraft face during atmospheric entry.
https://t.co/uZTGKchelj

[UK Transportation @UKParking]

Admin Drive North, from Patterson Drive to South Limestone, will be closed on Friday, Sept. 4, and Tuesday, Sept. 8.
Drivers should use the detour via Patterson Drive and Rose Street.
Pedestrians: There will be no front access to Frazee Hall or the Student Center Harris Ballroom, but ADA access to Frazee will still be available through the rear ramp. Administration Drive is expected to reopen over Labor Day weekend. For more details: https://t.co/eOBwrBYLb9

[KY Geological Survey @KGSNews]

When #KGS seismologists Seth Carpenter and Jon Schmidt noticed that a nearby pump was degrading the recordings of the surface strong-motion accelerometer at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, they reached out to UK mechanical engineering students to develop a solution as part of their senior CAPSTONE project.

KGS received a solution via a vibration damping system and the students gained hands-on experience working alongside KGS geologists on a consequential, real-world problem. That's what we call a win-win.

Shown here are the mechanical engineering seniors - Robby Smith, Sam Teutsch, Seth Burnett, and Leigh Ann Taylor - and their research poster "Design of Vibration Damping System."

@ukyengineering #Kentucky #geology #geoscience #engineering

[UK Engineering @ukyengineering]

Fazleena Badurdeen, Ph.D., Earl Parker Robinson Chair Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and director of the graduate certificate in manufacturing systems engineering, has been named the director of the Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing. 👏

Read more here: https://t.co/4U68OPleG7

[UK Engineering @ukyengineering]

🫵 Do you know an outstanding alum who should be enshrined in the Pigman College of Engineering’s Hall of Distinction?

🗳️Nominate them at https://t.co/hLqIG8P0AL by Oct. 15th!

The Hall of Distinction recognizes and honors those alumni who have demonstrated distinguished engineering professional accomplishments, outstanding character and commitment to community service.

[Journal of Physiology @JPhysiol]

Hossein Sharifi (@ukyengineering) and co-authors conducted a multiscale finite element #modelling study and examined the role of #baroreflex feedback loop in predictions of left 'ventricular growth 💻️ 🫀

Read the research 👇️
https://t.co/GEgnoOY8KE

[University of Kentucky @universityofky]

As the United States pushes to accelerate innovation, researchers from the University of Kentucky will play a leading role in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (@ENERGY @ScienceUnderSec) Genesis Mission.

🔍 Principal investigators:

· Sean Bailey, Ph.D., (@ukyengineering), “A Physically Informed Neural Network for Power-Grid Resilience to Extreme Wind Events”

· Chad Risko, Ph.D., (@ukarts_sciences), “From Edisonian Optimization to Predictive Molecular Design: AI-Driven Discovery and Engineering of Advanced Semiconductor Interfaces”

“By harnessing these new, powerful tools, we are advancing the boundaries of science and ensuring that Kentucky remains at the forefront of what might be the most rapid period of innovation in human history” said UK President Eli Capilouto.

📰 Read more about the 6 UK researchers selected for historic DOE ‘Genesis Mission’: https://t.co/svzjtwjNXA

#UKy #UniversityofKentucky

[UK Engineering @ukyengineering]

As greenhouse agriculture continues to expand to meet growing food demands, Biyun Xie, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is developing new technologies to produce healthier crops more efficiently, while also reducing the time and labor required to grow them.

Xie is the principal investigator on a nearly $1.2 million @NSF grant to develop an autonomous robotic system that could transform how greenhouse-grown tomatoes are monitored and evaluated. 🍅🦾

https://t.co/SmjMGC9zgl

#agtech #agriculture #greenhouse #robotics #engineering

[University of Kentucky @universityofky]

The Herculaneum scrolls are among the most iconic and inaccessible of the world’s vast collection of damaged manuscripts.

Since being burned and carbonized by the catastrophic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE, they’ve been deemed “unreadable.”

Until now.

Through a groundbreaking, repeatable AI framework engineered by @ukyengineering professor, Dr. Brent Seales and his team, we are officially unlocking secrets that have been hidden for two millennia.

Read more about the breakthrough: https://t.co/dc64LJzYBu

#UKy #UniversityofKentucky #CollegeofEngineering

[Video Description: A montage of news headlines, archaeological sites, and historic architecture in Italy, highlighting a breakthrough in reading ancient artifacts. Dr. Brent Seales and Dr. Seth Parker present their research to an audience in a grand, ornately decorated hall, detailing a three-step AI workflow consisting of scanning, segmentation, and ink detection. The video concludes with close-up shots of carbonized, stone-like scroll fragments resting on a white cushion.]

[UK Engineering @ukyengineering]

Recently, students in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering traveled to @NASAWallops in Wallops Island, Virginia. 🧑‍🚀🚀

The students, along with Assistant Professor Dan Fries, were there to integrate the latest Kentucky Re-entry Universal Payload System (KRUPS) capsule into a sounding rocket, as a preliminary test for for a future orbital entry mission.

KRUPS is an innovative space capsule program developed by University of Kentucky Engineering students and researchers. Designed as an inexpensive and highly adaptable flying testbed, its primary mission is to gather critical flight data on atmospheric re-entry conditions and validate thermal protection systems.

Since its inception, KRUPS has been worked on by over 100 UK Engineering graduate and undergraduate students. In the maiden voyage from Earth to the International Space Station in December 2021, KRUPS capsules achieved three historic firsts:

1️⃣ The first university-built entry capsule to successfully transit a planetary atmosphere.
2️⃣ The first hypersonic vehicle flown by a university.
3️⃣ The first 3D-printed heat shield used in an entry mission.

#NASA #EngineeringExcellence