News

PPL partners with UK IDEA on award for up to $72 million in federal funding from U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations

Sep 13, 2024

PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) announced today it has executed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) for an award up to $72 million to help fund a groundbreaking carbon dioxide (CO₂) capture research and development project at the company's natural gas combined-cycle generation facility in Louisville, Kentucky.

Community invited as Kentucky Army National Guard lands Black Hawk helicopters on campus Sept. 19

Sep 9, 2024

The University of Kentucky community can witness the Kentucky Army National Guard land Black Hawk utility helicopters on campus beginning at 1 p.m. Sept. 19. The aircraft will be on display through 4 p.m.

The Johnson Central EagleX car (left) and the Somerset Independent Solar Jumpers car (right)

Kentucky high schools sponsored by Pigman College of Engineering receive top ranks at national Solar Car Challenge

Sep 6, 2024

Somerset Independent High School and Johnson Central High School ranked No. 1 and No. 4, respectively, at the summer competition held at the Texas Motor Speedway.

Early in the pandemic, Scott Berry and his team collected and tested wastewater samples on campus to determine the prevalence of COVID. Pete Comparoni | UK Photo

Prestigious NSF award to advance UK research to track emerging pathogens

Sep 3, 2024

Scott Berry, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the UK Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, is the principal investigator of the six-year cooperative agreement projected to be nearly $18 million.

Pigman College of Engineering welcomes 10 new faculty members.

Aug 30, 2024

This fall, the University of Kentucky Pigman College of Engineering welcomed 10 new faculty members.

UK Pigman College of Engineering recommends the formation of the Institute for Decarbonization and Energy Advancement (IDEA)

Aug 30, 2024

UK Pigman College of Engineering recommends the formation of the Institute for Decarbonization and Energy Advancement (IDEA).

UK researcher receives NSF CAREER award to create safe, smart target drone capturing

Aug 6, 2024

Xu Jin, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the UK Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, has received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for his research involving learning-based cooperative control algorithms for multi-agent systems to capture and manage target drones.

Departments of MAE and ECE make history with 5 capsules' successful return from space

Aug 2, 2024

The University of Kentucky is the only university that has had a successful hypersonic reentry, a testament to the leading role the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering plays in in hypersonic research and space exploration.

SpaceLex, UK’s rocketry and propulsion team, takes 1st place at national competition

Jul 30, 2024

SpaceLex, the University of Kentucky Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering’s student-led rocketry team, won first place at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry (FAR-51025UNL) competition in the Mojave Desert in Randsburg, California.

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes 5 Pigman College of Engineering students, alums

Jun 27, 2024

The University of Kentucky Office of Nationally Competitive Awards has announced a total of eight students and recent graduates have been selected as award winners of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Of these eight, five were from the Pigman College of Engineering.

Filter News

Department

Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Mechanical Engineering