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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.

Herrin elected Institute of Noise Control Engineering Fellow

Jun 25, 2024

The Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the USA (INCE-USA) Board of Directors has elected University of Kentucky’s David Herrin, professor of vibrations and acoustics in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, an INCE Fellow.

From left: Asa O'Neal and Harrison Yang. The Wildcats were selected from a pool of 1,353 undergraduates nominated by 446 institutions. Photos provided.

2 UK engineering students awarded 2024-25 Goldwater Scholarship

May 6, 2024

Asa O’Neal, in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Harrison Yang, in the F. Joseph Halcomb III, M.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering, are 2024-25 recipients of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.

UK grad ‘soars back’ after 40 years, becoming 1st to earn Ph.D. in aerospace engineering

Apr 30, 2024

“When I started at UK almost 45 years ago, I could not have imagined in my mind — nor even in any theoretical parallel universe — that I would be getting an aerospace Ph.D. from here,” Sinha said. “Much less to be the first recipient of the degree with an aerospace major. When you get older, you start to think about legacy, and this is a legacy that will endure.”

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