Department News

Fall 2021 Dean's List Includes 991 Engineering Students

Jan 11, 2022

To make a Dean’s List, a student must earn a grade-point average of 3.6 or higher and must have earned 12 credits or more in that semester, excluding credits earned in pass-fail classes.

Simone Silvestri Co-PI on $1.5 Million NSF Award to Form Smart and Connected Farms

Dec 9, 2020

The project contributes to Silvestri's work in applying novel communication technologies to cyber-physical systems towards solving interdisciplinary research problems.

Simone Silvestri to Serve as PI on NSF Project for Human Behavior and Energy Management Systems

Sep 4, 2020

The collaborative project will include as Co-PI, UK ECE professor and L. Stanley Pigman Chair in Power, Dan M. Ionel.

Simone Silvestri Wins NSF CAREER Award

Mar 16, 2020

The award is given in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.

Tingting Yu Wins National Science Foundation CAREER Award

Feb 13, 2017

University of Kentucky computer science assistant professor Tingting Yu has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

Backseat Driver: UK Student Works to Make Driverless Vehicles a Reality

Nov 29, 2016

Put Angelo Stekardis behind the wheel and he’s one happy man. Instead of flying from Louisville to Southern California, where Stekardis would begin a summer-long internship, he and his father preferred to make the 31-hour cross-country drive. When the internship ended three months later, Stekardis and his girlfriend took a 48-hour “scenic route” home.

The Scroll From En-Gedi: A High-tech Recovery Mission

Sep 22, 2016

University of Kentucky Professor Brent Seales and his team have further unlocked writings in the ancient En-Gedi scroll — the first severely damaged, ink-based scroll to be unrolled and identified noninvasively.