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Engineering Quad with Solar Car and Tent.

Fall 2024 Dean's List includes 1,009 engineering students

Feb 11, 2025

Pigman College of Engineering Spring 2025 Dean’s List

‘UK at the Half’: UK leads collaborative Kentucky climate resiliency project

Jan 17, 2025

The University of Kentucky is leading a five-year, $20 million Research Infrastructure Improvement award from the National Science Foundation’s Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NSF EPSCoR)with $4 million in additional funding provided by the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development. The project is titled “Climate Resilience through Multidisciplinary Big Data Learning, Prediction & Building Response Systems (CLIMBS).”

Bryson elected to NIHS Board of Directors

Nov 25, 2024

The National Institute for Hometown Security is a non-profit organization that protects and preserves critical infrastructure in the rural and underserved communities across the nation.

How Kelly Pennell is engineering a safer world

Nov 4, 2024

Environmental / Water Quality Engineering

Kelly Pennell, Ph.D., professor and Earl Parker Robinson Chair in the Department of Civil Engineering and director of the UK Superfund Research Center, discusses her research on pollution and its impacts on the environment and public health.

Unprecedented flooding devastated parts of Eastern Kentucky in July 2022, including Hindman in Knott County. UK researchers want to be better prepared for flooding. Hilary Brown

UK leads study focusing on flash flooding in Appalachia, preparation, prevention

Oct 14, 2024

A group of UK researchers are partners on the four-year project, “The Flooding in Appalachian Streams and Headwaters Initiative: Mitigating impacts of climate change and flash flooding in Appalachia," which aims to better understand and be better prepared for future flooding events.

Ariel Robinson presenting at Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium

Ph.D. candidate gives outstanding performance at annual symposium

Oct 2, 2024

Ariel Robinson, Ph.D. candidate in the University of Kentucky Department of Civil Engineering, was honored with the award for most outstanding platform presenter at the Kentucky Water Resources Institute Annual Symposium.

Harik and Peiris receive new grant from Kentucky Transportation Cabinet

Sep 16, 2024

The three-year $315,000 grant will support research on seismically deficient bridges on and over the interstates and parkways in Western Kentucky.

CLIMBS: Change of climate: Professors lead team to find out what’s heating up in Kentucky

Aug 9, 2024

A Q&A with Michael M. McGlue, professor in the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, and Sebastian Bryson, chair of civil engineering in the Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, about the $20 million collaborative project to build climate resilience in Kentucky.

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.

Two young women building a tower structure with wood craft materials.

SEEK Welcomes High School Students for its Inaugural Engineering Summer Camp

Jun 27, 2024

SEEK allows students to explore various facets of civil engineering that deal with infrastructure and infrastructure systems.

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