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Empowering future engineers: Chwatko celebrated as 2025 ‘Great Teacher’

Jun 5, 2025

Malgorzata “Gosia” Chwatko, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering in the Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, is one of the distinguished Great Teacher Award recipients who strives to help her students discover their passions.

2025 Pigman College of Engineering Faculty Awards

May 5, 2025

The annual Pigman College of Engineering Faculty Awards ceremony was held on May 1 at Malone's Prime and Events. Awards were given in the areas of research, service and graduate studies.

Creation of a Femoral Spacer Mold Project

Pigman College of Engineering hosts first ever Capstone Design Showcase

Apr 29, 2025

On April 28, the University of Kentucky Pigman College of Engineering hosted its first ever Capstone Design Showcase in the Gatton Student Center. The event showcased 56 Capstone projects from over 200 students from seven engineering disciplines. Featured disciplines were biomedical engineering, biosystems and agricultural engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer science, electrical and computer engineering, engineering technology and materials engineering.

Pigman College of Engineering inducts 2025 class into Hall of Distinction

Apr 25, 2025

Initiated in 1992, the Hall of Distinction recognizes and honors UK Engineering alumni for exemplary professional accomplishments, outstanding character and an ongoing commitment to community service. Every member of the Hall of Distinction is honored with a plaque in the lobby of the Ralph G. Anderson Mechanical Engineering Building. All members and extended bios are listed here.

Sophomore undergraduate students Gable Rath and Cade Spurlock explain to Dr. Roghanchi how they used AI to help solve a sensor problem while designing an autonomous drone.

Roghanchi, Schafrik, Moradi, Agioutantis, Siddique and Wilson receive grant to implement courses on artificial intelligence in the mining industry.

Apr 7, 2025

UK Pigman College of Engineering researchers in the Department of Mining Engineering Pedram Roghanchi (PI), Zach Agioutantis (Co-I), Ali Moradi (Co-I) and Steven Schafrik (Co-I), Muhammad Abu Bakar Siddique (Co-I) in the Department of Computer Science and Sarah Wilson (Co-I) in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering have received a nearly $442,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for their project, "IGE Track 1: Integrating Artificial Intelligence Technologies into Mining Education."

Agioutantis, Schafrik, Sottile and Beck receive grant to develop automated sensing module for miner safety

Apr 7, 2025

UK Pigman College of Engineering researchers in the Department of Mining Engineering Zach Agioutantis (PI), Steven Schafrik (Co-I) and Joseph Sottile (Co-I) and Matt Beck (Co-I) in the Department of Chemical and Material Engineering have received a nearly $250,000 grant from the Alpha Foundation for the Improvement of Mine Safety and Health Incorporated for their project, "Automated Sensing Module for Enhancing Miner Safety."

Whaley places second in AIChE competition

Apr 1, 2025

Hannah Whaley, a senior majoring in chemical engineering, placed second in the 2025 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) International Congress on Sustainability Science and Engineering (ICOSSE) student presentation competition.

Chawatko, Escobar and Klein, honored as UK 2025 Great Teacher Award winners

Meredith Weber and Steve Shaffer

Mar 5, 2025

Through nominations and testimonials, the UK Alumni Association’s Great Teacher Award honors educators who inspire, challenge and support their students.

DOE funds UK research on critical materials for commercial fusion energy

Lindsay Travis

Mar 4, 2025

The University of Kentucky has been selected to lead a project with $2.3 million in funding over four years from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop next-generation materials critical to commercializing fusion power.

Paterson author on Nature article

Feb 19, 2025

Alexandra "Zan" Paterson, assistant professor with joint appointments in materials engineering and electrical engineering, recently authored, "Improved organic electrochemical transistor stability using solvent degassing and chemical doping," published in Nature Electronics, a monthly online journal from Nature that publishes original research in the field of electronics.

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