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The 2025 Outstanding Teaching Awards: Leonie Bettel

Leonie Bettel, a doctoral candidate and graduate assistant in the Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering at the University of Kentucky, is one of nine winners to receive the University of Kentucky’s 2025 Outstanding Teaching Awards.

SEC engineering leadership comes to the Commonwealth

Engineering education leaders from across the Southeastern Conference (SEC) gathered at the University of Kentucky for the annual SEC Engineering Leadership Meeting. The meeting welcomed more than 100 participants, including engineering deans, associate deans, department chairs and other higher educational leaders.

‘Visualize the invisible’: How UK researchers use drones to explore the atmosphere

What once started as a mission to test an aircraft on Mars has turned into research using drones at the University of Kentucky that now helps engineers predict tornadoes.

UK engineering researcher leads NSF‑funded initiative to model heart fibrosis with machine learning

Researchers at the University of Kentucky are teaming up with researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) to develop cutting-edge simulations of heart disease progression. The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded UK and MSU a four-year, $1.2 million collaborative grant titled “SCH: Machine‑Learning Enhanced Computational Models of Cardiac Pathophysiology.”

Announcing the Clifford and Eric Cremers Chair in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

The Pigman College of Engineering is proudly announces the establishment of the Clifford Cremers and Eric Cremers Chair in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. This endowment is made possible through a generous gift from mechanical engineering alumnus, Eric Cremers ’84 and his wife Laura, in honor of Eric’s late father, Clifford Cremers.

UK biomedical engineering researchers are editor’s pick

A team of researchers from the University of Kentucky’s Pigman College of Engineering Joseph Halcomb III, M.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering was selected as an editor’s pick for their paper, "Multi-parametric functional optical spectroscopy to monitor the metabolic and vascular changes in small head and neck tumors in vivo with radiation stress," in the July issue of Biomedical Optics Express.