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ECE faculty Dr. Biyun Xie has received a three-year $499,365 award from the NSF for her project titled, “Autonomous Fault-Tolerant Operation of Redundant Robotic Arms.” The project will focus on fault-tolerant strategies to improve the reliability and robustness of robotic arms.

Dr. YuMing Zhang

Named IEEE Fellow

Dr. YuMing Zhang, James R. Boyd Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Kentucky, has been named a 2023 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow for robotics and automations research.

Dr. Aaron Cramer Elected UK Faculty Trustee

ECE Faculty member Dr. Aaron Cramer has been elected to serve as a faculty trustee on the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees.

ECE Faculty, Student part of KRUPS Team Receiving ISS Technology Award

The UK Kentucky Re-entry and Universal Payload System (KRUPS) team, led by ME faculty member Dr. Alex Martin and including ECE Faculty Dr. Bill Smith and ECE PhD student Matt Ruffner received an Innovation and Technology award at the International Space Station Research and Development Conference (ISSRDC) in July 2022.

Alumni

Young Alumni Philanthropy Council Welcomes Members

The UK College of Engineering’s Young Alumni Philanthropy Council (YAPCO) now has 40 members, including 5 ECE Alums. The Council pools funds and uses them to support engineering student programs.

ECE Alum Tyler Cultice receives

NSF Graduate Fellowship

Five University of Kentucky College of Engineering alumni have been selected to receive government-funded National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships, including ECE Alum Tyler Cultice (CPE '21).

Students

SPARK and PEIK EE Researcher Steven Poore

Receives Poster Award at IEEE 2022 PES GM Conference

Steven Poore, a senior studying electrical engineering, has received the Undergraduate Student Award - Second Prize at the 2022 IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting (GM).

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