UK Electrical and Computer Engineering

Summer Newsletter 2022

Meeting students "where they are"

ECE Professor Janet Lumpp was recently featured on UKNow for her ongoing commitment to teaching and student success.

Read the full UKNow article

Faculty and Research News

ECE Faculty Receive Johnson Space Center NASA Innovation Award

ECE faculty Robert Adams, John Young and CaiCheng Lu have been awarded the Johnson Space Center Director's Innovation Award for exceptional contributions to the advancement of the NASA JSC computational electromagnetics software, GEMINI.

The award recognizes both individuals and teams of individuals who have shown innovation through the development or implementation of positive changes in the operations or the programs of NASA or JSC and in business practices, science, technology, engineering, medicine, and education within the Center. Innovation may refer to incremental and emergent or radical and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations.

Dan Lau Receives FY 21 DoD DEPSCoR Award

ECE Professor Dan Lau has received an FY2021 DEPSCoR competition award, for his project "Learning Multilayer and Hypergraph Networks From Data". Lau was one of only 23 awards granted nationally, and will receive $600,000 over 3 years, together with collaborators at the University of Delaware.

Read the DoD Release

UK ECE Faculty Selected to Participate in

NASA University Leadership Initiative

ECE faculty Jiangbiao He, L. Stanley Pigman Faculty Fellow, and Dan M. Ionel, L. Stanley Pigman Chair in Power, have been selected to serve as PI and Co-Po for the UK’s participation in NASA’s University Leadership Initiative, which has a research focus on sustainable aviation.

Peng Wang Wins

SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Award

ECE faculty member Peng Wang has received the 2022 SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Award. This award recognizes manufacturing engineers, age 35 or younger, who have made exceptional contributions and accomplishments in the manufacturing industry.

Student News

James P. Carmichael Awarded SMART Scholarship

This award provides students with full tuition for up to five years, mentorship, summer internships, a stipend and full-time employment with the Department of Defense after graduation

Engineering Spotlight

ECE student Savannah Lewis

"Knowing that I’m helping this profession become more diverse, by increasing representation, makes me extremely proud."

Read Savannah's Story

Alumni News

BSEE Alumni Gregg Coleman and Uday Deshpande

Inducted into Engineering Hall of Distinction

Gregg Coleman is the President of InLine Automation Group in Louisville, a production line company that operates in three states. Gregg supports scholarships in the UK College of Engineering, Children of Fallen Patriots and is a supporter of the Kentucky Science Center and member of the UK ECE Advisory Board.

Uday Deshpande is the Chief Technical Officer of D&V Electronics, which produces solutions for test components and modules used in electric vehicles. Deshpande speaks five languages, has ten U.S. patents awarded or pending and several publications. Deshpande is an active member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers

Karen and Stanley Pigman Donate

$11.25M to College of Engineering

“It’s all about students,” says Stanley Pigman. “We believe in them. We hope our gifts change the lives of many, many students and help them get ready for the workforce.”