Department News

Qinglin Zhang is on the new website of our department (Chemical and Materials Engineering)

Dr. Cheng’s research group is a member of the Kentucky’s EPSCoR (NSF’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR)) project from the National Science Foundation (award details).

NSF Announcement: NSF invests in science and engineering infrastructure across the nation UKnow: Kentucky Awarded $20 Million to Grow ‘New Energy Economy’ Youtube: EPSCoR Funding Drives Kentucky’s New Knowledge-based Economy

Congratulations to Ilona Hoffmann!

She successfully passed the Ph.D. defense for her work on “Magnesium-Titanium Alloys for Biomedical Applications”.

Dr. Cheng’s group is a member of the lightweight metals institute that former VP of GM, Alan Taub is leading

News from the Detroit News: White House to unveil manufacturing institute headquartered in Canton News from the Lane Report Kentucky helps launch light-materials manufacturing institute

Congratulations to materials engineering professor Y.T. Cheng

Congratulations to materials engineering professor Y.T. Cheng, who will lead an automotive battery research project granted to the Commonwealth of Kentucky by Ford. News in ThinkKentucky.com 

Thanksgiving group dinner at bd’s Mongolian Grill

Dr. Yue Qi from General Motors R&D center visited our lab

Professor Y.T. Cheng Elected Fellow of the Materials Research Society.

Source from: UK College of Engineering: http://www.engr.uky.edu/news/2013/03/professor-y-t-cheng-elected-fellow-of-the-materials-research-society/ 

We had a happy time with the Departmental Advisory Committee’s visit and graduate students poster session

Peizhen was introducing our brand-new Nano-indentation Equipment to the Advisory Committee members. Qinglin was introducing his fancy battery research to one of the committee members.

Congratulations to Dr. JC Li’ s graduation.

Graduation Ceremony, Convention Center, Lexington, May 2012(Left to Right: JC, YT, Rutooj)