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Blue Dawn Competes at Design/Build/Fly Competition

The University of Kentucky Design/Build/Fly (DBF) team’s “Blue Dawn” competed against nearly 100 student teams from around the world in the 2011 Cessna Aircraft Company/Raytheon Missile Systems Design/Build/Fly Competition at TIMPA Field in Tucson, AZ April 15-17. This was the 15th year the competition was held. Each year, teams must design a lightweight aircraft to [...]

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Project Lead the Way: Preparing the Next Generation of Wildcats

What started out as a task force in 2006 to find a solution for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in the K-12 sector has become a program for middle school and high school students known as Project Lead the Way. It is a program that opens the door of option and opportunity, and [...]

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Newest Mechanical Engineering Graduate Proves Hard Work Equals Success

If you were introduced to one of NASA’s aerospace engineers, what assumptions might you make? Near-genius who romped through advanced calculus? Someone who daydreams about physics? A rare individual who designs complex structures with the ease of a child building a sand castle? If so, you haven’t met Austin Lovan. “I’m different than a lot [...]

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Class Notes

Ed Glasscock, BSCE 1966, serves as chairman-emeritus and co-chairman of Frost Brown Todd’s mergers and acquisitions practice.  He was awarded an honorary degree by Bellarmine University at its spring commencement. He resides in Louisville, Ky. Maj. Gen. (USAF, Ret) Earnest O. Robbins II, BSCE 1969, has been appointed President at Parsons MENA+ (Middle East, North [...]

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Letter From the Editor

Bob Edwards