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Mary Rezac named new dean of KU School of Engineering
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas has selected Mary Rezac as the next dean of the KU School of Engineering. Rezac currently serves as the dean of Washington State University’s Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture. Her appointment as dean is effective March 1, 2024. ...
KU Engineering to partner on $4M Department of Defense grant
LAWRENCE — A research team from the University of Kansas School of Engineering will collaborate with partner institutions Kansas State University and the University of Tennessee Space Institute on a $4 million Department of Defense-sponsored project to enhance opportunities for students interested in pursuing STEM careers. ...
KU aerospace engineering students earn international design awards
LAWRENCE — Aerospace engineering students from the University of Kansas collected three awards in two major international design competitions, adding to the school’s record number of such honors. ...
Project will harden 5G wireless communication networks for military use with $5 million from NSF
KU Engineering’s annual Tiberti lecture to focus on sustainable leadership
LAWRENCE — The chairman, CEO and founder of the first African American employee stock ownership plan corporation in Missouri will deliver this year’s J.A. Tiberti Family Lecture at the University of Kansas School of Engineering. ...
STARTUP Central project will educate and support biomedical researchers turning innovations into new companies
Students invited to KU Engineering High School Design Competition
LAWRENCE — High school students, start your engines! The future of engineering is revving to race as the University of Kansas School of Engineering hosts its annual STEM competition — High School Design: Race to Innovate — set to take place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 25. ...
KU offers new cybersecurity engineering degree
KU Benefactor Robert Beren Passes Away at 97
Robert Beren, 97, a pioneer and longtime leader in the oil and gas industry in Kansas and benefactor of the School of Engineering, died Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, at his home in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. ...
School of Engineering establishes virtual institute to combat cyberthreats
LAWRENCE — A new virtual institute established at the University of Kansas School of Engineering will train the next generation of military and civilian leaders to better combat the growing threat of cyberattacks and protect the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS). ...
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KU Engineering alumnus Murli Tolaney and son donate $100,000 for environmental engineering scholarship
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas School of Engineering alumnus Murli Tolaney is donating $50,000 to strengthen the Tolaney Family Scholarship he established 15 years ago. His ongoing goal: help KU environmental engineering students follow in his academic and professional footsteps, a career that included building MWH Global into an international...
KU Engineering professor surveys earthquake damage in Turkey
LAWRENCE — When Rémy Lequesne worked his steel-toed boots over the pervasive rubble of apartment buildings, schools, hospitals and dozens of other structures damaged and destroyed by a massive earthquake in early February in Turkey, he faced the real-life devastation already known by so many: more than 50,000 dead, more...
Three to receive KU Engineering Distinguished Engineering Service Award
LAWRENCE — Two alumni and a longtime engineering faculty member from the University of Kansas School of Engineering will be honored with the school’s highest award in a ceremony set for 6 p.m. May 4. ...
KU Engineering Professor Wins NSF CAREER Award for Datacenter Networking Research
An assistant professor at the University of Kansas School of Engineering is the winner of a five-year, $533,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for his research rethinking the internal networking of datacenters — work to reduce latency, cut power consumption and accelerate speeds, all by maximizing the capacities of...
KU Engineering Professor Wins Award for Research into Turbulent Combustion
An assistant professor at the University of Kansas School of Engineering is winner of a three-year, $450,000 grant from the U.S. Air Force for his work using data-science techniques to understand and model combustion physics and to help improve combustion devices’ performance and safety. ...
KU Engineering Professor Wins NSF CAREER Award for Water-Contaminant Research
An assistant professor at the University of Kansas School of Engineering is the winner of a five-year, $560,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for his research into microbes that can break up chemicals in soil and groundwater. ...
KU engineering professor, research leadership team member wins research award
LAWRENCE — A professor of engineering and a member of the senior research leadership team at the University of Kansas is being honored for leading research that fuses biology, materials science and engineering into repairing tissue functions, addressing dental and oral diseases and restoring oral health as well as developing...
21 KU Engineering Faculty Members among Most Cited Researchers in the World, Study Shows
KU, K-State faculty receive Higuchi-KU Endowment Research Achievement Awards
LAWRENCE — Four faculty members at two Kansas universities were named recipients of the Higuchi-KU Endowment Research Achievement Awards, the state higher education system’s most prestigious recognition for scholarly excellence. ...
KU team develops virtual reality therapy system that aids clients, therapists with real-time brain data
KU Engineering SELF Fellows design bus bench prototype for city of Lawrence; additional projects in the works
LAWRENCE — Engineering students at the University of Kansas have designed and built a prototype of a new bench for bus stops in the city of Lawrence. The project was part of a revamped leadership program for undergraduates in the School of Engineering, designed to give students hands-on design and...
Researchers at CReSIS build radar system to extend range of ice surveys and close 'data gaps'
Petroleum engineering professor wins international ‘Breakthrough Research of the Year’ award
KU Engineering student receives prestigious Boren Award
LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas junior from Overland Park has been awarded a David L. Boren Scholarship for $25,000 to study at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, in 2023. ...
KU Engineering professor named editor of newly launched international academic journal focused on radar
LAWRENCE — A professor at the University of Kansas School of Engineering has been named the first editor of a new academic journal. ...
$750K donation to expand operations at KU Engineering’s National Center for Construction Safety
LAWRENCE — An anonymous donor has made a 10-year pledge to help fund ongoing operations at the Craig & Diane Martin National Center for Construction Safety at the University of Kansas School of Engineering. ...
KU Engineering professor wins $100K award to research wastewater intensification
LAWRENCE — A prestigious award from the Water Research Foundation will provide the opportunity for a University of Kansas School of Engineering professor to research a breakthrough approach to improving water quality. ...