Departments

F. Joseph Halcomb III, M.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering focus is engineering for human health. Biomedical engineers advance human health and solve healthcare challenges.

The Department of Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering integrates aspects of traditional engineering fields like mechanical, chemical and civil engineering with biological, agricultural and environmental applications. The University of Kentucky offers the only undergraduate degree in biosystems engineering in the state.

The field of chemical engineering involves mathematics, chemistry and physics. Students take courses on thermodynamics, mass transfer, reactor design and chemical process design. The chemical engineering degree program is housed in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering.

Focus areas of our civil engineering program include construction engineering, environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, materials engineering, structural engineering, transportation engineering and water resources engineering.

Computer science students are educated on how to identify and solve computational problems in all areas of modern life. Courses focus on using technical skills and creativity to design and build software, formulate solutions to computing problems and invent new and better ways of using computers.

The Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering teaches electrical engineering students to find innovative ways to use electricity, electronic materials and electrical phenomena to improve people’s lives. Computer engineering students in the department take part in research on power and energy, computer architectures, micro and nano scale devices and materials, machine learning, and computational electromagnetics.

In the Engineering Technology Department, students can pursue either a Bachelor of Science in Lean Systems Engineering Technology or a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering Technology. Students must first obtain an Associate of Applied Science at Bluegrass Technical Community College.

Materials engineers are responsible for the preparation, fabrication, selection, use and reuse of existing materials and for the development of new and improved materials. Materials engineering students go on to work in the fields of pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, prosthetics and more.

The Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering offers mechanical engineering, the broadest of all engineering programs, combining mathematics with specialized knowledge of the thermal and energy sciences, solid and fluid mechanics, and the properties of materials. The University of Kentucky offers the only undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering in the state, led by faculty with research expertise in controls, propulsion and hypersonics.

The Department of Mining Engineering focuses on the materials used for roads, buildings, computers, cell phones and more. Mining engineering students learn about geotechnical engineering, explosives engineering, ventilation, mine power systems, environmental engineering and extractive metallurgy.