Kunlei Liu, associate director at CAER and associate professor of mechanical engineering in the UK College of Engineering, is involved with the project
Fortner graduated with a mechanical engineering degree and is a current ME graduate student.
I. S. Jawahir in the Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing and the Department of Mechanical Engineering is Co-PI.
The award recognizes an individual as the absolute best in the country for his academic success, football performance and exemplary leadership.
Assistant professor Martha Grady will lead the project titled "Quantitative Mechanical Phenotyping of Bacterial Biofilms on Implant Surfaces."
Johné Parker, associate professor of mechanical engineering, is a co-PI on the grant.
Mechanical engineering assistant professor Hasan Poonawala and Dale Lombardo from GE Research are Co-PIs.
Nichols, a mechanical engineering graduate student from Taylorsville, Kentucky, will pursue research in aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Dr. Jesse B. Hoagg and Dr. Christoph Brehm are two of this year's three recipients of the 2020 College of Engineering Excellence in Research Award.
Despite the cancellation of the annual UK College of Engineering Awards Banquet sponsored by Tau Beta Pi, each department and Tau Beta Pi have named awardees.