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University of Kentucky

Engineering Mechanical Engineering Aerospace Engineering Materials Engineering Automotive Engineering Mechanics

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Y. Charles Lu is the H.E. Katterjohn Professor in Engineering and a Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of Kentucky, where he also serves as Director of the Paducah Campus of the Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Materials Engineering from the University of Western Ontario in 2000, complemented by three master’s degrees in mechanical engineering, materials science, and mathematics. Before joining the University of Kentucky in 2006 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dr. Lu worked as a Senior Finite Element Analysis Engineer and Senior Development Engineer at Dana Corporation from 2001 to 2006, and as a Research Scientist at Akron Rubber Development Laboratory from 2000 to 2001. Throughout his career, he has held visiting positions including researcher and scientist at the Air Force Research Laboratory from 2007 to 2010, visiting faculty at the University of Dayton Research Institute in 2012, and visiting professor at Case Western Reserve University in 2013.