• 150 Years and Counting

    150 Years and Counting

    In 1872, Auburn got a new name. And a new purpose. The world hasn’t been the same since.

    This year marks the 150th anniversary of Auburn’s reorganization under the Morrill Act from East Alabama Male College into the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, which established the Colleges of Agriculture and Engineering.

    On a late Friday afternoon in September, in the shadow of the building where Auburn’s cornerstone instructional programs were born, the year-long celebration began.

  • The Pipeline

    The Pipeline

    It was late September 2020. They’d ordered 300 coloring books, just in case.

    It would probably be too many — they were hoping it might get 100 people to register — but Sydney Riley, outreach administrator for the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering’s Office of Recruitment, K-12 Outreach and Scholarships since 2017, figured she could take the leftovers to local classrooms now that schools were returning to in-person attendance. Teachers would probably like that. 

  • Big IDEAS

    Big IDEAS

    The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering and Boeing have enjoyed a longstanding partnership in support of Auburn University students. Beyond funding scholarships and supporting underrepresented students and student organizations, Boeing is now providing opportunities for dozens of Auburn Engineering undergraduates to obtain hands-on, real-world design experience on groundbreaking aerospace projects.

  • AI @ AU

    AI @ AU

    Artificial intelligence (AI) is already impacting our lives in significant ways. You have a cell phone, right? Data received by all those crazy apps on your home screen provide information that otherwise couldn’t be tracked at once.

Recent Articles

Growing Places

Growing Places

Auburn University’s Board of Trustees approved a project in September to build a Gulf Coast Engineering Research Station in Orange Beach. A month later, the university expanded its footprint and opened its doors to a new facility in Huntsville in October with the grand-opening celebration of the Auburn University Research and Innovation Campus.

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10 Million Miles of Innovation

10 Million Miles of Innovation

The National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT)’s Test Track recently crossed 10 million miles driven. Opened in 2000 as a testing facility for asphalt research, the track has provided pavement engineers across the USA with an outdoor laboratory where they can experiment with pavement designs while avoiding risks associated with damaged pavements on real-world roadways.

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It’s My Job: Joseph Pelfrey

It’s My Job: Joseph Pelfrey

“My priority role is to assist our center director, Jody Singer, in the day-to-day leadership of all center activities. This includes ensuring we are delivering on our mission assignments, managing the budget, risk and schedule for successful programmatic execution.”

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Be the Creed: Tylan Rudolph

Be the Creed: Tylan Rudolph

I believe in honesty and truthfulness, without which I cannot win the respect and confidence of my fellow men.

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Be the Creed: Molly Hughes

Be the Creed: Molly Hughes

I believe in my Country, because it is a land of freedom and because it is my own home, and that I can best serve that country by “doing justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly with my God.”.

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Be the Creed: Shannon Price

Be the Creed: Shannon Price

I believe in education, which gives me the knowledge to work wisely and trains my mind and my hands to work skillfully.

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Be the Creed: Casey Robinson Troutman

Be the Creed: Casey Robinson Troutman

I believe that this is a practical world and that I can count only on what I earn. Therefore, I believe in work, hard work.

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Faculty Highlights: Fall / Winter  2022

Faculty Highlights: Fall / Winter 2022

Notable faculty achievements from across the college.

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The 2022 Auburn Alumni Engineering Council award winners included Outstanding Young Auburn Engineer Kelly Roberts, ’05 and ’07 civil engineering; Distinguished
Auburn Engineer Jim Cooper, ’81 civil engineering; Distinguished Auburn Engineer John MacFarlane, ’72 mechanical engineering; Outstanding Young Auburn Engineer
McClain Towery, ’03 civil engineering; Distinguished Auburn Engineer Nicole Faulk, ’96 and ’99 mechanical engineering; and Superior Service Angie Lemke, retired,
dean’s assistant. Not pictured is Distinguished Auburn Engineer TK Mattingly, ’58 and ’86 aerospace engineering.

The Award Goes To

The 2022 Auburn Alumni Engineering Council award winners include…

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Happenings: Fall / Winter 2022

Happenings: Fall / Winter 2022

The latest news from around the college.

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