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Into the Lab: Electrical and Computer

Electrical and computer engineering seniors working in faculty member Lloyd Riggs’ mine detection lab are constructing a senior design project with major real-world objectives — an Autonomous Nautical Radiation Assessment Vessel, or ANRAV, that can be used for tracking radiation spills in the ocean and other bodies of water. Powered […]

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Into the Lab: Industrial and systems

Into the Lab: Industrial and systems

Working under the direction of faculty member Richard Sesek, Celal Gungor and Ruoliang “Rio” Tang studied the relationship between lower back geometry to a subject’s gross anthropometry, or characteristics such as their height, weight, gender or age. Gungor and Tang studied 3T MRI scans taken at Auburn’s MRI Research Center […]

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Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project

Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project

Two Auburn Engineering graduate students are participating in a different kind of educational experience in Alabama’s correctional facilities. What they have found is that education goes both ways, and that they are learning as much as they are teaching. It was an average Tuesday in Elmore, Ala., when Eliza Banu, […]

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Beyond Borders: One chemical engineer’s journey from the sugar cane factories of Sudan to an award-winning lab in Qatar

Beyond Borders: One chemical engineer’s journey from the sugar cane factories of Sudan to an award-winning lab in Qatar

Don’t ask Engineering Dean Chris Roberts about Auburn graduate students unless you’re ready for a deeply devoted reply about the quality of research they conduct, the innovation and expertise they bring to campus, and their numerous contributions to the changing global economy as alumni. You really shouldn’t ask him about Nimir Elbashir, […]

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Payton’s Place

Payton’s Place

It’s tucked into a corner of Wiggins Mechanical Engineering Hall, but it’s far from small. It serves every department in the College of Engineering, and has even seen students from Auburn’s art department. Known to students as the DML, it is more formally named the Design and Manufacturing Laboratory. To […]

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Hovering Tigers take on the Tide

Hovering Tigers take on the Tide

Hovercrafts are still a figment of imagination to many, a vehicle that only exists in movies or in high-tech laboratories. In reality, hovercrafts have been around for more than 50 years, and few know that Auburn University has been building and racing them for a full decade. They are nothing […]

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Hall of Fame

Hall of Fame

In its 25th year, the State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame honors the outstanding accomplishments and contributions of individuals, corporations, institutions and projects that bring significant recognition to the state. In February, seven new individuals were inducted into the Hall of Fame – five of whom are Auburn Engineering […]

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It’s my job: Charlie Ping

It’s my job: Charlie Ping

Few professions are so overtly competitive as auto racing – the cameras follow the leaders and it’s all about winning. Finding a spot on a good team or support organization is just as hard in the small fraternity of race engineers who fly from track to track during the season. […]

by × June 4, 2013 ×
Heart of the matter

Heart of the matter

Elizabeth Lipke, faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering, has received a five-year, $400,000 grant through the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Faculty Early CAREER Development Program for her research designing engineered cardiac tissue and developing cardiac regeneration techniques. “Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the […]

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On call

On call

Auburn Engineering alumnus Samuel Ginn, ‘59 industrial management and namesake of the college, has been appointed to lead a 15-member board of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet). As the board’s chairman, Ginn guides development of the new broadband network, which enables first responders and public safety officials to communicate […]

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