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BE THE CREED: NORM TEW

BE THE CREED: NORM TEW

Behind every great country exists a complex defense system to protect its people from foreign adversaries. Norm Tew, ’82 and ’84 electrical engineering, has served as the engineer behind many of the nation’s best defense systems.

by × May 19, 2021 ×
Faculty Highlights: Spring 2021

Faculty Highlights: Spring 2021

Lauren Beckingham, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, was named the inaugural recipient of the Emerging Investigator Award from Applied Geochemistry, the Journal of the International Association of Geochemistry. She and Karen McNeal, the Molette Endowed Professor of geosciences, also received a $139,375 National Science Foundation grant for research […]

by × May 10, 2021 ×
125 Years of Auburn’s X-Ray Vision

125 Years of Auburn’s X-Ray Vision

The untold story of Auburn Engineering’s pioneering role in the scientific breakthrough that changed the world.

by × December 18, 2020 ×
Auburn Makes (A Difference)

Auburn Makes (A Difference)

How Auburn Engineering’s fight against Covid-19 inspired a new era of campus collaboration

by × December 15, 2020 ×
The Award Goes To…

The Award Goes To…

Eight outstanding alumni and one longtime employee of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering were honored during a virtual ceremony Friday, Sept. 25, by the Auburn Alumni Engineering Council for their distinguished professional careers.

by × December 15, 2020 ×
Faculty Highlights: Fall 2020

Faculty Highlights: Fall 2020

Bryan Beckingham, assistant professor of chemical engineering, and Lauren Beckingham, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, received a $331,833 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “3D Printing of Reactive Porous Media to Enhance Understanding of Porosity-Permeability Evolution.” David Bevly, the Bill and Lana McNair Professor […]

by × December 14, 2020 ×
Structural Integrity

Structural Integrity

America has an infrastructure problem.

Auburn now has a $22 million solution. It’s at the corner of West Samford Avenue and Shug Jordan Parkway, it’s nearly 42,000 square feet, and it’s spectacular.

by × December 14, 2020 ×
A Family Within the Auburn Family

A Family Within the Auburn Family

This is what the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) has become for so many Black students in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.

by × December 14, 2020 ×
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceX’s crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley launched at 3:22 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

A New Era of Spaceflight

It’s no surprise that many Auburn Engineering alumni played key roles in making the Commercial Crew Program a reality.

by × December 14, 2020 ×
Be the Creed: Dremere Woods

Be the Creed: Dremere Woods

Dremere Woods wouldn’t have made it to Auburn without “work, hard work.”

by × December 14, 2020 ×