Auburn Engineering hosted more than 1,000 college students from around the globe April 20-22 for Baja SAE Auburn 2012. Teams went head-to-head with their off-road vehicles on a specially designed course at Auburn’s National Center for Asphalt Technology, competing in design and technical inspection, as well as acceleration, land maneuverability, […]
Linda Figg, a 1981 civil engineering graduate and president and CEO of FIGG Bridge Engineers, was recognized as a Woman of Distinction by Auburn’s Women’s Resource Center this February for her many professional and civic accomplishments. Figg has established new bridge technologies that are invaluable to the long-term viability of […]
Thanks to George F. Kirchoff, a 1955 engineering physics graduate, we can drive easy. Kirchoff worked for 35 years — with Thiokol Inc., Morton International and Autoliy Inc. — to develop a successful airbag, and he has the patents to show for it. He didn’t invent the airbag, per se, […]
Auburn Engineering received national visibility when faculty members Prabhakar Clement and Joel Hayworth in the Department of Civil Engineering were featured in National Geographic daily news to discuss finding traces of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the sands of Orange Beach, Ala., as recently as February. The researchers have […]
A new book chronicling the history of Auburn University’s College of Engineering is slated for release this summer. They Came from Auburn: A History of Engineering in the New South spans the period from 1857 to the present. “It will be the definitive history of Auburn’s College of Engineering,” says […]
Auburn Engineering hosted its annual student recruitment open house, E-Day, in February. The event offers an opportunity for middle and high school students to chat one-on-one with engineering students and faculty members and learn about Auburn’s campus, engineering programs, research projects and organizations. Nearly 3,000 students from across the Southeast […]
Xinyu Que, doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, was selected for the George Michael Memorial HPC Ph.D. Fellowship at the 2011 Supercomputing Conference. The fellowship program honors exceptional doctoral students throughout the world and seeks to train the next generation of high performance computing scientists […]
Smooth pavements not only create safe driving conditions, but also save drivers money at the gas pump, even as gas prices are on the rise. A study by the National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) and the Department of Mechanical Engineering has found that smoother pavements are characterized by less […]
Taylor Rawlinson, doctoral candidate in the Department of Civil Engineering, was selected as one of three students nationwide to spend a month in Japan researching the massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that rocked the country last March. Rawlinson, who is concentrating his research in structures engineering, began work in […]
Auburn alumna Susan Story, ’82 industrial and systems engineering, has been recognized with the prestigious Institute of Industrial Engineers’ Captain of Industry award honoring leaders in business, industry and government. Story is president and CEO of Southern Company Services. She joined Southern Company in 1982 as a nuclear power plant […]
AUBURN ENGINEERING NEWS