Archive for June, 2012

E-day 2012

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 […]

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A Fellow for the Future

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 […]

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Blacktop Study Drives Smooth Savings

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 […]

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Detailing a Disaster

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 […]

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At the Helm

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 […]

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Summer of Flight

Saad Biaz, faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, and Gilbert Crouse, faculty member in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, have received more than $320,000 from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense to continue hosting an NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) on […]

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The Numbers Game

Engineering has been included among several Auburn graduate programs to receive high rankings from U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Graduate Schools,” which was released in March. The college ranked 40th among public universities and 67th nationally, while the industrial and systems engineering program is 15th among public universities […]

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Taking Care of Friction

Auburn Engineering has established a new minor in tribology and lubrication science — one of only a few programs in the nation focused on the contact, friction, wear and lubrication of surfaces. Tribology’s applications range widely, from bearings, engines and manufacturing, to human joint replacement, to nanotechnology, oil product chemistry, […]

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The Host with the Most

Auburn University’s Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) student chapter hosted the IIE Southeast Regional Student Conference in February. More than 150 industrial engineering students from 11 schools around the Southeast participated in the event, which included a technical paper competition, a tour of the KIA plant in West Point, Ga., […]

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Read all About it

Doctoral candidate Vivek Ahuja and graduate student Jason Cary in aerospace engineering have published a new book on missile systems design. “Project SENTINEL: Design of a Long-Range, High-Speed, Precision-Strike Tactical Weapon” discusses software tools developed in the department and outlines the missile design process from basic parameters to final production […]

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