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Excellence and achievement

Excellence and achievement

The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering held its annual Spring Awards Ceremony in April, presenting 30 student awards, 19 faculty awards and 10 alumni awards.

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Meaning Business

Meaning Business

It’s been nearly 50 years since Joe Forehand last attended a higher education class, but the 71-year-old decided this year that it was time to go back to school. Just not in the way you would think.

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Alabama’s transportation leader for more than 60 years

Alabama’s transportation leader for more than 60 years

The Department of Civil Engineering organized and developed the Annual Alabama Transportation Conference for 62 years.

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Asteroid exploration

Asteroid exploration

Masatoshi Hirabayashi, assistant professor in aerospace engineering, is part of two on-going asteroid exploration missions.

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It’s My Job: Rose-Gaëlle Belinga

It’s My Job: Rose-Gaëlle Belinga

“At Morgan Stanley, I work in the Mobile Engineering team and also lead several projects.”

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Virginia Davis (center), alumni professor in Chemical Engineering, recently won a $342,502 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate the factors influencing the attitudes of minority youth in underserved communities toward science and engineering.

Dynamic Diversity: Tapping Potential

It’s probably safe to call Virginia Davis an outreach superstar.

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Leader of the Pack

Leader of the Pack

In 2001, then Dean Larry Benefield set out on a course to dramatically improve the engineering educational programs at Auburn University. Samuel Ginn, ’59 industrial engineering, answered the call by donating $25 million and putting the college on an upward trajectory that continues to this day.

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New challenges, new major

New challenges, new major

The goal of the Biological and Agricultural Technology Management (BATM or “BATMAN”) is to produce graduates that use technology to solve problems.

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Topping tech

Topping tech

Pavani Ankireddy, a master’s student in computer science and software engineering, was recently announced as one of three winners of the Alabama Technology Foundation Scholarship.

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Finding Nano

Finding Nano

Armin VahidMohammadi was sitting at the $500,000 JSM-7000F scanning electron microscope (SEM), finding ways for two-dimensional conductive nanomaterials called MXenes to maybe one day charge your cell phone in two seconds, and then he saw it — Nemo.

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