Our story featured on the spring cover of Auburn Engineering, “Nerds in Engineering: Not on this Campus,” struck a chord (pun intended) with many of our readers, and some wrote to us to share their own stories. Paul S. Green, ’61 chemical engineering, told of his days in the Alabama […]
Bill Richardson, who graduated from Auburn in 1969 with a master’s degree in electrical engineering, spent 26 years working for International Paper (IP) at a time when computer-control innovation was on the rise. Richardson and a team of co-workers, including Auburn engineering alums John Botts (’64 and ’66 mechanical engineering) […]
The college will host the 2012 Baja SAE Auburn competition April 19-22 at the National Center for Asphalt Technology test site in neighboring Opelika. Competition events include a design report and evaluation, acceleration, suspension, maneuverability, a hill climb and an endurance race. Auburn hosted the event in 2009 and 2006. […]
We spent five minutes with Rose-Gaëlle Belinga, graduate student in computer science and software engineering, for our spring/ summer 2010 issue, and followed up with her recently about her 10-week summer internship with financial advising giant Morgan Stanley in New York City. Belinga served as a technology analyst, helping to […]
Auburn’s Center for Microfibrous Materials Manufacturing has been awarded a $3.2 million grant from the Office of Naval Research to study and develop advanced air filters for fuel cell systems. To remove airborne contaminants, fuel cell filters must operate efficiently while allowing air to pass through them with a minimal drop […]
Joseph Burke, a junior in mechanical engineering, likes to go fast. He races when he’s behind the wheel of his rally car, a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9, but not through life or school at Auburn. Burke is an internationally ranked motorsport champion and at 18 became the youngest American rally […]
Three Auburn Engineering professors and a graduate student are developing efficient geotextile fabrics with electronic antenna capabilities, and their prototypes are already showing promise. David Elton in civil engineering, Gwen Thomas in polymer and fiber engineering, Lloyd Riggs in electrical engineering and doctoral student Andrew Sivulka are combining their electrical, […]
In August, industrial and systems engineering hosted a teachers institute for the Material Handling Institute of America. The week-long, biannual event featured visiting industrial engineering, logistics and business faculty from around the world, including Canada, South America, Europe and the Middle East, learning new methods for teaching materials handling, logistics […]
Thad Roppel’s electrical and computer engineering class recently “borrowed” Auburn’s new indoor practice facility to conduct a test flight that might normally be done inside Jordan-Hare Stadium by Auburn’s own Nova. Instead, Roppel’s students launched an ornithopter — a robotic cardinal that operates via remote control. Robo Nova, as it […]
Department head John Cochran, visiting research professor Harold Zallen and graduate student Judith Bailey are looking at human factors that might be attributed to recent unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) crashes during landing. By using a static flight simulator built at Auburn, they are able to simulate extended UAV missions, as […]
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