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Into the Lab: Biosystems

Faculty member Puneet Srivastava and several colleagues are using El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) information generated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) to develop methods for addressing both drought and flood in the Southeast. The team assisted the city of Auburn in planning for drought this summer as […]

by × October 20, 2011 ×
World-class research on the road

World-class research on the road

This summer, Auburn Engineering celebrated the 25th year of the National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT), which was created in 1986 during Weaver’s tenure, through an agreement with the National Asphalt Pavement Association Research and Education Foundation and Auburn University. The center’s success has involved the cooperation of more than […]

by × October 20, 2011 ×

Into the Lab: Chemical

Faculty members Bob Ashurst and Virginia Davis, along with chemical engineering alumnus Christopher Kitchens, who is an assistant professor at Clemson University, have been awarded a National Science Foundation grant for their project, “Collaborative Research: Processing and Properties of Cellulose Films for MEMS Applications.” The researchers will investigate the feasibility […]

by × October 20, 2011 ×
Into the Lab: Civil

Into the Lab: Civil

Civil engineering faculty members Justin Marshall and Brian Anderson led undergraduate student Patrick Kimmons, below, and graduate students Luke Meadows, behind ladder, and Jared Jensen, above, in testing a bridge’s endurance for real-world use in the Harbert Structures Lab this summer. A full-scale, 20-foot span precast concrete specimen was donated by […]

by × October 20, 2011 ×

Into the Lab: Computer Science and Software

Weikuan Yu, faculty member in the department, and students in Auburn’s Parallel Architecture and Systems Laboratory have been recognized by Mellanox Technologies Inc. for their research and software development. Mellanox presented Auburn with a $150,000 grant to conduct research that led to the development of a Hadoop acceleration software product […]

by × October 20, 2011 ×
Into the Lab: Electrical and Computer

Into the Lab: Electrical and Computer

Students in the department’s Cooperative Robotics Research Lab are working on robots that can interact cooperatively with humans in real-world situations. The lab features several types of robots, including six 18-inch battery operated robots trained to find a target; three larger robots controlled by an open-source software called Robotic Operating […]

by × October 20, 2011 ×

Into the Lab: Industrial and systems

Faculty member Alice Smith, along with David Umphress and Drew Hamilton, faculty members in computer science and software engineering, has been funded for a second year by the Department of Defense to continue a two-course sequence on systems engineering. The project, “Development of Multi-Disciplinary Systems Engineering Courses Focused on Secure […]

by × October 20, 2011 ×

Into the Lab: Mechanical

Hareesh Tippur, McWane professor in the department, and Xinyu Zhang, assistant professor in polymer and fiber engineering, have been awarded a three-year, $300,000 National Science Foundation grant for their research, “Novel Lightweight Syntactic Foams: Synthesis, Processing and Characterization.” They are investigating ways to develop structural foams that are stronger, as […]

by × October 19, 2011 ×
Into the Lab: Polymer and fiber

Into the Lab: Polymer and fiber

Faculty member Yasser Gowayed and graduate student Essam Abouzeida, along with faculty members George Flowers and Lewis Payton in mechanical engineering, are working to construct advanced fibrous composite airplane wings. They are collaborating with NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center and the Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Company to manufacture a polymer […]

by × October 19, 2011 ×
Presidential award

Presidential award

Virginia A. Davis (second from left), associate professor in chemical engineering, was among 85 researchers named by President Barack Obama as a recipient of the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on early-career researchers. Davis was recognized for innovative […]

by × July 1, 2011 ×