Pradeep Lall, Thomas Walter professor of mechanical engineering and director of Auburn’s National Science Foundation Center for Advanced Vehicle and Extreme Environment Electronics, has been honored with the SEC’s Auburn University Faculty Achievement Award. Lall specializes in electronic packaging and his research interests include thermomechanics of electronics in harsh environments, […]
Carol Godfrey, ’86 industrial engineering and vice president of marketing and product development for Southwire’s Energy Division, was recognized as a Woman of Distinction by Auburn’s Women’s Resource Center in April. Godfrey helps maintain Southwire’s presence in the power and renewable energy industry, and works to expand its markets in […]
Jimmy Kaczmarek, ‘13 chemical engineering, was recently selected as a finalist for the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship funded by Bill and Melinda Gates through the Gates Cambridge Trust. Last spring, he was named a Goldwater Scholarship honorable mention, a national recognition for undergraduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. He […]
Several Auburn Engineering alumni have been recently appointed to significant leadership roles for the university. The Alabama Senate approved Mike DeMaioribus, ’76 electrical engineering, to the Auburn University Board of Trustees. DeMaioribus is senior vice president of Dynetics in Huntsville and will represent District 8, which stretches across north Alabama. […]
Auburn Engineering’s annual student recruitment open house, E-Day, saw the largest turnout to date with more than 3,000 students, parents and teachers visiting from as far as Connecticut, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio and Texas. The event, held in February, offered middle and high school students the opportunity to tour engineering facilities, […]
Sushil Bhavnani, Henry M. Burt Jr. professor of mechanical engineering, has been awarded a NASA Space Technology Research Opportunities — Early Stage Innovations grant to construct condenser surfaces for use in spacecraft thermal control systems. His project, “Enabling self-propelled condensate flow during phase-change heat rejection using surface texturing,” is in […]
David J. Branscomb, ’12 doctoral graduate in polymer and fiber engineering, recently won the “Best and Brightest” student poster competition at the American Composites Manufacturers Association’s Composites 2013 conference in Orlando, Fla. Branscomb’s poster, “Design Process for Open Architecture Composites,” describes his research exploring a process to design and manufacture […]
Brian Thurow, W. Allen and Martha Reed associate professor in aerospace engineering, is working to adapt a camera technology called a plenoptic camera, or light-field camera, to study new methods for 3D velocity measurements in turbulent flows. Plenoptic cameras use a microlens array placed near an image sensor to record […]
Biosystems engineering faculty members Steve Taylor, Tim McDonald, Oladiran Fasina, John Fulton and Sushil Adhikari are collaborating with forestry and wildlife science faculty members Tom Gallagher, Mathew Smidt and Brian Via, as well as Auburn forest engineering alumni Frank Corley, president of Corley Land Services, and Johnny Boyd, forest engineer […]
Allan David, John W. Brown assistant professor in chemical engineering, is conducting research in “smart nanomaterials,” nanoparticles and nanocomposites that respond to changes in their environment. While David will explore a wide array of applications for “smart nanomaterials,” his primary focus will be biomedicine. One project, for example, will utilize […]
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