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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kate Langley, a junior double majoring in industrial and systems engineering and French, has been offered an international internship with global tire and automotive corporation Michelin. Langley will begin training with the company this summer in Dothan, Ala., in preparation for her six-month experience in France,which begins January 2012. She […]
Auburn Engineering alums T.K. Mattingly, ’58 aerospace engineering, and Forrest S. McCartney, ’52 electrical engineering, have been recognized by the Auburn Alumni Association as recipients of its 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award, the organization’s highest honor. As a NASA astronaut, Mattingly was designated command module pilot for the Apollo 13 mission, […]
Auburn, the University of Alabama and the University of Alabama-Huntsville, have established the Aerospace Consortium of Alabama to better serve the state and its growing aerospace industry. The institutions are working together to create opportunities for state-of-the-art research, share resources and specialized equipment, and offer greater outreach programs to students, […]
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