If you’ve read the recently released biography titled “Lorendo” about beloved and long-time assistant football coach Gene Lorendo, you’ll notice the author’s name also has a familiar ring to it. The book was written by Ken Ringer, ’59 industrial management, and it chronicles the life of Lorendo, including his service […]
Joshua Passantino, a triple major pursing degrees in biosystems engineering, chemical engineering and Spanish, has been nominated for the prestigious Morris K. and Stewart L. Udall Scholarship for Excellence in National Environmental Policy. The Udall scholarship was established to provide scholarships to outstanding students who demonstrate leadership, public service and […]
Parking on the Auburn University campus is no easy feat, as students will tell you. Jonathan Philip and Alex Wakefield, both seniors in mechanical engineering, have developed a solution that could alleviate those parking headaches in the future. Philip and Wakefield created Parking Grid Technologies, an app that gathers information […]
It’s 2016 and no one has discovered time travel yet, but Samuel Ginn College of Engineering students may have us traveling 760 miles per hour in the near future. Entrepreneur Elon Musk, known for his success with PayPal, Tesla Motors and most recently SpaceX, held an open competition in January […]
The college’s commitment to online learning has been acknowledged once again by U.S. News & World Report in its 2016 Best Online Programs rankings. The College of Engineering has been listed among the nation’s finest, ranking 27th among online graduate engineering programs. The college’s graduate information technology program, housed in […]
John Edward Ingram, ’73 aerospace engineering, was the recipient of the 2015 Lincoln Award given by the Aircraft Structural Integrity Program. The award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions toward the structural integrity and safety of aircraft throughout their career. It was established in 1996 to honor John (Jack) […]
An intense programmatic phase is underway as the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering is in the beginning stages of two major renovations and a highly anticipated addition to the campus. Thanks to an $8 million transformational gift from 1959 textile management alumnus Charles E. Gavin III and his wife, Carol […]
In April 2015, Because This is Auburn — A Campaign for Auburn University launched to propel the university forward through a renewed commitment to students, a continued promise to the state and a shared responsibility to the world. As part of the $1 billion campaign, the Samuel Ginn College of […]
The 100 Women Strong program within the college hosted its annual leadership and development conference April 1, and NASA’s Stacy Counts served as the event’s keynote speaker. Counts, a 1991 Auburn industrial engineering graduate, serves as acting deputy manager of the flight programs and partnerships office at NASA’s Marshall Space […]
School bus-related stories draw attention because these recognizable big yellow vehicles transport the most precious passengers — children. Ensuring their safety is paramount once those wheels begin rolling down the road. It was, therefore, no surprise Auburn industrial and systems engineering doctoral student Yousif Abulhassan attracted such a large audience […]
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