A new book chronicling the history of Auburn University’s College of Engineering is slated for release this summer. They Came from Auburn: A History of Engineering in the New South spans the period from 1857 to the present. “It will be the definitive history of Auburn’s College of Engineering,” says […]
Smooth pavements not only create safe driving conditions, but also save drivers money at the gas pump, even as gas prices are on the rise. A study by the National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) and the Department of Mechanical Engineering has found that smoother pavements are characterized by less […]
Auburn alumna Susan Story, ’82 industrial and systems engineering, has been recognized with the prestigious Institute of Industrial Engineers’ Captain of Industry award honoring leaders in business, industry and government. Story is president and CEO of Southern Company Services. She joined Southern Company in 1982 as a nuclear power plant […]
Engineering has been included among several Auburn graduate programs to receive high rankings from U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Graduate Schools,” which was released in March. The college ranked 40th among public universities and 67th nationally, while the industrial and systems engineering program is 15th among public universities […]
Auburn University’s Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) student chapter hosted the IIE Southeast Regional Student Conference in February. More than 150 industrial engineering students from 11 schools around the Southeast participated in the event, which included a technical paper competition, a tour of the KIA plant in West Point, Ga., […]
Doctoral candidate Vivek Ahuja and graduate student Jason Cary in aerospace engineering have published a new book on missile systems design. “Project SENTINEL: Design of a Long-Range, High-Speed, Precision-Strike Tactical Weapon” discusses software tools developed in the department and outlines the missile design process from basic parameters to final production […]
Auburn University’s Thomas Walter Center for Technology Management, along with the Business-Engineering-Technology (B-E-T) program and the new Auburn Student Inventor’s Club, recently held its second annual Invention2Venture (i2v) Apprentice Challenge workshop, a program that equips students with entrepreneurial skills. Twenty-one students on five teams heard from a panel of entrepreneurs […]
Hector Galicia, a graduate student in chemical engineering, has been awarded one of five Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) student travel grants from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The grants are awarded each year to assist promising graduate students with travel expenses to the organization’s annual meeting. Galicia […]
Noise-induced hearing loss is caused by a sound’s power, as well as the amount of time it is heard — an occupational hazard for military pilots. Brian Thurow, W. Allen and Martha Reed associate professor, is working to reduce this risk along with researchers from the University of Mississippi’s National […]
Jin Wang, Buddy Redd associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, is applying systems and control engineering principles to predict complex chemical processes. Wang and her team focus on two areas — systems biology and manufacturing process modeling and control — applying their work to early cancer detection and […]
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