Joseph Burke, a junior in mechanical engineering, likes to go fast. He races when he’s behind the wheel of his rally car, a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9, but not through life or school at Auburn. Burke is an internationally ranked motorsport champion and at 18 became the youngest American rally […]
Three Auburn Engineering professors and a graduate student are developing efficient geotextile fabrics with electronic antenna capabilities, and their prototypes are already showing promise. David Elton in civil engineering, Gwen Thomas in polymer and fiber engineering, Lloyd Riggs in electrical engineering and doctoral student Andrew Sivulka are combining their electrical, […]
In August, industrial and systems engineering hosted a teachers institute for the Material Handling Institute of America. The week-long, biannual event featured visiting industrial engineering, logistics and business faculty from around the world, including Canada, South America, Europe and the Middle East, learning new methods for teaching materials handling, logistics […]
Department head John Cochran, visiting research professor Harold Zallen and graduate student Judith Bailey are looking at human factors that might be attributed to recent unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) crashes during landing. By using a static flight simulator built at Auburn, they are able to simulate extended UAV missions, as […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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