Articles by: Chris Anthony

BE THE CREED: KAI CHANG

BE THE CREED: KAI CHANG

Long before he was a professor, Kai Chang remembers his own days sitting in a college classroom, listening to a convoluted lecture in a logic circuits class. He recalls thinking, “Maybe I could do a better job explaining this.”

by × May 19, 2021 ×
Faculty Highlights: Fall 2020

Faculty Highlights: Fall 2020

Bryan Beckingham, assistant professor of chemical engineering, and Lauren Beckingham, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, received a $331,833 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “3D Printing of Reactive Porous Media to Enhance Understanding of Porosity-Permeability Evolution.” David Bevly, the Bill and Lana McNair Professor […]

by × December 14, 2020 ×
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceX’s crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley launched at 3:22 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

A New Era of Spaceflight

It’s no surprise that many Auburn Engineering alumni played key roles in making the Commercial Crew Program a reality.

by × December 14, 2020 ×
Securing Our Elections

Securing Our Elections

Two nationally recognized programs at Auburn University are prepare election officials for new challenges.

by × June 7, 2020 ×
Securing Our Communications

Securing Our Communications

Auburn Engineering researchers are working toward unbreakable quantum encryption.

by × June 7, 2020 ×
Transportation Innovation

Transportation Innovation

Auburn will soon have one of the nation’s only autonomous
vehicle research facilities attached to a test track.

by × June 7, 2020 ×
Faculty Highlights: Spring 2020

Faculty Highlights: Spring 2020

Vinamra Agrawal, assistant professor of aerospace engineering, received a $408,000 National Science Foundation award to investigate the multiscaled response of materials when subjected to shock loading. David Bevly, the Bill and Lana McNair Professor of mechanical engineering, received $444,000 in total awards for GPS and alternative positioning, navigation and timing […]

by × June 7, 2020 ×
Mike Rogers.

Adm. Michael Rogers returns to Auburn as part of Leaders on the Plains series

Retired Adm. Michael Rogers spoke at Auburn University on Nov. 1 as part of the Leaders on the Plains series, hosted by the McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security.

by × December 20, 2019 ×
Chris Krebs

CISA directors speak on cybersecurity and infrastructure

Auburn University and the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering recently hosted the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) director and assistant director during a two-day event.

by × December 20, 2019 ×
Auburn jumps four spots in U.S. News and World Report’s undergraduate rankings

Auburn jumps four spots in U.S. News and World Report’s undergraduate rankings

Auburn University’s Samuel Ginn College of Engineering continues to emerge as one of the nation’s top engineering colleges, ranking No. 29 among public institutions in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs.

by × December 20, 2019 ×