Dynamic Diversity: Closing the Gap
Jakita Thomas’ passion for research on diversity in computing is rooted in her own experiences in the field.
Articles by: Chris Anthony
Hester named state’s Outstanding Co-op Student
Daylon Hester, ’18 electrical and computer engineering, was selected the state of Alabama’s Outstanding Co-op Student of the Year. This is the ninth consecutive year an Auburn Engineering student has won the statewide award. The award was presented by the Alabama Association of Colleges and Employers at its annual conference […]
Digital Diversity
Jakita Thomas, the Philpott-WestPoint Stevens Associate Professor of computer science and software engineering, is one of more than 100 faculty members that will be supported by the Southeastern Conference Faculty Travel Program in 2018-19. Thomas used the program in August to visit Vanderbilt University to collaborate with fellow SEC faculty […]
Trauma and the Brain
An interdisciplinary team of researchers in Auburn University’s MRI Research Center, located within the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering is using a technique called functional magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study the biochemistry of people with post-traumatic stress disorder. The goal of the project is to understand better the neurobiological basis […]
Faculty Highlights: Fall 2018
Lauren Beckingham, assistant professor of civil engineering, was awarded a $110,000 grant from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund to research fracture permeability evolution during enhanced oil recovery. David Bevly, the Bill and Lana McNair Professor of mechanical engineering, and Scott Martin, assistant research professor of […]
The Rhodes to success
While other teenagers were spending summer break lounging by the pool or working summer jobs, Matthew Rogers was meticulously dissecting a malware program developed by a foreign adversary. For some people, scanning line after line of code from the confines of a Huntsville office building may epitomize monotony, but it […]
Jason Clark: Berkeley, California
For Jason Clark, navigating downtown Auburn is a breeze compared to his time as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, where a 20-minute drive to campus could turn into two-hour gridlock in the Bay Area’s infamous traffic. Having joined Auburn University as an assistant professor in the […]
Bolstering the digital supply chain
Auburn Engineering was awarded a $1.04 million project from the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute for research on digital supply chain practices and technologies. The project will result in the development of guides and strategies to accelerate the adoption of digital supply chain practices and technologies for original equipment […]
Leadership in additive manufacturing
NASA and ASTM International, a global standards organization, selected Auburn University for two new partnerships that will spur technological advances in additive manufacturing. Auburn, expanding upon its existing relationship with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, has formed the National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence. It already has more than 40 […]
National accolades
James Smith, graduate student in electrical and computer engineering, was named co-winner of the Alton B. Zerby and Carl T. Koerner Outstanding Student Award from IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu, a national academic honor society. He shared the award with Katelyn Brinker from the Missouri University of Science and Technology. The award […]
