Faculty member Sushil Adhikari and doctoral student Nourredine Abdoulmoumine have developed a portable, compact and fully lab-scale integrated system that can be used in conducting pyrolysis and gasification research. It is a valuable and rapid screening tool that can be used to assess the potential of various biomass feedstocks for […]
Doctoral student Sam Keske and faculty members Robert Barnes and Anton Schindler have conducted research to evaluate a new type of self-consolidating concrete (SCC) for the Alabama Department of Transportation. It has not been previously used for bridge girders in the state of Alabama. SCC resembles a stable fluid when […]
Faculty member Munawar Hafiz is leading the department’s Software Analysis, Transformation and Security (SATS) group to work on program analysis and transformation technologies, as well as to improve security for Javascript and C applications. The group is spearheading the development of CR-12, a framework for developing automatic program transformations in […]
Faculty members Shiwen Mao and Prathima Agrawal have been awarded a National Science Foundation grant for their project, “Collaborative Research: Fundamental Research on Adaptive Wireless Video Systems,” to develop enabling technologies for wireless video streaming that can be applied to 4G wireless, as well as legacy cellular networks. The project […]
Faculty member Bryan Chin has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to investigate and develop autonomous sensors that detect and capture pathogens in food. In his research, “Autonomous Sentinels for the Detection and Capture of Invasive Pathogens,” he looks at a system that mimics the function of naturally occurring […]
Leonardo da Vinci, also known as “the Renaissance Man,” was not the only one to recognize that water, in particular, clean water, is essential to life. Auburn Engineering students understand it as well, so much so that several of them have developed a portable water purifying system to prevent water-borne […]
Years before he was performing homemade experiments using beer cans and plywood for National Geographic Channel’s new show, “Rocket City Rednecks,” Travis Taylor was attending classes in Parker and Broun Hall, building the foundation in engineering that would lead him to a career with the Army, Department of Defense and […]
Auburn’s autonomous lawnmower team placed second in the Institute of Navigation (ION) robotic lawnmower competition this summer in Beavercreek, Ohio. The team earned a $10,000 prize for the dynamic event by navigating its robot, Moe, through a playing field while cutting grass and avoiding obstacles. Areas of the field were assigned […]
Out with the notebook paper, in with the iPad. Computer science and software engineering doctoral candidates Jonathan Lartigue and Russell Thackston have developed an interactive iPad application that teaches elementary school students about nutrition. The application, Body Quest: Food of the Warrior, features six animated characters that provide nutrition facts […]
Bill Richardson, who graduated from Auburn in 1969 with a master’s degree in electrical engineering, spent 26 years working for International Paper (IP) at a time when computer-control innovation was on the rise. Richardson and a team of co-workers, including Auburn engineering alums John Botts (’64 and ’66 mechanical engineering) […]
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