Lifetime Achievement Award recipients for 2023 from the College of Engineering included Charles McCrary, ’73 mechanical engineering; Tom Walter, ’55 engineering physics; and Mike McCartney, ’57 civil engineering. The Young Alumni Award recipient was Rose-Gaëlle Belinga, ’09 software engineering.
Eight outstanding alumni and one longtime employee of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering were honored during a virtual ceremony Friday, Sept. 25, by the Auburn Alumni Engineering Council for their distinguished professional careers.
It was March 22. Chris Spiker didn’t have to guess which garage was Michael Zabala’s. On a normal Sunday afternoon, he might have thought he was looking at someone gearing up to mow the lawn. But during a pandemic? The guy in the medical mask bent over a work table covered in wires and tubes was a dead giveaway.
“At Morgan Stanley, I work in the Mobile Engineering team and also lead several projects.”
Nirmit Patel won’t call himself a bounty hunter. That’s too cheesy, he said. But he will accept his role in helping make Facebook safer – through bounty hunting, of course.
Susan Story, ’81 industrial engineering and president and CEO of American Water Works, and Walt Woltosz, ’69 aerospace engineering and founder of Words+ and Simulations Plus, were speakers this year during the spring and fall graduation ceremonies, respectively. Story has served as CEO of American Water Works – the largest […]
Six outstanding alumni and ambassadors of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering were honored in September at The Hotel at Auburn University by the Auburn Alumni Engineering Council for their distingushed professional careers. These alumni included three were recognized as Distinguished Auburn Engineers, two as Outstanding You Auburn Engineers and […]
From Hawaii to Nigeria and everywhere in between, Auburn Engineering students come from all over, while our faculty members bring expertise from universities across the country and world. JP Prislin: Kailua, Hawaii Hari Narayanan: Kerala, India Natalie Palmquist: Jackson Hole, Wyoming Mario Eden: Genner, Denmark Zhiyuan Chen: Hangzhou, China Jason […]
Mechanical engineering graduate Tj Nguyen is working toward his master’s degree while serving as assistant director of the newly established Southeastern Center of Robotics Education, or SCORE. Nguyen says he has a powerful ambition: to increase the abilities of Alabama schoolchildren in STEM and dramatically improve their achievement scores. The […]
From the desk of… Joshua Batterson, assistant research professor of aerospace engineering, and his contract partners have received more than $2.5 million from NASA and the Department of Defense during the past three years to predict, model and analyze combustion instability in rockets, jet engines and scramjets. Batterson is currently […]
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