The State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame inducted six individuals, including four Auburn alumni, and honored a project during a February ceremony at the Westin Huntsville. This year’s inductees include Perry Hand, ’69 Auburn University civil engineering, Volkert CEO and chairman of the board; Larry Monroe, ’79 Auburn University […]
From left, Dean Christopher B. Roberts, Keith King, Charles Gavin, and Auburn University President Steven Leath In March, the Auburn Alumni Association awarded four recipients, including two engineering alumni, with its highest honor – the Lifetime Achievement Award. Charles E. Gavin III ’59, a graduate in textile management, spent […]
Jenna Klemkowsky first became interested in math and science when she was in elementary school in Morgantown, West Virginia, but it was during an exciting camp just two hours away at the Challenger Learning Center at Wheeling Jesuit University that she discovered her calling in life. “My love for STEM […]
It was a beautiful spring day in 1980 when a chance visit to the Auburn University campus forever changed the course of Beverly Houston Banister’s life. As a student majoring in hospital administration at Southern Union State Community College, Banister was encouraged by a professor to attend an Auburn Engineering […]
Embracing the job no one wanted on her middle school robotics team is what led Amber Jackson to where she is now as a junior studying computer science at Auburn. “I’ve always loved computers,” she said. “When I was in eighth grade, I taught myself how to code for my […]
As a student, any time Emily Wood Traylor questioned her future in engineering, she was lucky enough to have the support of another strong female engineering role model: her mother, Julia Cheape Wood ’82 industrial engineering. “She was there to support me and to explain all the benefits of sticking […]
Growing up in Zagreb, Croatia, Marta Miletić had an affinity for numbers at an early age. Matter of fact, it runs in the family. Miletić, assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, is the daughter of a math teacher, and the sister of an engineer. “I have been surrounded […]
It never bothered Melissa Herkt – then or now – that she was one of three women to graduate in civil engineering in 1977. “I transferred into Auburn from a community college as a rising junior, and always found the Auburn campus friendly and open,” she recalls. “I was so focused on working and […]
The advent of the integrated circuit more than 50 years ago revolutionized the electronics industry, ushering in an era of rapid advancement in computing. In the intervening half century, we now have smartphones in our pockets that are more powerful than the earliest computers. Since then, there has been a […]
Seven outstanding alumni and ambassadors of Auburn University and the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering were honored by the Auburn Alumni Engineering Council at the group’s fall honors banquet. They included five who were recognized as Distinguished Auburn Engineers, one as an Outstanding Young Auburn Engineer and one for Superior […]
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