Zac Young wakes each morning prepared to slay dragons. The recent graduate in mechanical engineering isn’t armed with a sword, shield or helmet. Instead, he’s gifted with determination to tackle problems, never-ending curiosity and a tiny gadget that might just be the next big thing in the utilities industry.
In the world of diagnostic imaging, physicians often turn to magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, to diagnose a wide variety of diseases and conditions. For patients suspected of certain conditions, such as inflammatory or infectious diseases, an MRI contrast agent is used to help improve diagnostic accuracy. Unfortunately, the chemical makeup of the most common contrast agents currently on the market — gadolinium-based contrast agents — can have potential long-term toxicity risks in the bodies of individuals with poor kidney function, which affects a population of nearly 2 million patients globally.
The life of a faculty member mirrors that of an entrepreneur. Always in pursuit of their next idea, faculty spend their time outside of the classroom applying for funding and then putting that funding to work in the lab or in the field. Crossing from one world into the next wasn’t that much of a stretch for Bruce Tatarchuk.
Pulmonary hypertension kills roughly 15,000 Americans each year. A researcher at Auburn University, however, has a potential solution.
Fall Saturdays have gotten complicated for Michael Zabala, founder and chairman of XO Armor.
The big engineering school in Texas had a cool space. Just not cool enough for Ethan Peat.
Auburn University is committing unprecedented levels of support for research across the Auburn campus, bolstering engineering research programs that have long been on the ascendancy. These departmental highlights offer a snapshot into the groundbreaking research being performed by Auburn Engineering faculty.
Thanks to the reputation of the units under the Auburn University Transportation Research Institute’s umbrella, extramural funding for transportation is greater than any other single topic within Auburn University’s research footprint.
Alumni serve as important role models for current and future Auburn Engineering students. Read how these African American alumni are using their stories to help the next generation see what is possible with their engineering degree.
“Representing Auburn was awesome. But never in a million years would I have thought it would have been through cornhole.”
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