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Mentors in the Making

Mentors in the Making

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.

by × May 19, 2021 ×
The Cornhole King

The Cornhole King

“Representing Auburn was awesome. But never in a million years would I have thought it would have been through cornhole.”

by × May 19, 2021 ×
The Pathfinder

The Pathfinder

Steve Taylor, associate dean for research, doesn’t remember them all; a lot of students passed through biosystems during his days heading the department. But he remembers Jessica Mills.

by × May 19, 2021 ×
125 Years of Auburn’s X-Ray Vision

125 Years of Auburn’s X-Ray Vision

The untold story of Auburn Engineering’s pioneering role in the scientific breakthrough that changed the world.

by × December 18, 2020 ×
Auburn Makes (A Difference)

Auburn Makes (A Difference)

How Auburn Engineering’s fight against Covid-19 inspired a new era of campus collaboration

by × December 15, 2020 ×
Structural Integrity

Structural Integrity

America has an infrastructure problem.

Auburn now has a $22 million solution. It’s at the corner of West Samford Avenue and Shug Jordan Parkway, it’s nearly 42,000 square feet, and it’s spectacular.

by × December 14, 2020 ×
A Family Within the Auburn Family

A Family Within the Auburn Family

This is what the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) has become for so many Black students in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.

by × December 14, 2020 ×
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceX’s crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley launched at 3:22 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

A New Era of Spaceflight

It’s no surprise that many Auburn Engineering alumni played key roles in making the Commercial Crew Program a reality.

by × December 14, 2020 ×
Rapid Response

Rapid Response

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 […]

by × July 21, 2020 ×
Rapid Response

Rapid Response

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.

by × July 20, 2020 ×