The Young Alumni Council, composed of 22 engineering alumni who have graduated within the past 10 years, recently descended on the Plains to discuss ways to promote its mission of engaging, supporting and connecting young engineering alumni. At the semi-annual meeting, members met in breakout sessions to discuss ways young […]
Chris Moody, vice president of data strategy at Twitter, spoke at the spring 2016 commencement ceremony May 7 in the Auburn Arena. In his message, Moddy, ’90 electrical engineering, emphasized the difference between being good and great, and how some extra effort can make the biggest difference. His closing remarks […]
Andrew Bates, a senior in mechanical engineering and the Honors College, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Stockholm, Sweden for the 2016-17 academic year. An Alpharetta, Georgia native, Bates will conduct research under the guidance of Andrew Martin, professor in the Department of Energy Technology at KTH […]
Kasey Cooper, junior in mechanical engineering, was named the Southeastern Conference’s Player of the Year and Scholar-Athlete of the Year in softball. She is the first player in Auburn school history to be named the conference’s Player of the Year. Cooper was also named espnW’s softball Player of the Year, […]
Sara Head and Jennifer Kaczmarek, seniors in chemical engineering, have been named Barry M. Goldwater Scholars, only two of 252 students nationwide. Head and Kaczmarek are researching ways to engineer materials to regenerate cardiac tissue under the direction of Elizabeth Lipke, associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Their […]
Several recent engineering graduates have been named National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows. Connor Dobson, Christy Pickering and Sean Bitner, all ’16 chemical engineering; Ben Spearman, ’14 chemical engineering; Hannah Masten, ’15 electrical engineering; and Christopher Maurice, ’16 mechanical engineering, were each named to the prestigious NSF graduate fellowship program. […]
If you’ve read the recently released biography titled “Lorendo” about beloved and long-time assistant football coach Gene Lorendo, you’ll notice the author’s name also has a familiar ring to it. The book was written by Ken Ringer, ’59 industrial management, and it chronicles the life of Lorendo, including his service […]
Joshua Passantino, a triple major pursing degrees in biosystems engineering, chemical engineering and Spanish, has been nominated for the prestigious Morris K. and Stewart L. Udall Scholarship for Excellence in National Environmental Policy. The Udall scholarship was established to provide scholarships to outstanding students who demonstrate leadership, public service and […]
Parking on the Auburn University campus is no easy feat, as students will tell you. Jonathan Philip and Alex Wakefield, both seniors in mechanical engineering, have developed a solution that could alleviate those parking headaches in the future. Philip and Wakefield created Parking Grid Technologies, an app that gathers information […]
It’s 2016 and no one has discovered time travel yet, but Samuel Ginn College of Engineering students may have us traveling 760 miles per hour in the near future. Entrepreneur Elon Musk, known for his success with PayPal, Tesla Motors and most recently SpaceX, held an open competition in January […]
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