Saad Biaz, faculty member in computer science and software engineering, hosted Auburn’s 10th Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) on smart unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) this summer. An REU is an 8-10 week summer program funded by the National Science Foundation to introduce undergraduate students to research and encourage them to […]
Electrical and computer engineering faculty member Shumin Wang is looking deep — he is researching the use of 7 Tesla (T) MRI scanners for deep-brain imaging. Wang is investigating a new phased array transceiver technique that combines safe, anatomy-specific radio frequency transmission and low-noise multi-channel signal reception in a single […]
Hareesh Tippur, McWane professor in mechanical engineering, has been awarded a three year grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a full-field digital stress gradient sensor that can optically measure small angular deflections of light rays to one thousandth of a degree in transparent structural materials that are subjected […]
Industrial and systems engineering faculty members Jerry Davis, Rich Sesek and Sean Gallagher have been awarded two grants totaling $1.5 million from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to support occupational safety and ergonomics and occupational injury prevention graduate programs in the department. “We are very pleased […]
Maria Auad, associate professor in the Department of Polymer and Fiber Engineering, will lead an institute on environmentally-friendly materials. She has been awarded a $100,000 National Science Foundation grant to organize and direct the Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute, a jointly supported initiative between the Department of Energy and the National […]
Noise-induced hearing loss is caused by a sound’s power, as well as the amount of time it is heard — an occupational hazard for military pilots. Brian Thurow, W. Allen and Martha Reed associate professor, is working to reduce this risk along with researchers from the University of Mississippi’s National […]
Faculty member Sushil Adhikari and doctoral student Nourredine Abdoulmoumine have developed a portable, compact and fully lab-scale integrated system that can be used in conducting pyrolysis and gasification research. It is a valuable and rapid screening tool that can be used to assess the potential of various biomass feedstocks for […]
Jin Wang, Buddy Redd associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, is applying systems and control engineering principles to predict complex chemical processes. Wang and her team focus on two areas — systems biology and manufacturing process modeling and control — applying their work to early cancer detection and […]
Doctoral student Sam Keske and faculty members Robert Barnes and Anton Schindler have conducted research to evaluate a new type of self-consolidating concrete (SCC) for the Alabama Department of Transportation. It has not been previously used for bridge girders in the state of Alabama. SCC resembles a stable fluid when […]
Faculty member Munawar Hafiz is leading the department’s Software Analysis, Transformation and Security (SATS) group to work on program analysis and transformation technologies, as well as to improve security for Javascript and C applications. The group is spearheading the development of CR-12, a framework for developing automatic program transformations in […]
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