From The Faculty: Simulating Urban Air Mobility
Several barriers must first be overcome before widespread adoption of Urban Air Mobility is a possibility.
Several barriers must first be overcome before widespread adoption of Urban Air Mobility is a possibility.
Vinamra Agrawal, assistant professor of aerospace engineering, received a $408,000 National Science Foundation award to investigate the multiscaled response of materials when subjected to shock loading. David Bevly, the Bill and Lana McNair Professor of mechanical engineering, received $444,000 in total awards for GPS and alternative positioning, navigation and timing […]
Mark Adams, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, was awarded $3 million in funding from T2S Solutions for his research toward the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command. J. Brian Anderson associate professor of geotechnical engineering, was awarded a $222,802 grant from the Alabama Department of Transportation for […]
“We believe that our work will develop new approaches that will enable further advanced spaceflight exploration missions to asteroids.”
Faculty Highlights: Spring 2019
Following the violent impact of the EF4 tornado that struck Beauregard, Alabama, on March 3, 2019, we are all too familiar with the devastation these storms can cause.
The goal of process monitoring is to detect the onset and identify the root cause of any change that causes a manufacturing environment to deviate from its desired operation. Process monitoring is an important component and key enabler for the long-term reliable operation of any manufacturing processes. In the era […]
Lauren Beckingham, assistant professor of civil engineering, was awarded a $110,000 grant from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund to research fracture permeability evolution during enhanced oil recovery. David Bevly, the Bill and Lana McNair Professor of mechanical engineering, and Scott Martin, assistant research professor of […]
Sushil Adhikari, Alumni Professor of biosystems engineering, received the Provost Award for Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring. David Bevly, the Bill and Lana McNair Professor of mechanical engineering, and Scott Martin, assistant research professor, were awarded $150,000 from Integrated Solutions for Systems for their precision vehicle spacing research. Lorenzo […]
The second edition of the book Paper Machine Clothing (PMC) was published in December 2017 with a group of professionals from AstenJohnson University. With many research and development and manufacturing facilities globally, AstenJohnson is a major supplier of engineered fabrics for the pulp and paper industry in the world. The […]