Archive for June, 2019

Leader of the Pack

Leader of the Pack

In 2001, then Dean Larry Benefield set out on a course to dramatically improve the engineering educational programs at Auburn University. Samuel Ginn, ’59 industrial engineering, answered the call by donating $25 million and putting the college on an upward trajectory that continues to this day.

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New challenges, new major

New challenges, new major

The goal of the Biological and Agricultural Technology Management (BATM or “BATMAN”) is to produce graduates that use technology to solve problems.

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Topping tech

Topping tech

Pavani Ankireddy, a master’s student in computer science and software engineering, was recently announced as one of three winners of the Alabama Technology Foundation Scholarship.

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Finding Nano

Finding Nano

Armin VahidMohammadi was sitting at the $500,000 JSM-7000F scanning electron microscope (SEM), finding ways for two-dimensional conductive nanomaterials called MXenes to maybe one day charge your cell phone in two seconds, and then he saw it — Nemo.

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The road to scholarships

Auburn University civil engineering students Daniel Lowell and Nicole Reed were selected to receive the 2018 Barton S. Mitchell Memorial Asphalt Industry Scholarship.

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Arsenal allies

Arsenal allies

Representatives from the Team Redstone Additive Manufacturing Integrated Product Team (IPT) recently visited Auburn University’s National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence to discuss current and future collaborations with Auburn.

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Aerospace engineering professors Imon Chakraborty and Roy Hartfield pose on the campus of Auburn University.

We have liftoff

A pair of Auburn aerospace engineering professors has been awarded a grant by NASA as part of the Transformational Tools and Technologies (TTT) project of the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD).

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Honoring a legacy

Friends, family and colleagues gathered on Friday, Feb. 28, 2019 to celebrate the career of Don Watson, research engineer and training manager, and his induction into the NCAT Wall of Honor.

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Auburn named as an American Concrete Institute Excellent University

Auburn named as an American Concrete Institute Excellent University

Auburn University has been named as one of only 25 American Concrete Institute Excellent Universities for 2018. This is the fourth year in a row Auburn receives the top honor. The ACI award for university student activities was initiated to recognize universities that have participated in ACI-related programs. The award […]

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Basima Abdulrahman, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, KESK Green Building Consulting, Iraq; Cultural Leader speaking during the Session "Shaping Globalization 4.0" at the Annual Meeting 2019 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 22, 2019. Congress Cenre - Congress Hall. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Valeriano Di Domenico

International impact

Auburn University international alumna and Fulbright scholar Basima Abdulrahman, who recently founded Iraq’s first sustainable architecture consultancy, co-chaired the World Economic Forum’s 2019 Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland.

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