{"id":7080,"date":"2020-06-07T15:10:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T15:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/?p=7080"},"modified":"2020-06-10T13:15:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T13:15:03","slug":"faculty-highlights-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/?p=7080","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Highlights: Spring 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vinamra Agrawal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vinamra Agrawal<\/b><\/span>, 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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David Bevly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

David Bevly<\/b><\/span>, the Bill and Lana McNair Professor of mechanical engineering, received $444,000 in total awards for GPS and alternative positioning, navigation and timing research since November.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ben Bowers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Benjamin Bowers<\/b><\/span>, assistant professor of pavements and materials engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering, was elected to be a director-at-large on the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists Board of Directors.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pengyu Chen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pengyu Chen<\/b><\/span>, assistant professor of materials engineering, received a $900,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for leukemia cell mapping and immunotherapy research.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lorenzo Cremaschi and Selen Cremaschi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lorenzo Cremaschi<\/b><\/span>, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and <\/span>Selen Cremaschi<\/b><\/span>, the B. Redd Professor of chemical engineering, were awarded a $1.8 million grant from the Department of Energy for their research on new \u201crefrigerant-free\u201d technology for building humidity control.<\/span><\/p>\n

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James Davidson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

James Davidson<\/b><\/span>, the Gottlieb Professor of structural engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering, received an $800,000 grant from the Battelle Memorial Institute for structural engineering research. Civil engineering faculty members <\/span>Brian Anderson<\/b><\/span>, <\/span>Justin Marshall<\/b><\/span> and <\/span>David Roueche<\/b><\/span> are co-principal investigators.<\/span><\/p>\n

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George Flowers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

George Flowers<\/b><\/span>, professor of mechanical engineering and dean of the Graduate School, received the Glenn Howze Academic Freedom Award from the American Association of University Professors\u2019 Auburn chapter.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Greg Harris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Greg Harris<\/b><\/span>, associate professor of industrial and systems engineering, received an Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award from Auburn University\u2019s Graduate Student Council.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pradeep Lall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pradeep Lall<\/b><\/span>, the John and Anne MacFarlane Professor of mechanical engineering, received $1 million in total awards for flexible electronics research since January.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jasmeet Lamba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jasmeet Lamba<\/b><\/span>, assistant professor of biosystems engineering, was awarded a $500,000 grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture to advance understanding of heavy metal transport processes in agricultural fields applied with animal waste.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Shiwen Mao<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Shiwen Mao<\/b><\/span>, the Samuel Ginn Endowed Professor of electrical and computer engineering, and his students Chao Yang and Xuyu Wang received a Best Paper Award from the 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference for their work on RFID-based driving fatigue detection. He and his students Xuyu Wang and Lingjun Gao also received a Best Journal Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society Multimedia Communications Technical Committee for their work on deep learning-based indoor localization.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Scott Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Scott Martin,<\/strong> assistant research professor of mechanical engineering, received $590,000 in total awards for GPS and alternative positioning, navigation and timing research since November.<\/p>\n

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Mark Schall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mark Schall<\/b><\/span>, associate professor of industrial and systems engineering, was appointed to the editorial boards of the journal Human Factors and the International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Anton Schindler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anton Schindler<\/b><\/span>, the Mountain Spirit Professor of structural engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering, was named vice chair of the ACI Foundation\u2019s Scholarship Council.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Alice Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alice Smith<\/b><\/span>, the Joe W. Forehand\/Accenture Distinguished Professor of industrial and systems engineering with a joint appointment in computer science and software engineering, is editor of a new book, \u201cWomen in Industrial and Systems Engineering.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Yin Sun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yin Sun<\/b><\/span>, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, along with three co-authors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, published a new book titled \u201cAge of Information: A New Metric for Information Freshness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bruce Tatarchuk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bruce Tatarchuk<\/b><\/span>, the Charles E. Gavin III Professor of chemical engineering, received a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Navy for research on high-power battery systems.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jakita Thomas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jakita Thomas<\/b><\/span>, the Philpott-WestPoint Stevens Associate Professor of computer science and software engineering, is co-editor of a Forum for Association of Computing Machinery\u2019s (ACM) Interactions magazine called \u201cIntersectionality in HCI\u201d (human-computer interaction). She is also the co-editor of a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Computing Education titled \u201cSituating the Intersectional Experiences of Black Girls and Women in Computing and Technology\u200b.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Brian Thurow and Mike Hamilton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brian Thurow<\/b><\/span>, the W. Allen and Martha Reed Professor and chair of the Department\u00a0 <\/span>of Aerospace Engineering, and <\/span>Michael Hamilton<\/b><\/span>, professor of electrical and computer engineering, received a $585,775 grant from the U.S. Air Force for a project titled \u201cMiniature Imaging Systems for Embedded Internal Flow Field Measurements in High-Speed Ground Test Facilities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Randy West<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Randy West<\/b><\/span>, director of the National Center for Asphalt Technology, received an $800,000 grant from the National Academy of Sciences for a project researching pavement performance.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Levent Yilmaz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Levent Yilmaz<\/b><\/span>, professor of computer science and software engineering, was named a fellow of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. 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