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Lauren Beckingham

Civil and Environmental Engineering

W. Allen and Martha Reed Associate Professor (Environmental)

Ginn Faculty Achievement Fellow

Associate Department Chair

201 Harbert Center

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Education

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
B.S. Environmental Engineering, Michigan Technological University

Research Interests

Mineral Reactions and Reaction Rates in Porous Media
Multi-Scale Imaging of Dynamic Porous Media
Porosity-Permeability Evolution in Reactive Porous Media
Subsurface Energy Systems (compressed energy storage, geologic CO2 sequestration, enhanced oil recovery, hydraulic fracturing)
Multi-Scale Reactive Transport

In The News

Doctoral student in civil and environmental engineering earns DOE research award

Nora Lopez Rivera, doctoral student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was honored with a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award.

Civil and Environmental Engineering postdoctoral researcher receives computational hydraulic award

Md Fahim Salek, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been honored with the 2024 Paul F. Boulos Excellence in Computational Hydraulics/Hydrology Award.

NSF award to significantly boost Auburn metal AM qualification research

A successful Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) proposal funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) will soon significantly boost researchers at Auburn University's National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence (NCAME) in model-assisted qualification for additive manufacturing (AM) by establishing microstructure-property relationships in AM metallic materials.

CEE professor leads NSF project aimed at renewable energy education

A collaborative $139,375 National Science Foundation (NSF) project led by Lauren Beckingham, W. Allen and Martha Reed Endowed Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Karen McNeal, Molette Endowed Professor of geosciences in the College of Sciences and Mathematics, and Tuskegee University mechanical engineering professor John Solomon, aims to grow a much-needed workforce for renewable energy industries.

Assistant civil and environmental engineering professor earns DOE Early Career Award

Last week, Lauren Beckingham went from Early Career Award winner to Early Career Awards winner. The assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering received her latest Early Career honor from the Department of Energy (DOE), which awarded $749,999 toward her research into subsurface hydrogen storage — a promising means of large-scale, long-term energy storage that could boost renewable energy and reduce atmospheric CO2 emissions.

Auburn Engineering faculty named to 2022 promotion, tenure list

Numerous Auburn Engineering faculty were included on the provost's list of those who were awarded promotion, tenure or both for 2022.

Civil and environmental professor is first recipient of new award series

The accolades for Lauren Beckingham continue to pile up. The civil and environmental engineering assistant professor, who in 2019 received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early CAREER Development award for her work in environmental engineering, and in 2020 secured a NSF Major Research Instrumentation Award, is now the first recipient of the Emerging Investigator award from the Journal of Applied Geochemistry presented by the International Association of Geochemistry.

Assistant professors to 3D print reactive rocks with innovative NSF award

Assistant professors Lauren Beckingham and Bryan Beckingham are collaborating on a project to 3D print reactive rocks to study geochemical reactions.

Auburn University civil engineering assistant professor earns major NSF Award

An assistant professor in the Auburn University Department of Civil Engineering has been recognized with a National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation Award worth more than $865,000. Lauren Beckingham, who was also awarded an NSF Faculty Early CAREER Development Award in 2019, will serve as the principal investigator on the project, with the award supporting the acquisition of an X-ray Computed Nanotomography (nanoCT) system equipped with in-situ mechanical and thermal material testing that enables fundamental research in biological, geological and engineered materials.

Auburn Engineering posts banner year in research

The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering brought in $59.6 million in externally sponsored research awards from Oct. 1, 2018 to Sept. 30, 2019. The college has also placed in the top 10% of engineering institutions in the nation for research expenditures for the past 15 years.

Civil engineering assistant professor receives NSF Early Career award

Lauren Beckingham, assistant professor of civil engineering, has been named a recipient of a National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Development award for her work in environmental engineering.