Samuel Ginn College of Engineering

Wireless Engineering Students Win NSA Scholarships

Mark Kuhr and Jonathan MacDonald, seniors in wireless engineering, have been awarded Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP) scholarships by the National Security Agency.

The two will receive the scholarships to pursue master's degrees in software engineering. A third student, Chase Taylor, was selected as the first alternate in the nationwide competition.
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Mechanical Engineering Captures Top Award for Research Paper

Auburn mechanical engineering graduate students Daniel Pate from Castleberry, Ala., and Rory Jones from Fort Payne, Ala., and faculty member Sushil Bhavnani were awarded first place for their poster presentation "Cavity-Induced Two-Phase Heat Transfer in Silicon Microchannels" at the 10th Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm 2006) held earlier this month in San Diego. Read full story

Students Receive Tau Beta Pi Scholarships

Seniors Brian Downs, Jonathan Hill and Brian Sullivan have been selected as recipients of scholarships awarded by the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society. Downs and Sullivan are students in chemical engineering; Hill is a student in mechanical engineering. Read full story

Auburn Performs Well at AIAA Flight Competition

Students from Auburn's aerospace engineering program placed thirteenth overall at the annual American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Design/Build/Fly competition April 21-23 in Wichita, Kan. Auburn's team was the highest placing team among schools from the Southeast. It marked the first time Auburn has entered the competition. Read full story

Student Interns with GE's Technology Center

Pramod Rajan, graduate student in mechanical engineering, has been selected fora summer internship with the John Welch Global Research and Technology Center in Bangalore, India. He will be joining a select group of interns chosen from top engineering schools in the United States, India and other countries. Rajan will study with world renowned researchers and receive a stipend to cover his local expenses and travel. This is the first time an Auburn student has been selected for the program. Read full story

AU Students Receive Space Grant Consortium Fellowships and Scholarships

The Alabama Space Grant Consortium (ASGC) recently announced its 2006 fellowship and scholarship recipients. The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering enrolls two graduate fellowship winners and four undergraduate scholars. Read full story

Engineering Students Receive National Defense Fellowships

Taylor Owens, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, and Blake Webster, a graduate student in electrical engineering, each received a Space and Missile Defense Working Group fellowship from the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA). The winners were awarded a $2,000 prize and invited to attend a recognition ceremony during the NDIA-Tennessee Valley chapter's awards dinner, held May 4 in Huntsville. Owens and Webster were two of seven selected for this year's award. Read full story

Chemical Engineering Recognizes Graduate Students for Teaching

Asa D. Vaughan and Siddarth Venkatesh have been awarded the McLeod Outstanding Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Teaching award for summer 2005 and fall 2005, respectively. Read full story

Auburn Succeeds in Tractor Design Competition

Auburn's quarter scale tractor design team placed 13 at this year's ASABE International Quarter Scale Tractor Design Competition in Peoria, Ill. This is the team's highest finish at the competition, which they have been participating in for the past four years. Read full story