Electrical and Computer Engineering News

Not only is Nicholas Rush a double-major in electrical engineering and aerospace engineering, he's also a research assistant at the Auburn Nanosystems Group.

Senior 1 of 8 nationally to earn Sigma Gamma Tau award
12/1/21 1:05 PM

The award recognizes Nicholas Rush, who represents the organization’s South-Central region, as one of the top seniors in the U.S. based on academic, service and extracurricular accomplishments.
Kenneth Kelly

#GINNing Podcast: The Kenneth Kelly Experience
11/19/21 4:11 PM

For Kenneth Kelly, '90 electrical engineering, giving is a part of living. Find out why the chairman and CEO of First Independence Bank — and the first African American to chair the Auburn Alumni Engineering Council — is so passionate about committing his time, energy and resources to his alma mater.
Peng Li and collaborators investigated the feasibility of quantum transduction systems in an all-chip-on-chip format.

Professor earns award for study on hybrid quantum devices
11/16/21 2:05 PM

Peng Li and co-collaborators, received the International Joint Award by the U.S. Air Force Science Lab Asian Office of Aerospace R&D and the National Research Foundation of South Korea.
Adit Singh, Fai Foster Dai, and Dongye Zhao were recognized for outstanding achievements in outreach and graduate faculty leadership, respectively.

Three engineering professors among AU Faculty Award winners
11/11/21 12:00 PM

Adit Singh, Fai Foster Dai, and Dongye Zhao, were recognized for outstanding achievements in outreach and graduate faculty leadership, respectively.
Engineering Spirit Week will feature a week of student-centered support activities sponsored by various student service offices.

College hosting Engineering Spirit Week
11/4/21 3:43 PM

The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering kicks off a week of student-centered events with Spirit Week, Nov. 8-12.
Michael Bolt believes that the coolest thing about working for SpaceX is the company’s culture of thinking that nothing is impossible.

Alumnus looks to stars, builds vessels to reach them at SpaceX
11/2/21 10:00 AM

As an avionics test engineer at SpaceX, Michael Bolt helps develop and write software for production test systems.
Professors Michael C. Hamilton, Shuai Shao, Masoud Mahjouri-Samani, and Nima Shamsaei.

Professors awarded $500K grant to resolve eco-unfriendly printing issue
10/18/21 8:00 AM

The team’s research demonstrates a transformative dry additive nanomanufacturing approach that enables the printing of eco-friendly papertronics.

Justin Tran will begin a career at the Southern Company upon graduation in 2022.

Senior in ECE named Frank Vandergrift Co-op Student of the Year for 2021
10/7/21 9:00 AM

Justin Tran is a testament to why the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering’s cooperative education (CO-OP) program should be strongly considered by undergraduates desiring hands-on experience before entering the workforce.
Dr. Ujjwal Guin, assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering, with graduate students Yadi Zhong, Yuqiao Zhang, and Ziqi Zhou.

ECE graduate students are competition-proven and career-ready
9/28/21 12:00 PM

Three graduate students – Yadi Zhong, Yuqiao Zhang and Ziqi Zhou – won the HACK@Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES) 2021 Challenge, held virtually Sept. 15-17, just a month after finishing runner-up at HACK@SEC21.
The 2021 Auburn Alumni Engineering Council award winners included T.J. Pruitt, Outstanding Young Auburn Engineer; Ryan Hill, Outstanding Young Auburn Engineer; Brad Corson, Distinguished Auburn Engineer; Gerald Pouncey, Distinguished Auburn Engineer; Regenia Sanders, Distinguished Auburn Engineer; Carol Godfrey, Distinguished Auburn Engineer; Zeke Smith, Distinguished Auburn Engineer; Bob Karcher, Superior Service; and Ed Lewis, Distinguished Auburn Engineer. (Not pictured: Rose-Gaëlle Belinga, Outstanding Young Auburn Engineer)

Auburn Alumni Engineering Council honors 10 with college’s highest awards
9/27/21 12:30 PM

Nine outstanding engineering alumni and one longtime employee of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering were honored during a ceremony Friday, Sept. 24, by the Auburn Alumni Engineering Council for their distinguished professional careers. These alumni include six who were recognized as Distinguished Auburn Engineers, three as Outstanding Young Auburn Engineers and the college’s former assistant dean of student services for his Superior Service.
Masoud Mahjouri-Samani, assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering, tests samples on micro chips with graduate student Parvin Fathi-Hafshejani.

Auburn engineers create device that instantly reveals COVID test results
9/10/21 12:02 PM

Patients designated COVID-19 positive at official testing sites would have an opportunity to seek treatment sooner rather than later.

Yadi Zhong (seated), Yuquiao Zhang and Ziqi Zhou, graduate students mentored by Dr. Ujjwal Guin, assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering, took second place at the HACK@SEC21 hardware and security competition.

Students place second at world's largest hardware security competition
9/7/21 8:20 AM

Three graduate students in electrical and computer engineering, Yadi Zhong, Yuquiao Zhang, and Ziqi Zhou, identified bugs and wrote code to exploit vulnerabilities within computer chips and took second place in the virtual, 33-team HACK@SEC21.
Jacob Quattlebaum

#GINNing Podcast: Auburn electrical engineering student snaps
9/2/21 3:30 PM

Electrical engineering? It's a snap. At least it is for senior Jacob Quattlebaum, long snapper extraordinaire for the Auburn Tigers. Learn how ol' Q-Ball makes the grade in the classroom and on the gridiron? Hut, hut...
Vicki McLendon, a senior in CSSE, said events such as Cyber Fire help make students more marketable as they progress into the job market.

Cyber Fire Challenge provides real-world, code-cracking experience
9/2/21 12:50 PM

Thirty-five Samuel Ginn College of Engineering students and two Alabama National Guard members signed up to crack cryptic codes, discovered cyber anomalies, and investigate for potential malware during the third Cyber Fire Puzzles Cyber Security Challenge.
Xiaowen Gong

Exploration into wireless machine learning results in NSF grant
8/19/21 8:00 AM

Xiaowen Gong, assistant professor in electrical engineering, awarded $220,000 grant to study wireless federated learning in order to achieve collaborative intelligence.
An autonomous robot built by the Auburn University Robotic Mining Challenge Team.

Auburn robotics team excels in NASA LUNABOTICS Challenge
8/10/21 9:00 AM

The Auburn University Robotic Mining Challenge Team recently placed 12th in the NASA RMC LUNABOTICS Challenge, an annual competition offering students practical experience in the full engineering lifecycle.
Shiwen Mao

NSF awards $320,000 grant toward wireless research
8/10/21 7:00 AM

Shiwen Mao, professor in electrical and computer engineering, seeks means to provide sufficient data in order to train complex machine learning models for wireless technology research
Peng Li will receive $5,000 in seed research money from Oak Ridge Associated Universities.

Professor in ECE wins Powe junior faculty award
7/28/21 8:00 AM

Peng Li, who leads the college's Quantum Spintronics Device Laboratory, was granted $5,000 in seed money by Oak Ridge Associated Universities to further his research.
Ujjwal Guin

#GINNing Podcast: Assistant ECE professor talks White House citation
7/9/21 12:00 PM

Assistant electrical and computer engineering professor Ujjwal Guinn is picking up good citations.

Brooks Moore

Engineering alumni among Auburn's 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award recipients
6/4/21 1:50 PM

Two Auburn Engineering graduates have been selected to receive the highest honor given by the Auburn Alumni Association at Auburn’s 2021 Lifetime Achievement Awards ceremony June 12.

Graduate students, faculty honored at spring graduate school awards
6/4/21 1:33 PM

The Auburn University Graduate School recently honored 15 engineering students and faculty at the annual graduate student spring awards virtual ceremony.

Shiwen Mao

Professor wins IEEE Communications Society’s best paper award
5/27/21 8:43 AM

Electrical and computer engineering professor Shiwen Mao, along with several collaborators, won the IEEE Communications Society's 2021 Outstanding Paper Award.

"Green (520 nm) femtosecond laser used for micro/nano fabrication.

Faculty research group sparks quantum research collaboration
5/26/21 12:00 AM

Auburn researchers have established the Auburn University Quantum Systems (AUQuaS) interdisciplinary research group to further the upcoming research area, quantum, by spurring interdisciplinary collaboration within the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering and the College of Science and Mathematics.
The Auburn Alumni Engineering Council was established in 1965 and is a group of Auburn Engineering alumni who work together to support the vision and goals of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.

Auburn Alumni Engineering Council inducts Class of 2026
5/11/21 3:00 PM

The Auburn Alumni Engineering Council inducted seven new members to the group during its annual spring meeting May 7, which was held remotely due to COVID-19.
The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering recently honored outstanding departmental alumni in a virtual awards ceremony.

Auburn Engineering recognizes 2020-2021 outstanding alumni
5/10/21 1:55 PM

The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering recently recognized outstanding departmental alumni from 2020 and 2021 in a virtual ceremony.

New directors and officers have been appointed to the Auburn University Foundation. Pictured are: (back left) Joseph L. Cowan, John Morris, Paul Jacobson, Patrick T. Henry, (front left) Cheryl Casey and Shirley Frazier Boulware.

New directors, officers appointed to Auburn University Foundation Board
5/10/21 8:58 AM

The Auburn University Foundation has appointed three new directors to its board: Shirley Frazier Boulware '91 of Tyrone, Georgia; Joseph L. Cowan '70 of Braselton, Georgia; and Patrick T. Henry ’85 of Birmingham, Alabama. The board also named Cheryl Casey ’83 of Denver, Colorado, as its new chair and Paul Jacobson ’94 of Marietta, Georgia, as vice chair.
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Eight Auburn students selected to study Alabama matters with fellows from Stanford’s Hoover Institution
5/10/21 8:02 AM

Eight Auburn University students are the first from the Plains to partner with fellows at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution in conducting research and initiatives for the Alabama Innovation Commission.
A graduate student presents her research at the annual Graduate Summer Seminar Series.

Annual Graduate Summer Seminar Series accepting submissions
5/5/21 12:58 PM

The annual Graduate Summer Seminar Series, hosted by the Center for Polymer and Advanced Composites at Auburn University, is accepting abstract submissions through May 14.

Kenneth Kelly

Distinguished alum Kelly offers encouragement, words of wisdom to graduates at Auburn’s spring commencement
5/4/21 1:00 PM

Greeting a gathering of students clad in caps and gowns with a plethora of “War Eagle!” calls, Auburn University alumnus Kenneth Kelly helped his alma mater kick off its spring commencement weekend at Jordan-Hare Stadium Friday night with a call for graduates to reach high as they embark on their next journey.
Outstanding student award winners representing each department in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.

Auburn Engineering honors student and faculty achievement
4/22/21 10:19 AM

The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering recognized outstanding students and faculty in an awards ceremony held Wednesday.

Yin Sun (left) and Benjamin Cyr

Engineering research duo win Best Paper Award for work on data freshness
4/20/21 4:55 PM

Researchers Yin Sun and Benjamin Cyr won the 2021 Best Paper Award from the Journal of Communications and Networks for a paper in which they used non-linear functions of the age of information to measure data freshness.
Kenneth Kelly

Kenneth Kelly to address Auburn University graduates at spring graduation
3/30/21 9:00 AM

Prominent banking executive and philanthropist Kenneth Kelly will address Auburn’s spring 2021 graduates at 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 30, in Jordan-Hare Stadium, kicking off the university’s commencement weekend. Kelly, a 1990 Auburn graduate with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering who also holds an MBA from the University of Alabama, is chairman and CEO of First Independence Bank of Detroit, the seventh-largest African American-controlled bank in the country, and chairman of MAC Leasing, a Michigan-based and minority-owned equipment lease financier. He currently serves on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Advisory Committee on Community Banking, sits on the American Bankers Association Board of Directors and recently completed a three-year term on the Federal Reserve Bank’s Seventh District Community Depository Institution Advisory Council.
The Auburn University Office of Cooperative Education has joined the Engineering Office of Career Development and Corporate Relations.

AU Office of Cooperative Education joins College of Engineering
3/17/21 9:52 AM

The Auburn University Office of Cooperative Education has joined the Engineering Office of Career Development and Corporate Relations, and remains committed to serving the entire campus community.

Xiaowen Gong

Auburn Engineering professor named associate editor at IEEE journal
3/4/21 2:02 PM

Xiaowen Gong, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, was recently appointed as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, a scientific journal that advances the theories and applications of wireless communications systems and networks.
Vania Bynum with former President William Muse.

First Black Miss Auburn reflects on Auburn experience
2/26/21 11:02 AM

Vania Bynum, '94 computer engineering, reflects on the "amazing experience" of making history as the first Black Miss Auburn in 1993, 57 years after the establishment of the program.
Kenneth Kelly

Chair of AU Alumni Engineering Council reflects on historic first year
2/22/21 2:00 PM

For Kenneth Kelly, ’90 electrical engineering, giving back of his time, talent and treasure is something he considers a duty and an honor. Kelly, who serves as the first African American to chair the Auburn Alumni Engineering Council in its 55-year history, has supported Auburn in a myriad of ways since his graduation more than 30 years ago, but he considers his time with the council as something extra special.
Dewayne Sanders

Electrical engineering grad shares the secrets to ExxonMobil success
2/16/21 3:55 PM

Dewayne Sanders, '90 electrical engineering, is continuing his 30-year engineering career with ExxonMobil and says his Auburn education was a solid foundation for the career he was able to build. 
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10 Auburn engineers named to 2020 Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll
2/10/21 11:41 AM

Ten Auburn Engineering student-athletes earned a selection to the 2020 Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll, the conference office announced Tuesday.
The virtual Engineering and Technology Career Fair will take place Feb. 10-11.

Auburn Engineering to host virtual Engineering and Technology Career Fair
2/5/21 3:44 PM

A virtual Engineering and Technology Career Fair, hosted by the Auburn University Career Center and the Office of Career Development and Corporate Relations in the College of Engineering, will be held Feb. 10-11.
Representatives from four engineering employers will discuss various buzzwords in the workplace in a virtual panel on Thursday.

Upcoming employer panel to discuss breaking down buzzwords
1/19/21 3:15 PM

The Office of Career Development and Corporate Relations kicks off its 2021 Employer Panel Series with a virtual discussion titled "Breaking Down Buzzwords" on Thurs., Jan. 21 at 4:30 p.m.
Researchers in the National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence are shown conducting fatigue testing.

Auburn Engineering posts banner year for research in fiscal year 2020
12/23/20 10:23 AM

The Auburn University Samuel Ginn College of Engineering has again posted a banner year for externally sponsored projects, bringing in more than $74 million in awards during fiscal year 2020. 
Shiwen Mao (left) and Xuyu Wang

Auburn researchers awarded IEEE Jack Neubauer Memorial Award
12/15/20 4:23 PM

Auburn researchers Shiwen Mao, Xuyu Wang, Lingjun Gao and Santosh Pandey were awarded the 2020 Jack Neubauer Memorial Award for producing the best paper published in the past five years for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.
Students are pictured with the Quantum Design Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS) DynaCool in Broun Hall.

Auburn purchases new technology to advance quantum research
12/3/20 9:11 AM

Auburn University's Broun Hall is now home to a Quantum Design Physical Property Measurement System that will allow faculty and students to advance research in materials for quantum information science.
Yin Sun

Auburn professor authors book on Age of Information concept
11/18/20 4:31 PM

Yin Sun, an electrical and computer engineering assistant professor, collaborated with a research group from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to produce the book, "Age of Information: A New Metric for Information Freshness."
Engineering Spirit Week events will kick off on Wednesday, Nov. 18.

College to host Engineering Spirit Week events
11/12/20 3:20 PM

The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering will host a series of events to celebrate Engineering Spirit Week, kicking off on Wednesday, Nov. 18 on the Gavin Gardens in front of the Brown-Kopel Engineering Student Achievement Center.

From left, CEGS faculty advisor and aerospace engineering department chair Brian Thurow; Billur Kazaz, civil and environmental engineering graduate student; Vinita Shinde, chemical engineering graduate student; Jacob Larson, mechanical engineering graduate student; and Maria Auad, associate dean for graduate studies and faculty development.

Finish in Five competition fosters strong presentation skills
11/9/20 8:25 AM

The Council of Engineering Graduate Students recently hosted the 2020 Finish in Five grand finale. Billur Kazaz, graduate student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was awarded the top prize.
Adit Singh (left) and Fa Foster Dai

Auburn Engineering faculty members named Godbold Chairs
11/4/20 4:09 PM

Fa Foster Dai and Adit Singh, electrical and computer engineering professors, have been named Bryghte D. and Patricia M. Godbold Chairs. The distinguished title is awarded to faculty members who show a commitment to student instruction and a dedication to quality research. 
Masoud Mahjouri-Samani

Auburn faculty member appointed to two editorial roles at journals
9/29/20 4:04 PM

Auburn Engineering’s Masoud Mahjouri-Samani was recently appointed as senior editor of the Journal of Laser Applications (JLA) and associate editor of the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing (IJEM).
The Auburn Alumni Engineering Council recognized five alumni as Distinguished Auburn Engineers, three as Outstanding Young Auburn Engineers and the college’s former director of communications and marketing for his Superior Service.

AU Alumni Engineering Council honors nine with college’s highest awards
9/28/20 9:00 AM

Eight outstanding alumni and one longtime employee of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering were honored during a virtual ceremony Friday, Sept. 25, by the Auburn Alumni Engineering Council for their distinguished professional careers. These alumni include five who were recognized as Distinguished Auburn Engineers, three as Outstanding Young Auburn Engineers and the college’s former director of communications and marketing for his Superior Service.
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