Noah's Ark? How about Joah's arc? Because if you feed freshman civil engineering Auburn basketballer Joah Shay the rock behind that 3-point line, he's going to straight up make it rain.

Jonathan Pettus is the new executive director of the Auburn University Applied Research Institute (AUARI) in Huntsville. Find out why on the latest episode of the best podcast in higher education.

She'll be honest — growing up in Denver, Shelby Balding had never heard of Auburn. Now, the civil engineering junior and cross-country crusader can't stop talking about it.  

This double-degreed  Auburn engineering apostle extraordinaire is just supportin' the team and livin' the dream. Her current mission field? Greater Nashville, a.k.a. Auburn North, where she's been winning the respect and confidence of her fellow men with a can-do swagger that certainly staggers. It's she, it's she... it's Kristin McGhee. 

They call Vestavia-born venture visionary Vince Visser Mr. Mister. Or at least they should. Find out why on the latest episode of the best podcast in higher education. (Or just click here.)

Next up on the best podcast in higher education? CSSE sophomore Liam Heary, who hopes his sweet and salty startup Planet of Snacks has the lucky charms necessary to secure the pot of gold in Tiger Cage Student Business Idea Competition's. 

A word of advice to the Louisiana State University: Make your campus a little more walk-able, or continue losing out to the best student-centered — and pedestrian-centered — engineering education experience in America, like you did with aerospace engineering undergraduate researcher extraordinaire Mary Ferguson. (Just trying to help.)

Senior computer science and software engineering major Sathvik Prahadeeswaran discusses his engineering journey — past, present and future — on the latest episode of the best podcast in higher education.

Be it on the bars, in the classroom, Emma Grace Boyd is on her way to a Tide-tamin', big-brainin' total score you can't ignore.Listen to our conversation with the sophomore biosystems engineering major on the latest episode of the best podcast in higher education.

Masoud Mahjouri-Samani, Godbold Associate Professor in electrical and computer engineering, is involved in many things. Space things. Manufacturing things. Laser things. Important things. Things, things, things. 

Talk about net worth! Yes, mechanically minded tennis talent (and Lady Tiger legacy) Julie Bedard goes hard — on the court, in the classroom, in life in dang general. In other words, Advantage Auburn. 

Auburn Creed? More like Auburn Speed. Check out the #GINNing gang's conversation with Samantha Korac, vehicle dynamics and controls engineer for Auburn's Autonomous Tiger Racing team, who recently helped steer the GAVLAB's gears around the Las Vegas Motor Speedway at up to 170 driver-less miles per hour. Listen below, or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts by searching #GINNing.

This senior wants nothing more than to use her communication skills and knack for logistics to help people and overcome the world's greatest challenges. Which is to say, when it comes to selling the strengths and benefits of industrial and systems engineering, nobody's struttin' like Madison Dutton.

From the woods of Columbiana to the Costa da Caparica, junior Anna Carter is living the dream, Birdsonging her away around this great material world of ours one extra engineering mile at a time. 

Brendon Allen has some exoskeletons in his closet, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) wants to find out more about them.The assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering was recently tapped for a five-year $588,408 NSF CAREER Award aimed at increasing access to rehabilitation for individuals with movement disorders through a deep learning control framework for home-based hybrid exoskeletons.

Assistant computer science professor by day, computational biologist by day, medical doctor by day — Haynes Heaton does it all. Great news for Auburn. Bad news for leukemia. 

The legacy of leadership with the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering's Office of Advancement continues. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back Jon Wilson. 

Bradley Johnson didn't just want the paper — he wanted Auburn Engineering. Listen to our conversation with the premiere ambassador for one of the highest-ranked online master's of engineering programs in the country on the latest episode of the best podcast in higher education. 

He may work in Wilmore. But materials engineering program chair Bart Prorok does his thinking outside the box. 

Nintendo? More like GINNtendo. Because senior Caitlinn White, a chemical engineering undergraduate researcher in Auburn's acclaimed Nuclear Power Generation Systems minor who's focusing on developing virtual reality simulations of nuclear concepts, is definitely playing with power. 

As a child, Avry Prewitt’s world was filled with construction — Lego towers, pillow forts and elaborate Minecraft creations. That early passion for building grew into a planet-saving purpose. Learn all about the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering's latest wastewater wunderkind — and the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering's latest graduation marshal — on the latest episode of the best podcast in higher education. 

He’s fresh off a win at the 2024 SEC Machining competition in Starkville, working through several pitch competitions en route to Tiger Cage, majoring in industrial and systems engineering, minoring in business engineering technology, and working for the weekend at Auburn Engineering's renowned Interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Manufacturing Systems. In other words, the Moose is loose. Listen to the #GINNing gang's conversation with senior Johnathan Deery on the latest episode of the best podcast in higher education. 

STEM advocating influencer extraordinaire Ruha Tacey may have hit the social media stratosphere. But she hasn't forgotten her roots. Learn about the 2012 chemical engineering graduate's Auburn journey and plans for the future on the latest episode of the best podcast in higher education. 

From high kicks to high efficiency, from the dance line to the supply line, Nyah Dedeaux does it all. Listen to the industrial and systems engineering senior discuss her Auburn journey on the latest episode of the best podcast in higher education. 

We've always said "never let a good tomato go to waste." Unless, of course, Bipasyana Dhungana could use it to change the world. Listen to our conversation with the biosystems engineering graduate student and ASABE all-star on the latest episode of the best podcast in higher education. 

From the mountains of Nevada to the doors of Wiggins Hall, Avery Wells will fight our country's battle with his degree — mechanical.

The latest episode of the best podcast in higher education explores the drive and determination of mechanical engineering sophomore Jenna Sapong, who knows a little bit about keeping goals.

Word to your moms — Ben Bauldree came to drop bombs. Check out the explosive interview with the Auburn aerospace engineering alumnus and pickle pro on the latest episode of the best podcast in higher education. 

Where there's a Wills, there's a way. And an adjustable cup holders for chairs. And a magic cable machine attachment. And, from the sounds of it, an unbelievably bright future. The other thing this Crook has stolen is our hearts. Listen to industrial and systems engineering senior Wills Crook discuss his Auburn-born aspirations on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast.

Is there some sort of hocus pocus behind Phedra Peter's fervid focus? Is it just that the industrial and systems engineering junior and student leader superstar believes work — hard work? Find out on the latest episode of the best podcast in higher education.

Go ahead and call her Miss Mercedes. Because this Jersey-born mechanical engineering senior and Design and Manufacturing Lab devotee has logged more internship hours in Vance, Alabama than LinkedIn can count. Haley Bhend? More like Haley Benz. 

Parker Lewis couldn't lose. And neither can Parker Thomas. From touring Würzburg to securing the World Wide Web, this cybersecurity engineering grad student has synchronized his Swatch for success. 

Second lieutenant in the Air Force. Three-time Space Camp alum. Third-generation Auburn grad. Second-generation Auburn Engineering grad. ChemE grad student. Graduate Research Assistant. Future astronaut. Future president of Mars. (Don't worry — Handel can handle it.) 

When it comes to diabetes, America is unfortunately rolling in the deep. Enter 2013 Auburn mechanical engineering grad Mark Norton, co-founder of Adele. After all, be it glucose levels or insulin levels, who better to help people take portable, personal control of their diabetic deets than a man who worked for a sweet little company called Apple? 

All right Tiger Fans — let's get it up for a podcast. Senior Ben Timm is one of the leaders down in the Design and Manufacturing Lab in Wiggins Hall. He’s the guy in charge of teaching folks how to machine safely. He chose mechanical engineering because he loved working with his hands. But for the next year, he'll be better known for working with his voice. Are you ready?

From Sand Mountain to American Water, from commencement stages to the NYT business pages, 1981 industrial engineering graduate Susan Story's legacy of leadership is as dynamic as they come. 

Someone has to manage that beautiful, 1.7-mile oval over at the National Center for Asphalt Technology. And DOTs across the fruited, asphalted plains better be thanking their lucky, trucky stars — that someone is Jason Nelson. 

From the Loveliest Village of the Plain comes Mari Miles Dempsey, a senior chemical engineering honors student concentrating in biomedical engineering, and currently researching the effect of acoustics in the growth and further development of physarum polycephalum in the Nature Inspired Fluids and Elasticity Lab at Auburn University. In other words, it's slime time. 

Learn the origin story of an Auburn Engineering ChemE commando on the latest episode of the #GINNing Podcast. Ladies and gentlemen, JaVaris Branford. 

Learn about Auburn's latest College of Engineering grad marshal, Ben Steber. This engineer may not have borders. But he's definitely about to have a banner.

Hey Office of Naval Research, why don't you give assistant electrical and computer engineering professor Matthew Kirchner $307,000, and in return he'll figure out which control sequences and flight conditions make it possible for trained pilots to land in the event of engine failure. Sound good? OK, let's make a deal.

No one engineers like Gaston, Polymers like Gaston, Does confidential research work like Gaston, As a grad student, yes, she's intimidating, My what a gal, Gaston...

Cupola Engineering Ambassadors. American Society of Civil Engineers. 100+ Women Strong. Society of Women Engineers. Undergraduate research. Chick-fil-A. Rising civil engineering senior Evelyn Chavez does it all. 

Plucked from the plastic producing province of El Salvador,  Lucila Carias, protege of Auburn polymer pundit Maria Auad, and a bio-resin backing GRA in the Department of Chemical Engineering, is researching ways to 3D print — yep — houses. 

Meagan Blosser, outgoing president of Auburn University's Top-20 Design, Build, Fly team, doesn't care how you pronounce her name, because this new Auburn aerospace engineering alumna definitely knows how to... go with the flow.Listen to Blosser describe how she's spreading her wings on the latest episode of the best podcast in higher education.

Which upcoming bioprocesses engineering senior is grabbing undergraduate research by the horns in order to harness the power of pectin for skincare applications? Which student leader overachiever is ready to make a believer out of Unilever? Yep, it's Jada Neal. She's the real deal.

The name's Beretta — Stefano Beretta. Learn the origin story of this world-class structural integrity scholar who recently joined Auburn's National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence to assist on several projects focused on developing defect-sensitive predictive fatigue models for AM materials. Topics discussed include additive manufacturing, salary cuts, salami and James Bond. 

Great name. Fresh ideas. Yep, enjoy this conversation with biosystems engineering doctoral student Wellington Arthur on long-term nutrient utilization and evaluation of pathogenic bacteria in a pilot-scale wastewater treatment system for hydroponic irrigation — and lettuce. 

From Albuquerque to Auburn, Los Almosin', Lipke Labbin' ChemE commando Nicole Habbit has found the Loveliest Village a hard habit to break.

Marisa Kelley.  Just graduated materials engineering major. Knows who Madonna is. And Tom Petty. In other words, basically a genius. (You're welcome, Florida.)

With yet another internship locked up at Lockheed, Jersey born aerospace aficionado Ava Grelli is going places — and Boeing places. So buckle up and get your ears on because this rocket retriever overachiever is racing toward space at a breakneck space. 

Four years ago, Jack Branham was torn."While I was going through college selection, I wasn't planning on being an engineer. I wanted to be a music major," said Branham, a graduating senior and researcher in mechanical engineering from Montgomery. "But I had as much passion for engineering as I had for music.  Auburn has a great music program, but it's also a great engineering school. Ultimately, I made the decision to switch to engineering."Judging by his most recent accolade, it was the right one.Listen to Branham breakdown his Auburn journey and discuss his ambitious plans for the future on the latest episode of the best podcast in all of higher education. 

Turner Friday is hitting the road this summer... for two and a half months. The industrial and systems engineering sophomore is raising money for those with disabilities through a cross-country bike ride sure to make memories — and make a difference. And you can help.Hear him discuss his Auburn Engineering journey — and his upcoming journey from San Francisco to Miami — on the latest episode of the best podcast in higher education below, or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts by searching #GINNing.

Mechanical engineering junior and Auburn swimming sensation Mason Mathias can follow that black line like nobody's business. In the pool, in the classroom, the Lad from Leeds is constantly in the lead. We're talking trainin', we're talkin' brainin'... we're talkin' Mason Mathias. 

Things are really heating up for Thomas Lester. The fourth-generation Auburn Man and sophomore in industrial and systems engineering recently sat down with the #GINNing gang to discuss how his early morning caffeine cravings spawned an entrepreneurial empire in the making. 

Meet biosystems engineering sophomore Bella Nonales, a dean's list dynamo with a chance of making history as the drummiest major in the history of the Auburn University Marching Band. Not bad for someone who just celebrated her 5th birthday. 

On the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast, meet biosystems engineering sophomore Maddie Spoor, an Auburn Engineering double legacy who's getting the earliest jump possible on undergraduate research in order to blaze her own trail. 

The man, the myth, the unincorporated legend. Ladies and gentlemen — senior mechanical engineering lecturer, undergraduate program officer, student advisor and director of the Design and Manufacturing Lab, Jordan Roberts. 

Cassandra Porter. Cassie Porter. Cass Porter. She goes by many names. And she has even more pursuits. She's a former professional ballerina. A current fossil hunter. And a day-jobbing assistant professor of chemical engineering. Curious? Well then join us as we pass through the walls of mystery surrounding this LinkedIn-less membrane maestro. 

When it comes to hacking, Emily Kimbrell ain't slacking. Listen to this former aspiring cinematographer turned white hat wunderkind (and undergraduate software engineering research fellow) discuss how Auburn is routing her career — and the largest hackathon in Alabama.

What to expect on the 251st episode of the best podcast in all of higher education? How about the origin story of geotechnical juggernaut Brian Anderson, a full-scale infrastructure inspiration who's girding the loins of this nation's foundations. 

From polymers to public administration, Olivia Cook is inspiring the nation. Listen to the 2014 polymer and fiber engineering graduate (with graduate degrees from Auburn in public policy and public administration) discuss how she's using lessons learned at Auburn to help change the world on the 250th episode of the best podcast in all of higher education. 

From the decathlon to biomechanics startups, mechanical engineering graduate student and track and field standout David Edmondson is clearing the bar — and then some. 

Parabolic telescopes... diamond-turning lathes...  few folks have taken advantage of Auburn Engineering's next-level makerspace like aerospace engineering senior Cyrus Lloyd. 

Girls go to college to get more knowledge. And, in Kanak Parmar's case, to get us to Jupiter a little less stupider. (You're welcome, Deep Space Network.)

When it comes to subjects like heat transfer, let's just say computer science and software engineering freshman Cameron Tilly's 90+ mile per hour fastball already has him a little ahead of the game. Learn why the top pitching prospect chose Auburn Engineering over Major League Baseball — for now — on the latest episode of the best podcast in higher education. 

Associate professor and associate chair in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering. Director of Computer Science and Software Engineering Undergraduate Programs. Director of Global Programs, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering. How does Dean Hendrix do it? Find out on the latest episode of the best podcast in all of higher education. 

Mechanical engineer. Soccer referee. eBay Powerseller. Graduate research assistant Christian Fauer does it all. 

Ali Khosravi, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, plans to dive deep into morphing skins on robotic systems designed to burrow deep for measuring soil structures. (In other words, robot worms.)

Got a friction addiction? Enjoy discussing discontinued syrup brands? Than get your ears on for the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast featuring chief of the Auburn tribe of student tribologists, mechanical engineering graduate research assistant Jack Janik. 

Auburn Engineering is helping animatronics aficionado Savanna Anderson fulfill her Disney dreams. Thank you, Asa Kalama.

After cracking his parents' password as a boy in Jordan, Farah Kandah, associate professor in computer science and software engineering, thankfully decided to use his knack for hacks as a force for good. These days, that's taking the form of next-level quantum computing education and mentoring the Auburn Ethical Hacking Club.

A chemical engineering honors student with an appetite for undergraduate research? You can bet your bottom dollar you'll be hearing about Camylle Lollar.  

She marched her way to the biosystems boss level and now this second-generation Auburn Engineer is reaping the rewards. Graduation marshal Natalie Hodge? That's an honor you can't dislodge.Listen to the graduating senior discuss her Auburn experience the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast.

No family connections, just an incredible sense of direction.Listen to software engineering senior Trevor Aupperle reflect on his college choice — and ponder his Prime potential — on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast.

Soon the roads will be paved with Silva. Listen to Brazilian-born civil engineering doctoral student Liz Pereira Valenca Silva discuss how her passion for pavement led her pursue a Ph.D. through Auburn's world-renowned National Center for Asphalt Technology on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast.   

At next year's Graduate Engineering Research Showcase, Ryan Pollard's professional passion might come in handy in more ways than one. Because if this first-year mechanical engineering student has to carry any more awards, he may need some rehabilitation robotics and assistive devices of his own. 

Time to howl about the double "wow" that is senior Katie Wolfe. Having emancipated herself from the Crimson craving expectations of her Bama grad parents, this electrical engineering — and theater design and technology — major is now on the prowl for greatness. Talk about an engineering spotlight...

The brand, the myth, the legend. Yes, it's time to run some tests on the tiger's blood of paddle boarding power broker and lifestyle luminary Corey Cooper, a 2005 mechanical engineering grad with a spirit unafraid to... rock the BOTE. 

This is the story of an engineering rebel who embraced Auburn sight unseen, fell in love with Aubie, broke Oxford's generational curse on her family, and tackled the greatest challenges for green infrastructure. Eat your heart out, Ole Miss.Listen to the award-winning #GINNing gang's interview with junior Kate Wilson, the new president of Auburn's chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Air Force Staff Sergeant Silvia Duff has built bunkers in Eastern Africa and written policy for emergency response plans and joint force agreements with America's NATO allies. In 2018, she was recognized as Civil Engineer U.S. Airman of the Year. But the Colombian-born civil engineering senior's  true call of duty may be helping veterans win battles off the battlefield. 

Word on the street is that Hunter Burch is the younger half of the first father-son combo among Auburn Engineering faculty colleagues. Listen to the assistant electrical engineering professor share his feelings on this historic accomplishment, discuss his mind-bending research into applied electromagnetics, and dish on his mechanical maestro dad on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast. 

From Puerto Rico to the Plains, Yadrianna Acosta-Sojo is preventing injuries and taking names. 

All that stuff about engineering giving you wings, helping you soar,  taking your career to new heights? The path double major Caroline Culjak took kind of gives that a whole new meaning. 

When it comes to dialysis, chemical engineering doctoral student and Jordan-Hare Stadium play clock operator Matt Garnett definitely wants to delay the game. 

Peter Abraham, Shelby Wales, Maggie Nelson... there's obviously a lot of Goldwaters in them there Auburn Hills. But our latest scholarship-snaggin' nugget is double-majoring overachiever extraordinaire Ayden Kemp, whose 5th-grade trip to DisneyLand inspired a unique educational journey only one engineering school could provide. 

Want to learn about Cotton's future impact on the environment? Listen no further, my friends. The latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast with CEE junior Celi Cotton once again draws from the well of stormwater-studying wunderkinds helping to turn Auburn into the education destination for runoff mitigation.  

"Proudly stands our CSSE senior, banners high... " Learn how business school poster boy Zakariya Veasy is poised to revolutionize the credit game through Omnis, a pitch-perfect startup facilitating  peer-to-peer, short-term microloans.

We believe in work — hard work. Which is why we believe in Pilcher — Shay Pilcher, the twice-diploma'd, Auburn mechanical engineering grad, current research engineer and founder and CEO of Archangel Defense, who's racing to change the world faster than the speed demons she sprang from. 

Ashley Gann took her 2005 Auburn aerospace engineering degree and used it to smash meteorology's glass ceiling in the state of Alabama. Learn how awesome she is on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast. 

Want to hear about a beaming Auburn engineering student who's vaulting her way through her academic routine with unparalleled devotion? Well, go ahead and get your ears on for this interview with sophomore gymnastics sensation Hailey John. You'll be absolutely floored. 

Hey, you know who's on the mark, fam? New engineering grad marshal Jakob Markham. 

If the intro confuses you, just Google 'Oh, Hi Mark.' But, yeah, why does assistant mechanical engineering professor Mark Hoffman get such high marks on Rate My Professor? Why do students think he's "chill" and "one of the best engineering professors" they've ever had and "an intelligent professor with a great sense of realism and humor..." Time to find out...  

Industrial and systems engineering doctoral student Murray Gibson sat down (comfortably) with the #GINNing gang to talk about the guy whose multi-task ergonomic analysis model is going international. His name? Murray Gibson. 

There's a new chair over in Ross Hall. And we're not talking La-Z-Boy. Listen to Selen Cremaschi, the B. Redd and Susan W. Redd Eminent Scholar Chair Professor, discuss her new role in Auburn University’s Department of Chemical Engineering on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast.

Akond Rahman, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, discusses his NSF-funded contributions to strengthening the nation’s cyber infrastructure on the latest episode of the best podcast in higher education. 

Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink? Perish the thought, says Jose Vasconcelos, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, one of 32 researchers selected by the Jewish National Fund-USA to travel to Israel for its 2023 Summer Faculty Fellowship Program. 

Despite the demonstrated success of metal additive manufacturing (AM) in various industries, the performance uncertainty of AM parts undermines the potential of deploying AM for high-consequence applications. Air travel. Space travel. That sort of thing.Which is why the NSF is turning to assistant industrial and systems engineering professor Peter Liu. The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering's latest NSF CAREER Award winner recently sat down with the #GINNing crew to discuss the challenges of AM fatigue failure research — and the challenges of getting rice in northern China.

You've heard of CCR. But get ready to learn about that CDCR. Because if there's a poster child for the benefits of going feet first into the resources provided by the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering's Office of Career Development and Corporate Relations, it's Lila Saunders. From the whiskey woods of Tennessee to the White Sands of New Mexico, this just graduated aerospace ace's career is skyrocketing. Talk about the right trajectory...

Caroline Sanders is a senior from North Carolina. And she started off in marketing but switched to biosystems engineering. And she's doing undergraduate research on seaweed's impact on cow flatulence. And she's a Gemini vegetarian. 

A lot of people just whine about brine. But not assistant environmental engineering professor and wastewater recycling wunderkind Nick Zou. The Moses of Reverse Osmosis is using a $1.5 million Department of Energy and National Alliance for Water Innovation grant to part the brackish sea in order to meet the mounting freshwater demands of inland cities, and helping Auburn lead the nation in desalination.

Just a junior? Could have fooled us, not to mention the entire panel of judges awarding the prestigious Kim de Rubertis Scholarship from the United States Society on Dams. Yep, biosystems undergrad researcher extraordinaire Anna Lancaster took down three PhD students and took home the big bucks last month — ten thousand smackeroos — for her work in internal erosion in unsaturated slopes. Talk about makin'...  the grade.

As chemical engineering chair, Mario Eden led the department to its highest-ever U.S. News & World Report Graduate Program ranking; increased undergraduate enrollment to record numbers with incoming freshmen with ACT scores of 30 or higher for 11 years in a row; successfully added 17 tenure-track faculty members and two full-time lecturers during the past 10 years, including the department achieving the highest percentage of female full professors among any chemical engineering department in the country; increased philanthropic support of the program by millions of dollars; and successfully led the department through the national accreditation process in 2016 and 2022. Last month, he was appointed the new dean of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering. But in terms of lasting impact, his latest distinction — #GINNing Podcast guest — stands alone. 

Katie Leonard, Auburn's latest NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipient, graduates in May with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, something that's been in the works since was 13.  

On Jan. 1, Matt Yarnold, associate professor of structural engineering, took charge of Auburn University's Advanced Structural Engineering Laboratory (ASEL) as director.  Find out how that whole thing's going on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast. 

Yeah, uh-huh, you know who Emily Kalifa isEverything she do, she do it bigYeah, uh-huh, even tiny micsWhat she does at the Kope, they likeReppin' her town, when you see her tell me what you singTim Cook's high schoolTim Cook's high schoolTim Cook's high schoolTim Cook's high school

When it comes to expanding our understanding of computer science's relationship to music theory — and heck, maybe even vice versa — nothing matches the Persian powered pedagogy of Fatemah Jamshidi. Listen to the CSSE doctoral student and director of Auburn University's Persian Music Ensemble discuss the relationship between her two research passions on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast.

Out in the real world you'll do your thing.You'll serve your fellow man with your degree. So, once we've all said goodbye, you'll take a runnin' leap and you'll learn to fly... So, bye, bye Li'l Sebastien. We'll miss your engineering passion. So, bye, bye Li'l Sebastien...You're another win for the Ginn.

A great name. A great mane. A heart for others. An engineer without borders. Learn how biosystems engineering junior and Auburn EWB chapter president Justus Smith is truly doing his part for the American Way.

The dark, destructive tendencies of Chris Scheinert's youth have lay hidden for years. But thankfully, this 2016 chemical engineering grad and Young Alumni Council networking committee chair overcame his demons thoroughly enough to start a career in process automation in Singapore and Austin, Texas. More recently, he's returned to school, this time at Vanderbilt University, where he'll receive his MBA in May. It's a great story. Inspiring, even. Still, for the latest episode of the best podcast in all of higher education, listener discretion is advised. 

Move over DiCaprio, there's a new Leo on the scene. He's a mechanical engineering senior, outgoing Cupola president and the best thing to ever happen to Winnie the three-legged Golden Retriever. 

Tiny mics. Big dreams. Enjoy this conversation with sophomore Katie Day, whose passion for sustainability and alternative energy prompted her to pursue a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering as well as minors in nuclear power generation systems and sustainability studies. And of course she's a Cupola. 

Two syllables. Endless potential. Ladies and gentlemen, aerospace engineering senior Preet Shah. 

When you think of unsteady separated flows over rotating wings, multi-rotor aeromechanics, biomechanics of avian gust interactions, plume-surface interactions, pulsatile droplet-laden flows, heart valve flows, and respiratory diseases, who's the first person that comes to mind? Yeah, exactly. Ladies and gentlemen, Vrishank Raghav. 

You're about to hear a pavement probin' powerhouse drop all kinds of science to prove he's among the tallest of the asphalt giants. It's him, it's him, it's David Timm. 

Kate Preston is a junior in chemical engineering. And she's your new Miss Auburn. Enjoy! 

Her name is Arabic for "happiness." And boy has civil engineering master's student Afrah Kahn finally found herself at Auburn. 

Why is Allyson McKinney the bee's knees? Because her company's technology can find the bee's knees. From like 15 meters away. Traditional radar? Traditional radar can barely identify a full grown human being from that distance. So it's no wonder that the SoloPulse founder and CEO was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list for manufacturing and industry. Talk about creatin' a buzz.

Haneen Ali is all about improving healthcare delivery processes with systems engineering. And football. Learn how the Jordanian dual appointment dynamo is using her pigskin passion to boost the research reputation of both the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering and Auburn's College of Liberal Arts on the latest episode of the best podcast in all of higher education. 

Lydia means "native of Lydia." But Lydia Mitchell isn't from ancient Greece. She's from Gordo. And she's is the latest guest on the award-winning #GINNing Podcast... for a dang good reason.

Pooriya Nezhadfar is his name. Process structure property relationships is his game. Find out just why GE Aerospace named the latest kudos-collecting luminary to emerge from NCAME as its lead additive manufacturing specialist before he even earned his PhD. From dust to thrust, this guy's a must.

If the story of recent computer science and software engineering graduates Donna Jackson and Jamie Whitehead tells us anything, it's that the world needs more mothers. And motherboards.

Friends, if you want a podcast that sticks the landing. Then you want a podcast with graduating senior in electrical and computer engineering Jacob Blanding.  (Emphasis on the sticks.)

Don't let his last name fool you. Because there's no way this Disney-destined double-major dynamo's career is going to stall out. 

Hear 18-year-old award-winnin', Russian-speakin', civil engineerin' wunderkind Morgan Burk discuss her past, present and future.  She can't drink. But, boy can she think. (Oh, and actually, by credits, she's a senior.)

Do you like to hear stories about mentors changing students lives? Psychometrist success stories? Do you want... Moore... out of a podcast? Well, you're welcome. 

Computer Science, finance, battle bots, volunteerism, picking Auburn over the University of Pennsylvania...  Ladies and gentlemen, Wesley Lowman. 

Diversity,  equity, inclusion, working to perhaps one day repair his own heart with tissue grown from his own heart... it's all in a day's work for chemical engineering grad student Justin Harvell. 

You'll be listening to our interview with NASA Marshall Space Flight Center deputy director, Auburn aerospace engineering alumnus and noted rocket graffiti artist Joseph Pelfrey in 3, 2, 1... 

Kovakas, Grace — she of the Makerspace. Listen to chemical engineering junior and makerspace maestro Grace Kovakas reflect on the rousing resource available on the bottom of the Brown-Kopel Engineering Student Achiement Center, and on navigating "the Big Three," on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast.

If you've struggled to understand the synergistic effects of blending triglycerides and biomass based hydrothermal liquefied biocrude over different catalysts supports in order to produce renewable fuels, then today's your lucky day. Listen to biosytems doctoral student Poulami Roy, winner of a Best Presenter Award at the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers' (ASABE) Annual International Conference recently held in Houston, discuss her ground-breaking research on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast.

Building rockets, autonomous vehicles... oh, sure — obviously. But... did you know that Auburn mechanical engineers can also... make it rain? Just ask Auburn point guard Wendell Green who recently called mechanical engineering senior Chandler Leopard "the best shooter I’ve ever played with in my life." Hope you like classical, friends. Because it's time for a little string music. 

You MAYO may not like this episode. But assistant chemical engineering professor Michael Howard is one of the nation's leading collector of colloidal kudos. His latest is from a little outfit called the National Science Foundation. Buckle up.

Smart people like the 1992 movie "Sneakers." So it's no wonder Sam Mulder, new associate research professor in Auburn's Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, can quote it. 

From O‘ahu to Orange Beach, it's been one heck of a ride. Buckle up and get your ears on for an environmental engineering education experience par excellence courtesy humble Joel Hayworth, the Elton Z. and Lois G. Huff Associate Professor of civil and environmental engineering, and the director of the newly announced Auburn University Gulf Coast Research Station. 

Materials engineering maven and pageant circuit veteran Reagan Handley is bringing as much poise to prosthetics and orthotics as she did to the runway. Her school? Auburn University. Her talent?  Being smart.

From the Loveliest Village to the Saloj Village , industrial and systems engineering junior Ellie Hungerford is changing the world. 

That sound you hear is 1977 civil engineering superstar Melissa Herkt taking a billion-dollar project management sledgehammer to the glass ceiling. 

Gerald L. Pouncey Jr. is the Chairman of Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP, and head of the firm's Environmental and Infrastructure Practices. He's also the latest guest on the award-winning #GINNing Podcast.Listen to the 1982 chemical engineering graduate discuss his courthoom career and his Auburn legacy.

Chemical engineering grad student Ayuba Akinpelu knows a thing or two about operating under pressure. Good news for us. Bad news for cancer. 

Software engineering senior Isabelle Cochran is minoring in Nuclear Power Generation Systems. Because Nuclear power generation is about to be a major issue. 

It's pronounced Jordan. Like the legendary coach. Like the legendary stadium. Like the name that will echo through the annals of structural engineering and post-windstorm reconnaissance research for years to come. War Eagle, Jordan Nakayama. 

Meet Silicon Valley nativen, danceline dynamo and incomparable industrial and systems engineering sophomore Paige Rosckes. She was, like, YOLO.  War Eagle. 

Engineering and long snapping — that's what Auburn does. At least that's the takeaway from our interview with mechanical engineering GTA Clarke Smith, the second long snapping Auburn Tiger to tackle the rigors of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering we've interviewed in a year. Hut, hut. 

He finally said yes. Auburn University President Christopher B. Roberts, ladies and gentlemen... 

If you've detected some new energy emanating from the Shelby Center basement these days, there's a reason. Yep, the acclaimed LEGO lab is now straight up Ballard powered. 

Learn how Auburn swimming sensation Meghan Lee slices through the waters of civil and environmental engineering on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast. 

Listen, if you want to be a patent attorney, stop screwing around and declare chemical engineering already. Sheesh. 

Did the movie "Armageddon" seriously inspire the incredible career of Toshi Hirabayashi, an aerospace engineer so apprised on the current status of the asteroid-monitoring apparatus that one of those rocky minor planets of the inner solar system actually bears his name? Find out on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast.

Assistant civil and environmental engineering professor Mike Perez,  head honcho at the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering's Construction Stormwater Facility, doesn't have too much time for politics. But he's always interested in a good... runoff. P.S. Yes, we know. It's "sedentary." It's like a joke. 

If recruiting Gen Z into manufacturing jobs is like a game of chess, then let's just say this: Don't underestimate the Bishop. 

Microenvironmental regulation of tumor progression and metastasis is an important area of focus in current cancer research. But don't take our word for it — talk to Elizabeth Lipke, the Mary and John H. Sanders Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, who's focusing on it more than anyone in the world.

The only thing two-dimensional about the latest guest on the award-winning #GINNing Podcast are the materials she modifies with antibodies in order to instantly detect the Covid-19 virus spike protein — electronically. So, if you've been starvin' for Parvin, then grab a heaping helping of this electrical engineering grad student's wonderful world of biosensors and microscopic masterpieces.  

Listen to chemical engineering junior Peter Abraham, Auburn's latest Barry M. Goldwater Scholar, discuss life, love and Lipke on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast.

Layla Araiinejad, the essay-writin', intellectual property pondering', two-time Tim Cook Scholarin' industrial and systems engineering senior who's got MIT on their knees, begging for her — darling, please. 

When it comes to guarding the coast, an Auburn Engineer like Andrew Kauffman is who you'll want the most. 

The National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence recently got a little more excellent, thanks to land of opportunity-loving Elham Mirkoohi. So get your ears on and prepare to be schooled in AI and machine learning's new role in process-structure-property relationships and convergence manufacturing and all sorts of other words. You down with PSP? Oh boy is she...

Ready for the best day of your life? Well, former Auburn basketbrawler and 1986 Auburn industrial engineering graduate Gary Godfrey certainly is. Diagnosed with ALS in 2019, the only man Charles Barkley ever feared has spent the past three years preaching positivity with a rare perspective on living life to the fullest. Which is what he's doing every day with the help of his better half, and fellow 1986 Auburn industrial engineering alum, Carol. The latest example? Getting back on a bike in time for the annual Bo Bikes Bama charity event courtesy an Auburn Engineering senior design team that raced to build a custom ride for an Auburn Man who won't be denied.

Brad Christopher, ’91 and ’93 civil engineering, president of LBYD Engineers, may be the newest chair of the Auburn Alumni Engineering Council. But he's always been our chairman of... The Board. 

Listen as we lob softball questions to freshman mechanical engineering super slugger Bri Ellis on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast. 

iRacing.... is it blinking your eyes as fast as you can? A staring contest? Or virtually revving your engine like the big boys for an endurance test that apparently can literally break your wrists. You're not going to have to hold on for one more day to find out what Austin Wilson and Austin Phillips have to say about it. 

 Auburn chemical engineering doctoral candidate Mohammadjafar Hashemi's  tissue engineering research is helping to further medicine’s understanding of diabetes' often deadly impact on human heart function. As Wilford Brimley would say, it's the right thing to do. 

From catwalks to spacewalks. From wearing the crown to touching down. From Miss Hoover to Miss—ion Control, PoSSUM-loving Auburn ISE junior Jordan Carraway is ready to launch. 

Well, it turns out space wasn't the final frontier for Chris Crumbly, at least not under the banner of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. That's right, after 27 years at NASA, this multi-degree Auburn aerospace maestro went full private sector, savoring every last drop of Auburn's engineering nectar. 

"Amaya engineer? Absolutely."Listen to civil and environmental engineering sophomore Amaya De La Cruz discuss representation in STEM on the latest episode of the best podcast in all of higher education.

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Scarborough. Jon Scarborough. This clay-killing, aerospace professor-sired senior is drawing a bead on life as an industrial and systems engineer. Want to learn more? PULL.

From wake boards to cosmic possums, Hannah Bartels is totally awesome. Find out why this biosystems-loving Brookie leans into every engineering challenge that comes her way. 

The helicopters need to shut up already, and Umberto Saetti is just the man to ensure they do.  

Listen to aerospace engineering senior Allison Timm discuss her hopes, her dreams and her dad. Oh, and her brother.  

Hey, you can only gain so much in Gainesville. We know that. Thankfully, for Kyle Schulze, Auburn Engineering was willing to imports them jorts, which has allowed the assistant professor in mechanical engineering to pursue everything he loved about Auburn's mission in more ways than one. 

Auburn chemical engineering freshman Sarah Kate Sligh has cerebral palsy. And a national swimming record. And a YouTube channel. And a spot on Auburn's wheelchair tennis team. And a bid from Delta Gamma. And the honor of being the latest guest on the best podcast in all of higher education. And better grades than her mom.

While other institutions were feelin' the 2020 pain, Steve Taylor was making it rain. Yessir, the Bluegrass-born, biosystems-bred associate dean of research has helped raise Auburn Engineering's research reputation to the tune of a record $76 million in new contracts and awards... during a pandemic. You wanna achieve? Then you want a Steve. 

Chemical engineering sophomore Anya McDaniel muses over the magic happening inside Auburn Engineering's new makerspace. 

We needed a Cupola Engineering Ambassador superstar. And we got him. Enjoy this conversation with software engineering senior Raj Patel.  

Studying pedals and earning medals — that's what Jeff Lamondia does. The associate professor of civil and environmental engineering knows more the most about the rocky relationship between cyclists and motorists. And trust us when we say that there ain't nothing pedestrian about his research into pedestrians. Ready to share the road?

Helen Lohr is her name, doing more is her game: Naval ROTC, equestrian and mechanical engineering — and those are just the highlights. So anchor down and saddle up as we learn all the lore of Helen Lohr (and what in the world Wawa is). 

Mechanical engineering senior Theresa Hardin tries hard in... everything. Robotic mining. Undergrad research. Building the future of prosthetics. Sorority life. Fund raising. Patent holding! Ladies and gentlemen, sit back and get your ears on for the Theresa Hardin Experience.

Alyssa Malonson has a leg up on the competition in more ways than one. Because, hey, if this whole professional soccer thing doesn't work out, this senior SEC Academic honor roller can always whip out her license to change the world, or as some call it, an Auburn biosystems engineering degree.

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.

Yellow Card chief technology officer Justin Poiroux has used his Auburn Engineering experience to corner the crypto currency exchange market on the world's second largest continent in just a few years, a feat impressive enough to recently secure $15M in Series A Funding from venture capital funds like Peter "PayPal" Thiel's Valar Ventures. That sweet little cash grab was enough to get Justin on the radar of the best podcast in higher education. Will it be enough to put his PayPal account back in good standing? Get your ears on and let's find out... 

#GINNing? More like #TWINning! Yes, friends, turns out, God made deuces Sluises. And wouldn't you know it, the other one is an Auburn chemical engineer. So get your ears on and please hit play as John twists the knobs for a Sluis called T.A.

Let's go ahead and call Vinita Shinde the poster child of Auburn Engineering polymer research.  The chemical engineering graduate student recently helped Beckingham Polymer Research Group bring home back-to-back poster awards from the American Chemical Society (ACS) for her poster, “Self-healing of thermoplastic polymer composites via environmentally friendly solvent-filled microcapsules.” Vinita breaks down what those words even mean, and shares her Auburn experience, on the latest episode of the best podcast in all of higher education.

You can take the girl out of Brazil. And you can apparently take her out of Brazil again. Yes, such was the charm of the loveliest village — both its culture and industrial and systems engineering curriculum — Miss Julia "Brasilia-born" Bitencourt chose to not only pursue her bachelor's degree, but, after a few years in industry back below the equator, to return for her master's degree. And she apparently does modeling in Europe or something.

Mike Ogles, a 1989 Auburn University mechanical engineering graduate who served the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering for several years as director of NASA programs, assistant director of the National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence (NCAME) and as the driving force behind the Auburn Makes initiative, passed away Thursday, Oct. 14 after a six-month battle with cancer.The latest, special episode of the #GINNing Podcast honors the Auburn Man, next-level "The Andy Griffith Show" aficionado and engineering legend whose contributions to his alma mater's efforts to advance America's space program will be felt for generations.He was one of the first guests on the best podcast in higher education. And he was one of the best men we've ever known. 

Move over Pollyanna, we've got a new term for irrepressible optimism and a tendency to find good in everything: SeAnna. That would SeAnna Graddy, the ROTC-rockin', Camp War Eagle counseling, metal health advocatin' sophomore in industrial and systems engineering who may be the most impressively positive person to parley on this podcast. Trust us, folks, you're gonna be grinning thanks ol' hashtag GINNing...

The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers recently honored Apple CEO Tim Cook, a 1982 Auburn industrial engineering graduate, with the opportunity of chatting with industrial and systems engineering senior Annie Dorsey. What did they talk about? How did it come about? Time to find out.

How did Tanner Harness get to the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering? The sub way. And we ain't talkin' the kind that get you around in New York City. We ain't talkin' sandwich artists. We're talking the nuclear powered, sonar-slingin' sardines that keep America's underwater military interests silently secure. We took a deep dive with the civil engineering senior to hear about his completely unique Auburn Engineering journey. Let's see what surfaces.

This overachieving junior in chemical engineering, is captain of the Auburn University student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' Chemical Car and Jeopardy Teams, and a former undergraduate research assistant in the Beckingham Polymer Research Group. Who is Barbara Allen?

From an E-Day visit in high school to flexing his findings on the fashion of the future from his own Wiggins Hall lab, wearable robotics enthusiast Chad Rose has come full circle. Listen to the assistant mechanical engineering professor discuss his Auburn journey — and his pursuit of improving human robot interaction in the rehabilitation realm — on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast.

Electrical engineering? It's a snap. At least it is for senior Jacob Quattlebaum, long snapper extraordinaire for the Auburn Tigers. Want to learn how Q-Ball makes the grade in the classroom and on the gridiron? Hut, hut...

If you've ever thought that whole thing about Auburn providing the best student-centered engineering experience in America was just a slogan, just take a look at industrial and systems engineering senior Jailin Sanders. The busy bee from Bessemer is a walking, talking billboard for the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering. He's taken advantage of pretty much every opportunity and resource the college has to offer. His contributions to student organizations? Legion. His attitude? Infectious. So go ahead and get your ears on and hear for yourself why folks can't stop hailin' that Jailin.

Mechanical engineering doctoral student David Hollinger is doing his darndest to lighten the assistive device load for America's super-human soldiers of the future, turning exoskeletons into less-o-skeletons.

Want to be a patent attorney? Major in materials engineering. That's the advice from 1988 Auburn engineering grad Roger Wylie, who's built one of the most successful intellectual property protection careers from here to Tokyo, which is where you recently could have found the product of one of his clients. Yeah, an Auburn man sealed the patent deal on the Olympic torch. Now that's a legacy you can't extinguish.

When it came time to bring Auburn's world-class transportation research groups under one umbrella, the university had to find the perfect someone to actually hold it — someone strong in the field, who could flex and fund-raise and facilitate the sort of real-world, life-changing innovations state DOTs and industry leaders have come to expect from the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering. All of which is to say, we hope you enjoy learning aboot Larry Rilett.

Jaime Schussler may have mud in her blood, but there ain't nothing sedentary about her sedimentary lifestyle. Through access to the world's largest slip and slide or whatever, the GRA in civil and environmental engineering is taking the stormwater management world by storm, and makin' it rain in more ways than one.

Sarah Mai Broddus believes in the human touch, which cultivates sympathy with her fellow men and mutual helpfulness and brings happiness for all... on the skating rink...

Wake up, listeners, we think Maggie's got somethin' to say to you. It's mid July and she's doing really well in school.

Ujjwal Guin. Ever heard of him? Well, the White House has. His paper “Counterfeit Integrated Circuits: A Rising Threat in the Global Semiconductor Supply Chain” was cited in a June White House report on building resilient supply chains, revitalizing American manufacturing, and fostering broad-based growth. Let's find out why.

Mechanical engineering senior Mit Patel grew up in the c-store industry. Now he's revolutionizing it.

No, she's not a mid-90s cover artist. Alana MacLachlan is a graduate research assistant in materials engineering, doing incredible things in Advanced Nanomaterials Engineering Laboratory.  Sure, she may have one hand in her pocket. But you oughta know that she's wearing a lab coat.

What do Kid Rock, "American Idol" and Auburn Engineering all have in common? You're looking at it. Ladies and gentlemen, Savannah Sawyer. 

From vomiting in zero gravity to calling out former students for indecent exposure to teaching remotely while stuck for months in India, Sushil Bhavnani's Auburn career is the stuff of legend. So how does the Henry M. Burt Jr. Professor of mechanical engineering explain his phenomenal success? "Dumb luck."

Mechanical engineering senior Matt Miller, team captain and electric car engineer for War Eagle Motorsports, is going places. First stop? The finish line.

Got a job opening? Emily Schramek wants to fill it. The Auburn senior from Birmingham's Mountain of Oaks has the skills to pay the bills, which is exactly why she chose chemical engineering in the first place. You're welcome, Stanford.

New chemical engineering assistant professor Symone Alexander spins a web of research wonders in this conversation on extreme organismic biophysics and ultra-fast motion in nature. Want s'more Symone? So do we.

Austin Phillips meets Austin Phillips. Let the insanity begin.

Travis Walbeck, training manager for the National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT), delivers the scoop on Training in Your Pocket, the premiere short, entertaining, instructional YouTube channel for standard asphalt test procedures in the lab and field.

Mechanical engineering professor Rick Williams loves going nuclear on his students. And apparently, according to this year's Auburn Engineering faculty awards, they love it, too.

Let's just say that mechanical engineering graduate and current industrial and systems engineering master's student Taylor Troutman knows how to use her head...

Maury Gaston, '82 mechanical engineering, has worked for the same company for all 38 years of his illustrious career in engineering sales and marketing. You're welcome, American Cast Iron Pipe.

Senior Shelby Wales is the latest recipient of the fabulously prestigious Goldwater Scholarship, which, you know, isn't just awarded to anyone. So, hey — maybe she'll keep going with this whole chemical engineering thing. Seems to have worked out pretty well so far...

Rising up, back on the street. He did his time, took his chances. He went the distance, now he's definitely on his feet... just a man named Steve Hamilton, '84 chemical engineering, and his will to heal eyes.

For Casey Waid, it's all about connecting people back to the college they love.  And who better to hold their hand on the journey home than one of their own.  That's right, the Auburn diploma hanging in the office of this Samuel Ginn College of Engineering development officer reads "chemical engineering."  Of course, you better be careful - ol' Casey's got a grip that might break your hand as he guides you to that promised land.  

Is high finance a valid use of an engineering degree? Uh, is pool water wet? Why don’t we let 1985 industrial and systems engineering grad Dan Phillips take a crack at those questions...

Of course she has concrete plans for the future. For crying out loud, she's the president of the American Concrete Institute student chapter, which just earned Auburn an ACI Excellent University designation for the 6th year in a row. (Can you say "Dynasty?") So, yeah, when it comes to Kelly, we say Turner loose.

Don't mess with Jacob vonEschenbach. Just don't mess with him. Because when this Enterprise-bred, arm and leg-acy Auburn engineering walk-on warrior sees a challenge, he tackles it head on.

In German, her last name may mean Squirrel. But around these parts, it means Best Student Worker of the Year. Well, no, technically, she hasn’t won — not yet. But she’d better, because Natalie Eichorn deserves all the kudos coming to her. This Austin-bred, Accenture-bound software engineering senior has lightened the web work load for our IT guy, and serves as a shining example of success for future Auburn Engineers as a Cupola Ambassador. Software engineering? It’s been a tough nut to crack. But this super smart Squirrel is on the right track.

Brittany Ransom has more student organization leadership positions than you can count. But the mechanical engineering junior isn't just padding her portfolio for the kudos. She's doing it to put herself in position to attack the problems of urban infrastructure and, as she puts it in her National Academy of Engineering’s Grand Challenges Scholars Program bio — reinvent the world.

Last summer, we learned he's an investigator on that $3 million FAA project with Auburn's National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence. Last month? That he'll be researching lead-free defense electronics thanks to a $7 million award from the Dept. of Defense. His name may be Daniel Silva, but friends, this assistant Industrial and Systems Engineering professor is bringing home the gold...

It's a classic tale of redemption and revelation: A young Bama fan considering journalism comes to Auburn on a whim, takes one look at the engineering campus, and is forever changed.   This is how Anna Layne West was won.

Romance. Civil Engineering. Boll Weevils. Alliteration. This episode of the award-winning #GINNing has it all.

How Jessica "Dixie" Mills' long hike through the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering took her to the summit of YouTube success.

Friends, Auburn Engineering's alumni trophy case is bursting at the seams. There's the the CEO of the world's first trillion-dollar company, astronauts galore, the PowerPoint Prince.... and now we have to make room for Travis Moore — the Cornhole King.   The senior in civil and environmental engineering just took home the doubles crown from the National College Cornhole Championship, defeating a duo from North Carolina State in one of the most thrilling finishes the competition has ever seen.

Associate Civil and Environmental professor Justin Marshall was looking for a little structure in his life when he came to Auburn...and boy did he get it.

There may be no T in his name, but there's plenty of speed in his game. Yessir, come October, Bevly Boy Will Bryan and his new master's degree will be kicking back and letting the code take the wheel in the Indy Autonomous Challenge at 200 driverless miles per hour.Eat your heart out, Mario Lemiuex.

Bernie Moussad just graduated from Auburn University with a 4.0 GPA in computer engineering. He's dedicating his career to researching bioinformatics. Unfortunately, Bernie Sanders ruined his life.

Hueytown-born Patrick Duke, ’99 civil, reflects on life as an Auburn-trained engineer.

...who is Andrew McGehee?

You've seen her face. Now hear her story. Ladies and gentlemen, Livy Green.

Dearly Beloved, our only regret in this oh-so-memorable interview with oh-so-impressive Procter & Gamble-bound chemical engineering senior Nathan Wall is that we didn't get him to actually pop the question right then and there.

Mechanical engineering senior Zac Young recently tossed a no hitter at the 2020 SEC Student Pitch Competition with a gold-mine of a gadget called the Wave Timer. Caution: High voltage ahead.

What exactly is a research engineer?  Christian Brodbeck, one of the best around, enlightens us on the latest episode of the #GINNing Podcast.

Sometimes we wonder whether a guest really meets the criteria. But we didn't think twice about the man from Nigeria.

Nelda Lee — Boeing your mind since '69.

Ethical Hacking. Oxymoron? Scam? Or an essential ingredient in educating the next generation of secret agents inspired by that 1992 film ol' Jer just can't seem to shut up about? Whatever you decide after listening to this interview with Vicki McLendon, just remember... it's all about the information.

If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of assistant civil and environmental professor Benjamin Bowers' mug, please contact the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.

A Be the Creed honoree... a WayUp’s Intern 100 list member... a two-time technical intern with GE Aviation... and he's only a sophomore? You had your chance, Bama.

If you're trying to replace the Auburn University Employee of the Year in the middle of a pandemic, you need to hire the best. Thankfully, for the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, Andrew McGill is a seasoned fighter, who, when it comes to student recruiting, has more big wins under his belt than Conor McGregor.

Her mom, her dad.. her grandfather, her other grandfather... even her uncles! Sure, Emily Traylor could do one of those Ancestry DNA tests things if she wanted. But why waste the time or money when the results are obvious? This woman is 100 percent Auburn Engineer.

Industry 4.0? More like Industry 4.2 million. Yep, that's how much the U.S. Department of Defense recently awarded to the Interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Manufacturing. Time to grab associate industrial and systems engineering professor Greg Harris and find out why...

Making your way in the Sam Ginn College of Engineering today takes everything you've got. Diane Sherrard, program administrator for 100+ Women Strong, knows that mentorship from other strong women sure would help a lot. Wouldn't you like to recruit, reward and retain...

There's a graduate research assistant in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering who hasn't let COVID-19 keep him from living his best 2020. That's just what the promise of access to the most incredible structural engineering lab in the world will do a man. From toothpick bridges to concrete canoes, ladies and gentleman, Tyler Norman.

What's Sushil Adhikari, alumni professor of biosystems engineering, and the director of the cutting edge Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts, passionate about? Well, I'll tell you: Biomass pyrolysis, hydrothermal liquefaction, torrefaction, biodiesel production and biomass gasification... if you know what I mean.

Sustainability of water resources, particularly in water-scarce environments, is a tricky subject. We know that. Thankfully for the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, few people know more about it than Frances O'Donnell, assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering... and apparently, like, the 60th person ever to sign up for Facebook. That's right, she was getting her B.A. at a college called Harvard right at the start of the Zuckerberg Zeitgeist, and later went on for a Ph.D at a school called Princeton. Never heard of them. But whatever, the point is, she's an Auburn woman now. Cluster Hire Eagle.

Is Thaddeus A. Roppel, associate professor in electrical and computer engineering, an agent of Skynet? A freedom fighter in the Rebellion against the Empire? Time will tell.

Ballerina. Daredevil. International tourist. Wheelchair basketballer enthusiast. Now add to the list, doctor. Ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Taylor Oldfather. Biomechanics will never be the same.

Brendan Higgins, assistant professor of biosystems engineering, is doing his part to make sure nothing in this world goes to waste — not even waste.2

Rigid technologies are quickly going the way of the buffalo thanks to visionaries like Pradeep Lall and his four — count'em, four — degrees. Listen to the John and Anne MacFarlane Distinguished Professor of mechanical engineering explain why the future of electronics will be flexible.

Learn how communications specialist Lauren Winton has put a new spin on donor relations success stories.

Shannon Price believes in work — network. Hear how the director of network services kept the college up and running in the age of remote instruction.

Drew Springall can sum up his best practice advice for online voting in one word: DON'T.

Associate electrical and computer engineering professor Mark Adams readies his photonics torpedoes on the latest episode of #GINNing.

Associate professor Robbie Barnes weighs in on the wonders of civil engineering, and marvels at the latest monument to Auburn's structural engineering empire.

Steve Duke, the college’s former associate dean for academics, is rejoining his fellow chemical engineers in the legendary labs of Ross Hall. Why trade the front office for the front lines? What did he learn in his seven significant years of administration? Time to find out.

His last name may be Easterling, but this mechanical engineering senior plans to take his training and talents all the way to Frisco.

Another episode... another Tiger Cage Business Idea Competition winner... another couple of Auburn Engineering students intent on disrupting an entire industry before graduation. War Eagle.

Bob Karcher, retiring assistant dean of student services, reflects on an incredible 22 years with the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.

Margaret Arnold, new senior director of development for the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, weighs in on the phenomenal philanthropy of Auburn Engineers.

Emma Little, a senior in electrical engineering, offers a little pandemic-persevering perspective on finishing her degree in the age of remote instruction.

Ryan Hill, Auburn mechanical engineering alum extraordinaire, updates us on RE-InVENT, reflects on his time at Auburn... and dishes the dirt on Michael Zabala.

They call Tom Burch an engineer's engineer. So no, he wasn't interested in some Cracker Jack academic exercise. If he was going to build an emergency ventilator system, he was going to build one that might actually have a chance to save some lives. And it took him and Auburn Engineering's Re-InVENT team just two days to do it.

Well, we didn't think we'd be celebrating a year's worth of the best podcast in higher education during a pandemic. But here we are!

Thanks to this industrious industrial engineering sophomore, construction sites may never be the same.

Dorito Diva Katelyn Rheinlander credits her delectable day job to Auburn's Department of Biosystems Engineering.

Auburn's Theme Park Engineering Group has the thrill skills to pay the big bills, and mechanical engineering senior Katie Bowman is one of the reason's why.

Emerging contaminants. It's a problem. We know that. But thankfully, Meredith Ayers Feltman is on a quest to find a solution.

How do you solve a problem like Maria? Work—hard work, like the kind of committed interdisciplinary collaboration going down at Auburn University's Center for Polymers and Advanced Composites. 

We recommend you listen to this episode of #GINNing on your morning or afternoon commute. Because Rod Turochy is among the nation’s elite transportation faculty, and you'll never look at rush hour the same way again.

She's only a sophomore, but little Adia Foster is already making a big name for herself in software engineering.

How is the group of Auburn aerospace engineering students led by Zack Wadzinski waging a war on plastic waste in waterways around the globe? With an army of trash-targeting autonomous aquatic drones that's sure to put smiles on the faces of business investors. Time to go green, if you know what I mean...

You want prestigious cybersecurity research? Look no further than Daniel Tauritz, chief cyber AI strategist for the Auburn Cyber Research Center.

Recent innovations have helped lessen the language barrier between American Sign Language and English speakers. But Electrical and Computer Engineering senior Ryan McGill thinks he can remove the whole thing.

’55 mechanical engineering grad, Jim Odom, was an Apollo program pioneer and led the development for the Hubble Space Telescope. 

The history of Auburn Engineering is long and illustrious. And no one alive knows it better than 1968 aerospace graduate Art Slotkin.

A look inside the most-scanned brain in Auburn—Auburn University MRI Research Center Director Tom Denney's.

What's the point of interviewing freshman computer engineering major Seth Maddox? POWER. Meet world-champion Power Pointer Seth Maddox, the pride of Geraldine.

Eddie Strickland is a senior in mechanical engineering, power lifter and a ROTC member but find out what truly keeps him busy as a bee.

The brain child of industrial engineering grad Tim Arnold, Auburn's new 'War Eagle Road,' the first musical road on a college campus, gives a whole new meaning to traffic noise.

Collins McMurray, the new crowned Miss Auburn University, is a freshman in chemical engineering, kicking class and taking names. 

Brian Thurow, chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering, joins the best podcast in all of higher education to discuss Auburn's efforts to put the space back into aerospace.

These days, you can't go a week without seeing assistant professor of computer science and software engineering Anh Nguyen's name in a tech blog. Time to deep learn why...

Auburn Engineering development officer David Mattox is getting cash and taking names. Somebody break out the Guinness Book...

C02 is the problem. Lauren Beckingham may be the solution.

Senior mechanical engineering major Will Phillips just helped Auburn's bass fishing team win yet another national championship. Science, yo.

How many astronauts has Auburn produced? There's too many to count. And yet there's only Jan Davis.

In just six years time, Nima Shamsaei, the Philpott-WestPoint Stevens Distinguished Associate Professor and director of the National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence, has become a name above all names in the world of 3-D printing. But to keep the promise of the AM revolution, we still need more Nima.

The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering is riding for the brand. In other words, ain't no thwartin' Mike Horton, the senior  offensive guard helping Auburn Football engineer a championship

The best podcast in higher education runs like well-oiled machine, which is something Rob Jackson knows all about. Get your ears on, and your gears ready... it's tribology time.

Sure, we could put out bids to some sort of consulting group or contractor to help us reduce the 5 million gallons of city tap water the college uses each August just to feed the cooling towers. But why would we when we have the genius students of the Auburn University Energy and Natural Resources Project at our disposal?

There's no down time for Recruiting and Scholarships director Jessica Taylor. But with a job that rewarding, why would you want there to be?

You'd be hard pressed to find anyone more passionate about helping students reach their potential than Eric Hall, program coordinator for Auburn's Academic Excellence Program sponsored by Alabama Power. Dude is so popular and positive that people call him the Mayor. And from the sound of it, he knows how to govern.

If it seems like soon-to-be mechanical engineering graduate Ben Ratliff is Mr. Everything in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, it's because he kind of is. Engineering Student Council president... summer graduation marshal... Freshman Leadership Program committee member... and he's all over that Big Event stuff.  Let's find out what makes Big Ben tick.

What can you say about a man like Jim Killian, who in 1984 took over a one-man shop and turned it into the best-podcast-in-higher-education producing, communications and marketing juggernaut that is today? Let's find out...

Ed Lewis... common name, uncommon man. Over the course of his career, the senior advisor to the Dean of the Auburn University Samuel Ginn College of Engineering has improved the processes on everything from Combos production to record-setting fundraising campaigns. And thankfully, then 1972 industrial engineering graduate passion for his alma mater knows no bounds.

From India to Maryland to Michigan to Auburn—Allan David is on a quest. The John W. Brown Associate Professor is setting biomedical benchmarks with his smarts on smart materials and nanomaterials and all that amazing stuff. Gadolinium toxicity, you have met your match...

Thanks to his new master's degree in mechanical engineering, Auburn baseball player Brett Olson has a sure-fire, well-paying way out from his famous father's shadow.

If you were to create a word cloud corresponding to asphalt industry opinion of NCAT Assistant Director and Test Track Manager Buzz Powell, the term "Foremost Expert" would be as big and bold as it gets. Trust us—20 minutes of Dr. Buzz talking pavement poundin' does not disappoint.

Computer Science and Software Engineering professor Cheryl Seals, the pride of Homer, Louisiana, has a passion for diversity in computing, a soft-spot for World of Warcraft, and a "Living Legend" plaque on her mantle. Enough said.

For Auburn engineering legend Charles Gavin, it's not about the amount of the donations. It's not about getting your name on the building you spent half your college career in. It's about making a difference in the lives of future engineers ... and making sure they pronounce "textile" correctly.

Simply put, Auburn University wouldn't be what it is without 1969 aerospace engineering graduate Walt Woltosz. Neither would the space shuttle, Stephen Hawking, or, you know, the world. 

Tom Devall, Director of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering's Auto Manufacturing Initiatives, is a mean Lean Manufacturing machine. Hear him explain why the auto industry keeps asking to come over to his house to play.

What's next for Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Michael Hamilton? Nano your business. But here's what we DO know—for an expert in quantum computing and stuff, dude is really, really into algae...

Leg injuries so traumatic they instantly went viral might derail an average college senior. Thankfully, there's nothing average about gymnastics star Sam Cerio. The Auburn aerospace engineer is about to trade the mat for the real world, and there's no way she's not sticking the landing.

New Auburn engineering graduate Katelyn Jenkins feels guilty if she fills up the tank anywhere other than ExxonMobil. Time to find out why...

Michael Zabala could be teaching anywhere—MIT, Stanford, Harvard.  But why settle?

Meet the Guardian from Ghana. Learn how Emmanuel Winful is turning the world's best engineering college into the world's safest engineering college.

Star student Natalie Palmquist on the road to the Rhodes, life in Turkey, and how Auburn Engineering is changing the world.

Frank Cilluffo, director of Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security, discusses America's new cybersecurity paradigm.

Cole Blackstock, a senior in electrical engineering and forward on the men’s basketball team, joins the show to talk about the Tigers’ magical run to the Final Four and the rigors of balancing an engineering curriculum and championship basketball.

Mike Ogles, Auburn University director of NASA programs, joins the #GINNing podcast to discuss NASA's long-standing partnership with Auburn and the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.

David Roueche, Auburn University assistant professor of civil engineering, is featured on the #GINNing Podcast premiere to share lessons learned from the March 3, 2019 Lee County tornadoes.