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The Auburn University Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) is proud to welcome recent Virginia Tech doctoral graduate Rongxuan (Raphael) Wang to the department as an assistant professor.
Ten graduate students studying in the Auburn University Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), and 17 Auburn University students overall, have been awarded scholarships from the Institute for Printed Circuits Education Foundation (IPCEF).
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.
Students, faculty and staff recognized at the annual Auburn University Graduate School awards ceremony, Friday, April 28, in the Melton Student Center Ballroom.
Taylor has served as the interim dean of Auburn’s Samuel Ginn College of Engineering since April 2022. Taylor will begin his new position on June 1.
The Auburn Alumni Engineering Council inducted seven new members to the group during its annual spring meeting April 14 in the Brown-Kopel Center.
Madison Evans and Victoria Ballard, two doctoral students studying industrial and systems engineering, were recently awarded the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering’s 100+ Women Strong Outstanding Departmental Annual Graduate Award. Two graduate students from each engineering department received this honor.
The research-based competition presented by the Council of Engineering Graduate Students tasked students to create videos and explain their respective projects in a minute or less.
Auburn Engineering has climbed 10 spots in the Best Graduate program rankings over the past four years
Industrial and systems engineering doctoral student Victoria Ballard has been awarded the annual Dr. Saeed Maghsoodloo Assistantship. The assistantship, which is awarded by the department, is accompanied by a monetary award and acknowledges and rewards the valuable role that teaching assistants play in the Auburn University Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Through ReMake, the Center for Polymers and Advanced Composites is collecting 3D printing waste and recycling it into filament that can be redistributed to labs across campus.
What do Tim Cook, '82 industrial, and Emily Kalifa, '25 industrial, have in common? Find out on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast below, or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts by searching #GINNing.
The annual seminar series hosted by the Center for Polymers and Advanced Composites is an opportunity for graduate students to share their research and foster interdisciplinary research collaboration at Auburn.
Last year, the Interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Manufacturing Systems (ICAMS) at Auburn University presented three students from different departments with the center’s first ICAMS Student Defined Research Awards. These students received a paid research position for one year, along with support for the research through faculty advising, materials, machine time, tuition waivers, and travel support for presenting their findings at an appropriately themed conference. They have had significant results through their research in the last year.
Following a national search, Mario Eden, the Joe T. and Billie Carole McMillan Professor and chair of Auburn University’s Department of Chemical Engineering, has been named as the 14th dean of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, according to an announcement by Interim Provost Vini Nathan.
The Auburn University Samuel Ginn College of Engineering hosted its annual spring awards ceremony, which recognizes students, faculty, staff and alumni who have shown outstanding leadership and devotion to the college.
Event Will Discuss Need to Prioritize Resilience of U.S. Space Systems
As the professor for the Tiger Motors Lean Engineering Lab, one of the more popular labs in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, Tom Devall regularly hears from online graduate students that they would love the opportunity to participate more in lab activities.
Fostering the spirit of collaborative research and educational programs, Auburn University leadership hosted a delegation from the German Technical University of Applied Sciences at Wurzburg-Schweinfurt, March 26-31.
The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering held its second annual Graduate Engineering Research Showcase in Huntsville on Wednesday, with more than 150 graduate students and faculty presenting research posters to members of the Huntsville community and Auburn Engineering alumni.
Shivaprasad Nageswaran, who won Auburn University's Three Minute Thesis competition in November, captured the regional competition with his presentation, "Investigating Seat Belt Safety in Rollover Accidents."
The adoption of Smart Manufacturing is fast becoming a necessity for small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs) looking to stay competitive in the Industry 4.0 age. For those SMMs in the national security ecosystem, it's no longer a suggestion — it's a requirement.
The Interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Manufacturing Systems (ICAMS) at Auburn University focuses on helping small and medium-sized manufacturers transform their operations by introducing digital capabilities. To build the business case for digitalization, Laser Precision, a small to medium-sized manufacturer (SMM), recently shared its story with ICAMS. Laser Precision’s success story has recently been published in Manufacturing Engineering, a journal published by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
A local Girl Scouts troop recently gained some hands-on manufacturing experience at the Interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Manufacturing Systems (ICAMS) at Auburn University. The visit earned the girls, who ranged from first to fifth grade, their STEM Career Exploration Badge.
Auburn University senior Drew Nardone has been named the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering’s Undergraduate Student of the Year.
The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering’s Inclusion and Diversity Committee will host Engineer Together Day on Wednesday, March 15 in the Brown-Kopel Center.
The Center for Occupational Safety, Ergonomics, and Injury Prevention, part of the Auburn University Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, recently had two education and research training programs renewed for five years by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). The programs are part of the Deep South Center for Occupational Health and Safety, a collaboration with the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The grants supporting the programs bring approximately $2 million to Auburn. NIOSH and Auburn University have a history dating to the early 1970s, but the history of the Auburn University Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering safety and ergonomics program goes back to the late 1960s.
To reflect his growing and evolving role in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, Christian Brodbeck, who has served the college as research engineer since 2006, was recently named director of research engineering operations.
The State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame inducted five individuals — including two Auburn University alumni — and a corporation during a ceremony Saturday at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel and Spa at the Convention Center.
Auburn Engineering hosted more than 3,500 attendees on Friday, Feb. 24 for E-Day, the college's annual open house event.
Diego Caputo, a graduate student in the Auburn University Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, was recently named the 2022 JT Black Lean Engineering Student of the Year. Tom Devall, director of auto manufacturing initiatives for the department, selected Caputo as the recipient of the award.
Sixteen teams will compete in the Feb. 24 Tiger Cage semifinals
The Auburn University Samuel Ginn College of Engineering came in at No. 16 in U.S. News and World Report’s Best Online Engineering Graduate Programs 2023 rankings, climbing one spot from last year. This is the seventh-consecutive year that engineering’s online program has ranked in the Top 25.
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.
The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering recently began an educational partnership with Jacobs, an engineering services company with 400 offices in more than 40 countries.
In an effort to further collaborations with student recruiting in Latin America, Alice Smith, the Joe W. Forehand/Accenture Distinguished Professor of the Auburn University Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, recently earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish from Auburn University.
Stanford University's study examined a database of more than 180,000 researchers worldwide
In an effort to support collaboration between Israeli and U.S. institutions, Auburn University Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Associate Professor Aleksandr Vinel will soon leave for Israel to take part in the 2022-23 Winter - Faculty Fellowship Program.
Auburn University is one of three universities sharing a $28 million grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, or NIFA, to establish an Institute for Rural Partnership to research the causes and conditions of challenges facing rural areas.
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Auburn University is part of four Southeastern Conference (SEC) schools that plan to make the SEC not just a competitive force in football, but in manufacturing as well. Auburn University’s Interdisciplinary Center of Advanced Manufacturing Systems (ICAMS) recently competed in the first-ever SEC Manufacturing Competition.
The Auburn University Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) is proud to welcome Susan Askew as the department’s professor of practice. Askew, whose position will be based at the new Auburn University Research and Innovation Campus in Huntsville, has been a systems engineering instructor for the department since January. Her role as professor of practice was effective in early November.
The agreement includes the establishment of research and/or automotive technology support offices and laboratories, the creation of joint research projects and the exchange of technical information, periodic training symposia and consulting.
In 2019, Janet Moore, assistant dean for engineering student services, was named the National Academic Advising Association's Outstanding Academic Advising Administrator. Find out why on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast.
Auburn Engineering's first AUsome Science in 60 Seconds competition offers up to $2,200 in cash and prizes to the best – and most concise – student researchers, graduate and undergraduate, on video.
Greg Harris has been selected as chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Auburn University. His appointment began Nov. 1, according to an announcement from Steve Taylor, interim dean of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.
Mark Schall, director of the Center for Occupational Safety, Ergonomics, and Injury Prevention and associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, has been named the Dr. Daniel F. and Josephine Breeden Professor by the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.
Students from four states will bring their creations and design plans to Auburn for the 20th consecutive year.
Twenty-five percent of the United States suffers from urinary incontinence and several Auburn University students and faculty are working to help make their lives better.
