Brenna McAlister, a freshman in chemical engineering, earned the Valero 2026 Freshman Engineering Summit and Scholarship award.

Chemical engineering freshman earns Valero Engineering Summit award

4/30/26 11:00 AM
Ben Timm, a mechanical engineering senior, serves as Auburn’s mic-man, leading cheers and energizing crowds at Jordan-Hare Stadium and Neville Arena.

Auburn Family’s support creates extraordinary student experience

4/28/26 3:45 PM
Ryan McGill, ’20 computer engineering, and Jennifer Matis, ’20 mechanical engineering, appeared on Fox’s “The 1% Club,” a puzzle-based game show hosted by Joel McHale.

Auburn engineering graduates appear on FOX game show

4/28/26 2:00 PM
Auburn Engineering faculty, students and representatives from FMS Aerospace stand with a donated Skyron X unmanned aircraft system outside an Auburn Engineering facility.

Auburn Engineering receives unmanned aircraft system from FMS Aerospace

4/28/26 12:00 PM
Krysta Weed, left, and Yury Morales

Two Auburn Engineering staff members presented with Roden Award

4/28/26 10:30 AM
Cade May, an aerospace engineering senior from Birmingham, Alabama, has been named Auburn Engineering’s graduation marshal for the spring 2026 commencement.

Aerospace engineering senior named Auburn Engineering graduation marshal

4/28/26 10:00 AM
Jessica Bowers, manager of career development content and strategy, with graduate assistant Candice Kelly (seated) introduce a career readiness assignment to Auburn Engineering students during a course facilitation session.

Auburn Engineering to embed career readiness across curriculum

4/28/26 8:45 AM
From left, Al Dean Francisco and Rehman Qureshi.

Two Auburn Engineering students receive President's Awards

4/28/26 8:20 AM
Catherine Franco, a junior in electrical and computer engineering, has already completed three internships at NASA.

Junior in electrical and computer engineering awarded SMART Scholarship

4/26/26 6:00 AM
Matthew Cobb

#GINNing Podcast: Formula for SpaceX

4/24/26 1:00 PM
Jason Gentry, a senior in electrical engineering, presents before peers and faculty, including Applied Statistics and Machine Learning course co-directors Yin Sun, the Godbold Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Rui Chen, the Research Extension Assistant Professor at Tuskegee University. Also observing are students Carson Easterling and Sam Chamoun.

Course provides practical experience for students using modern AI tools

4/24/26 10:00 AM
Members of Auburn University’s Rocketry Association pose with a model rocket during their visit to Children’s of Alabama. The group hosts hands-on STEM activities for patients as part of an annual outreach event.

AURA returns to Children’s of Alabama for fourth straight year

4/23/26 3:45 PM
Members of Auburn Engineering's American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) student chapter pose during the 2026 Gulf Coast Symposium in Tuscaloosa, where the team won first place overall.

Auburn ASCE student chapter takes first place at Gulf Coast Symposium

4/21/26 9:25 AM
Close-up of the Lego model featuring the Melton Student Center, Haley Center and Petrie Halll

Auburn student designs Lego model of campus

4/21/26 9:00 AM
Jeremy Henderson

#GINNing Podcast: The Jeremy Henderson Experience

4/17/26 12:20 PM
A student presents an engineering project on vehicle aerodynamics to a judge, with models and a detailed poster display.

Future STEM leaders take center stage

4/16/26 3:00 PM
Members of the Auburn ASABE student chapter pose at the Southeastern Student Rally at the organization’s annual Southeastern Student Rally.

Biosystems engineering students shine at ASABE student rally

4/15/26 12:30 PM
Members who were inducted into the Auburn Alumni Engineering Council Class of 2031 were (L-R): Jeff Haars, ’85 electrical engineering; Reggie Spivey, ’87 and ‘94 mechanical engineering; John Prunkl, ’90 mechanical engineering; Christa Musgrove, ’07 mechanical engineering; Russ Green, ’91 industrial engineering; Kevin Gammill, ’02 chemical engineering; and Jason Gallaspy, ’97 and ‘00 electrical engineering.

Auburn Alumni Engineering Council inducts Class of 2031

4/15/26 10:40 AM
18 Auburn Engineering faculty members named to 2026 promotion, tenure list

18 Auburn Engineering faculty members named to promotion, tenure list

4/13/26 2:30 PM
Mario Eden, dean of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, speaks during the college’s annual spring awards ceremony in the Brown-Kopel Center on April 10.

Engineering recognizes outstanding students, faculty, staff, alumni

4/13/26 8:00 AM
From left: Artemis II astronauts Reid Wiseman, Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch and Victor Glover stand with Joseph Pelfrey, ’00 aerospace engineering, former director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.

The Auburn in Artemis: How engineering alumni returned us to the moon

4/10/26 7:00 PM
Eirik Mulder

#GINNing Podcast: Special Student Mulder

4/10/26 3:00 PM
Aerospace engineering seniors and Project Leviathan team members, from left, Walker Shankle, Robert Hudson and Logan Phillips with Dean Hendrix, associate dean for undergraduate studies and program assessment.

Aerospace engineering seniors win Capstone Design Showcase

4/8/26 1:00 PM
Tofayel Ahammad Ovee

Doctoral student in chemical engineering wins research showcase

4/8/26 9:20 AM
AAPT student chapter members take a photo with Aubie at the 5k hosted at NCAT's Test Track.

AAPT student chapter hosts first 5K at NCAT Test Track

4/7/26 10:30 AM
Auburn Engineering’s graduate programs were ranked No. 6 overall in the Southeastern Conference and, once again, No. 1 in the state.

Engineering graduate programs ranked No. 32 among public institutions

4/7/26 7:45 AM
Diane Pham

#GINNing Podcast: War Pham Eagle

4/3/26 4:00 PM
Jean-Francois Louf's research contributions to the Royal Society of Chemistry's Emerging Investigator Series includes "Interfacial mechanisms in the freezing of polymer solutions" and "Physical effects of hydrogel coatings on seed germination."

Assistant professor featured in Emerging Investistigator Series

4/3/26 8:50 AM
The annual research symposium drew nearly 500 students and postdoctoral researchers, who presented their work before faculty and peers.

Engineering well represented at Auburn Research Symposium

4/2/26 8:40 AM
A rendering of a 3D-printed aerospike rocket engine, a prime example of the complex designs and large-scale components NCAME can qualify with its new AMCM M-4K system. [Image courtesy of AMCM/EOS]

Large-scale advanced systems supporting NCAME qualification efforts

4/1/26 11:00 AM
Finley Gray, a junior in aerospace engineering, discusses her 2025 REU site research with Allan David, associate dean for research in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.

Auburn to host four NSF-funded summer research sites

4/1/26 11:00 AM
Eirik Mulder, an Auburn Engineering senior and Goldwater Scholar, studies aerospace engineering and computer science.

Auburn Engineering honors student named as Goldwater Scholar

3/31/26 8:00 AM
A prospective student poses with Aubie during Future Engineer Fest 2026.

Future Engineer Fest shines light on being a member of the Auburn Family

3/30/26 4:00 PM
Chanho Lee, assistant professor in mechanical engineering, holds a newly designed and fabricated refractory multi-principal element alloy sample prepared for a mechanical property test.

NSF backs Auburn-led research into rewriting rules of metallic materials

3/30/26 2:00 PM
Andrew Dillard

#GINNing Podcast: Model Student

3/27/26 8:45 AM
Elizabeth Lipke has more than 40 publications in leading journals and has been cited more than 2,000 times. She also holds several patents in biomaterial-supported cardiac differentiation and cell capture and encapsulation technologies.

Chemical engineering professor elected to AAAS Class of 2025 Fellows

3/26/26 3:55 PM
David Timm, chair of civil and environmental engineering at Auburn University, has been elected president of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists.

CEE chair named president of Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists

3/26/26 3:00 PM
The Capstone Design Showcase and Graduate Engineering Research Showcase allows students to present their research, poster style, before judges, faculty and peers.

Employer Summit, student research competitions highlight week

3/26/26 12:15 PM
Huaguo Zhou, professor of civil and environmental engineering, stands near a pedestrian crossing on Auburn University’s campus.

CEE professor awarded $350,000 for pedestrian safety research

3/25/26 3:30 PM
CSSE students Brandon Collins, left, and Logan Bolton presented their research March 6-10 at the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision in Tuscon, Arizona.

Students in CSSE tackle AI image editing questions, present research

3/25/26 2:15 PM
This year’s event was themed “Under the Sea” to mimic how a spacecraft splashes down into the ocean on return from space. Students were also encouraged to dress to the theme, with many showing up as jellyfish, sailors, turtles, pirates and more.

Record number of students participate in K-12 Outreach’s ‘The Drop’

3/25/26 8:00 AM
Awards covered writing, graphic design and special publications.

Auburn Engineering communications and marketing team earns 21 PRCA awards

3/24/26 4:00 PM
Members of Vehicle Systems, Dynamics, and Design Laboratory (VSDDL) team pose with their TW-04-s Albatross prototype during flight testing. The team advanced to the final stage of the global GoAERO Prize competition, which focuses on developing autonomy-enabled aircraft for emergency response.

Aerospace team advances to final stage of emergency aircraft contest

3/24/26 1:30 PM
An ICAMS researcher demonstrates advanced manufacturing technology, highlighting real-time data integration and machine connectivity.

ICAMS to launch satellite model to expand manufacturing access statewide

3/23/26 1:25 PM
Riley Chichester

#GINNing Podcast: The Riley Factor

3/22/26 11:00 AM
Majdalani receives the 2025 Abe M. Zarem Educator Award in Astronautics at AIAA SciTech 2026 in Orlando, Florida, on Jan. 12. He is pictured with AIAA President Daniel E. Hastings (right) and Patrick Eid (left), recipient of the Zarem Award and Medallion for Distinguished Achievement in Astronautics.

Aerospace engineering professor earns fourth Abe Zarem Educator Award

3/20/26 1:00 PM
From left: Joe Ivarson, Luis Manuel Postigo, Eirik Mulder and Nick Nurre helped lead a team that ranked No. 1 in the U.S. and No. 10 overall in NASA’s Global Trajectory Optimization Competition.

Auburn Engineering students top U.S. in NASA space competition

3/18/26 8:50 AM
Spring graduation will be May 2.

Chemical engineering alumnus to serve as spring commencement speaker

3/17/26 3:05 PM
Held across campus venues, including the Brown-Kopel Engineering Student Achievement Center and the Shelby Center, the summit brought together representatives from more than 30 companies and agencies across nearly a dozen states to discuss how digital engineering, modeling and simulation can help modernize the defense industrial base.

Auburn hosts Defense Industrial Base Digital Engineering Summit

3/17/26 10:00 AM
Yin Sun will be presented with the 2026 IEEE INFOCOM Test of Time Paper Award at its annual conference on May 19 in Toyko.

Associate professor of ECE wins IEEE INFOCOM Test of Time Paper Award

3/17/26 8:35 AM
Cheney Curls

#GINNing Podcast: The Reliability of Cheney Curls

3/14/26 8:00 AM
Masoud Mahjouri-Samani, left, created the world's first dry, ink-free printer.

Associate professor of ECE named NAI senior member

3/9/26 8:00 AM
Dalton Robinson

#GINNing Podcast: Stick We Did

3/6/26 2:00 PM
Auburn Engineering's communications and marketing team earned a variety of awards in digital, web, creative design and publications categories.

Auburn Engineering earns 17 Educational Advertising Awards

3/5/26 10:50 AM
Students in Auburn's Ethical Hacking Club, headquartered in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, finished eighth out of 45 teams in the Feb. 7 Southeast Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition qualifying round and will compete March 21-22 in the 10-team regional finals in Tampa.

Ethical Hacking Club advances to regional cyber defense finals

3/4/26 9:00 AM
Symone Alexander plans to share her research ideas at the National Academy of Engineering China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, including mixed waste feedstocks, including the recovery of cellulose from agricultural waste and the extraction and utilization of biopolymers from food waste.

Assistant professor of chemical engineering selected to NAE symposium

3/2/26 2:40 PM
Class of 2026 inductees associated with the university included (L-R) Lloyd Pitts, ’83 civil engineering; Jonathan Pettus, executive director of the Auburn University Applied Research Institute; Keith Jones, ’84 chemical engineering and ’86 electrical engineering; Barry Pike, ’83 and ’85 chemical engineering; and Glenn Rolader, president, CEO and co-founder of Integrated Solutions for Systems Inc. (IS4S), a company headquartered in Huntsville with satellite offices in Auburn and Opelika, which was selected in the corporation category.

State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame inducts Class of 2026

3/2/26 2:00 PM
The weekly forum offers five presentations across the semester, in-person or via Zoom.

Spring semester artificial intelligence forum kicks off Friday, March 6

3/2/26 12:45 PM
Jude Smith

#GINNing Podcast: The Jude Abides

2/27/26 10:00 AM
The print head of the CF3D Enterprise Cell recently installed at the Auburn University Applied Research Institute uses integrated UV curing to instantly solidify continuous carbon fibers into high-performance components.

Auburn Applied Research Institute to host CF3D Tech Tour

2/26/26 9:00 AM
Auburn TAPPI advisor Naomi Gehling (second from left) and chemical engineering senior Michael Reuss (second from right) with TAPPI President and CEO Lawton Roberts and Senior Engagement Manager Lisa Lockwood.

Auburn TAPPI student, advisor recognized at national summit

2/26/26 9:00 AM
Aubria, an AI-generated presenter created by three computer science and software engineering students, will serve as the event's keynote speaker.

Campuswide event will focus on building research communities through AI

2/25/26 12:55 PM
In this position, Mario Eden will support the AIChE Foundation’s efforts to expand scholarships, professional development programs and global initiatives that advance the chemical engineering profession.

Auburn Engineering dean named vice chair of the AIChE Foundation Board

2/24/26 12:20 PM
From left, David Bevly, Laurence Rilett and Shiwen Mao are leading a $1.9 million Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration–funded project at Auburn University to test RFID-enabled smart tire technology aimed at improving highway safety.

AUTRI receives $1.9 million to study tire technology for highway safety

2/23/26 1:30 PM
Jin Wang, the Walt and Virginia Woltosz Professor of chemical engineering, is principal investigator on a collaborative project with the DOE's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.

Chemical engineering professor collaborating with Department of Energy

2/23/26 7:55 AM
Matthew Clegg

#GINNing Podcast: Matthew the Maker

2/20/26 4:00 PM
Yin Sun and graduate students are developing a pair of test beds to evaluate how time-sensitive communication performs in public and industrial environments.

Associate professor of ECE earns ADECA grant to advance 6G communications

2/19/26 2:45 PM
Auburn University will explore how artificial intelligence has evolved from Hollywood fantasy to real world technology through its annual AI film series, beginning Monday, Feb. 23 with WarGames, followed by Tron: Ares on March 17 and concluding with Wonderland on April 13.

AI film series kicks off Monday, Feb. 23

2/19/26 2:05 PM
NCAT Director Randy West, inaugural Peter and Lisa Wilson Distinguished Professor in Auburn University’s Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.

NCAT director named Peter and Lisa Wilson Distinguished Professor

2/17/26 7:30 AM
A rendering of the entrance to the Analytical, Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Laboratory and expanded makerspace, featuring a new terraced entrance off the Ginn Concourse.

Auburn Engineering to expand nation’s largest makerspace

2/13/26 12:50 PM
Casey Eaton

#GINNing Podcast: All Systems Go

2/13/26 10:51 AM
Entrepreneurs advancing beyond the semifinal round will compete in the 12th Tiger Cage finals on Friday, March 25, for up to $135,000 in startup capital.

Two Auburn engineers reach Feb. 27 Tiger Cage semifinals

2/13/26 9:30 AM
Tim Cook, Apple CEO and a 1982 Auburn University industrial engineering graduate, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering as part of its Class of 2026.

Apple CEO, Auburn alumnus elected to National Academy of Engineering

2/11/26 1:20 PM
Assistant Professor Cassandra Porter inspects a recently synthesized brush active-layer membrane that soaks in solvent to remove unreacted monomers and catalysts.

Assistant professor of chemical engineering earns DOE Early Career Award

2/11/26 9:00 AM
Gov. Kay Ivey speaks during the governor’s luncheon at the 69th annual Alabama Transportation Conference in Huntsville. Larry Rilett, director of the Auburn University Transportation Research Institute, is seated to her left, alongside Alabama Department of Transportation officials.

Auburn marks 69 years of hosting Alabama Transportation Conference

2/10/26 2:30 PM
Sand, rocks, gravel and toilet paper are some of the materials students in Jonathan Davis' BSEN 2210 Engineering Methods for Biological Systems course use to create workable water filters.

Outside the box, inside the bottle: BSE class features unique filtration

2/6/26 11:00 AM

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