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The report underscores the importance of building a skilled cybersecurity workforce through expanded educational programs and flexible employment arrangements, calling for a balanced, holistic approach toward emerging technologies, ensuring innovation while safeguarding national security.

McCrary Institute releases presidential transition task force report

10/22/24 1:10 PM
Pictured are Wills Cook and Brock Baker, seniors in industrial and systems engineering, Nick Smith and Ford Watson, seniors in mechanical engineering and Conner Knighten and Walker Hartfield, seniors in the Harbert College of Business. The team collaborated to develop the Infinity Flex, a modifiable cable attachment for a multitude of upper body exercises.

ISE students collaborate to develop exercise equipment

10/22/24 1:00 PM
Ben Bauldree

#GINNing Podcast: Boom

10/18/24 12:00 PM
Yaqub Adediji

Materials engineering doctoral student wins prestigious EDF award

10/18/24 11:00 AM
Shiwen Mao will investigate how to integrate drone localization, millimeter wave communications, wireless sensing and security with artificial intelligence and machine learning for future 6G systems.

Professor earns $300K NSF grant to revolutionize future 6G systems

10/15/24 1:00 PM
Auburn University recognizes faculty for their exemplary leadership, innovative research, scholarship, creative work and dedicated service to the university and the broader community.

Engineering faculty members among those to be recognized by university

10/15/24 10:30 AM
Charles Gavin and Gerald Pouncey

Prominent engineering alumni headline Fall 2024 commencement ceremonies

10/15/24 9:00 AM
Wills Crook

#GINNing Podcast: Where There's a Wills, There's a Way

10/11/24 9:00 AM
Industrial and systems engineering junior Phedra Peter (left) and Shannon Young, Center for Inspiring Engineering Excellence (CI2E) program coordinator, pose at a center networking event in 2023.

Support program rebrands as Center for Inspiring Engineering Excellence

10/10/24 12:00 PM
Auburn Makersfest 2024 is offering $2,000 in prize money to any Auburn student who has developed a product, written a song, or composed a poem – anything that was created – during a competition meant to stimulate creative thinking.

Auburn Makersfest submissions due Oct. 18

10/8/24 3:00 PM
Phedra Peter

#GINNing Podcast: Phantastic Phedra

10/4/24 9:45 AM
Jeff LaMondia, professor in civil and environmental engineering, works with communities to install a new crosswalk in Eutaw, Alabama.

CEE earns federal grant to promote walking and cycling in Alabama

10/3/24 2:00 PM
Pengyu Chen

NIH awards another $1.9M towards Auburn immunodiagnostics research

10/3/24 11:00 AM
Students with innovative business ideas have the opportunity to compete for a share of $6,000 in start-up capital.

Registration deadline approaching for sixth Halloween Pitch Competition

10/3/24 8:00 AM
From left, Daniel A. Henderson, creator of photo/video messaging capability, Frank Canova, inventor of the smart phone and Neil Papworth, who sent the first text message.

Pioneers of mobile revolution share lessons, experiences with students

10/1/24 2:00 PM
October marks the 21st Cybersecurity Awareness Month, designated by the federal government for public and private sectors to work together to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity.

Auburn researchers are on the front lines to help prevent cyberattacks

10/1/24 8:00 AM
Haley Bhend

#GINNing Podcast: Miss Mercedes

9/26/24 4:15 PM
Lucila Carias, a third-year graduate student in polymer and fiber engineering, is researching ways to print 3D houses.

Chemical engineering graduate program empowers students for success

9/26/24 3:00 PM
Robbie Ledet

Auburn announces new Nuclear Power Generation Systems program director

9/25/24 2:30 PM
Justin Littlefield, a senior in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, has been awarded the 2024 Astronaut Scholarship Foundation award.  

Senior aerospace engineering student awarded the Astronaut Scholarship

9/25/24 2:30 PM
Over the next three years, Jorge Valenzuela, Philpott-WestPoint Stevens Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Tom Devall, Tiger Motors Lab director, and Chih-hsuan Wang, professor in the Department of Educational Foundations, Leadership and Technology, will lead the Tiger Motors Lab project.

Professors receive $400K NSF grant for Lean Manufacturing education

9/25/24 2:10 PM
Auburn Engineering’s Career Development and Corporate Relations (CDCR) office will host Aerospace Industry Day on Oct. 1 and Biotechnology Industry Day on Oct. 16. Both will take place from noon to 3 p.m. at the Brown-Kopel Center Grand Hall.

CDCR to host Aerospace and Biotechnology Industry Days in October

9/25/24 10:00 AM
Auburn Engineering’s undergraduate program also ranked fourth among the 13 public institutions in the Southeastern Conference and — again — No. 1 in the state.

Auburn Engineering undergraduate programs ranked No. 30 nationally

9/24/24 7:20 AM
The McCrary Institute, based at Auburn University with additional centers in Washington, D.C., and Huntsville, seeks practical solutions to pressing challenges in the areas of cyber and critical infrastructure security.

McCrary Institute appoints senior defense, policy executives

9/23/24 7:30 AM
Viewers will have the opportunity to watch the movies, then learn from Auburn University experts, who will serve as discussion leaders.

Film series explains how AI in movies is applicable to daily life

9/20/24 10:00 AM
Parker Thompson

#GINNing Podcast: Parker Thompson Can't Lose

9/20/24 8:00 AM
Raziyeh Jokar, Rachel Day, Vivian Usha and Noor Fatima.

Biosystems engineering students design alginate-based granola wrappers

9/17/24 2:00 PM
The 2024 Auburn Alumni Engineering Council award winners included Distinguished Auburn Engineers Maury Gaston, ’82 mechanical engineering; Chris Kramer, ’94 civil engineering; Shirley Boulware, ’91 chemical engineering; Art Slotkin, ’68 aerospace engineering; Outstanding Young Auburn Engineer Jordan Watkins, ’12 civil engineering; and Superior Service Sushil Bhavnani, professor emeritus.

Auburn Alumni Engineering Council honors 6 with college’s highest awards

9/17/24 12:00 AM
Phoebe Judkins, a student in civil and environmental engineering, talks with employers during a career fair hosted by the College of Engineering’s Career Development and Corporate Relations office in October 2023.

CDCR to host engineering career fair in September

9/16/24 10:00 AM
Kate Handel

#GINNing Podcast: The President of Mars

9/13/24 10:45 AM
Gary Godfrey

Brew Good to Do Good in the Fight Against ALS

9/12/24 2:00 PM
Medal of Honor recipient Maj. Gen. James E. Livingston was honored as the Gameday Hero during the Tigers’ football game versus California on Sept. 7. (photo courtesy of Luke Allen/Auburn Tigers)

Sept. 7 Gameday Hero is Auburn’s only Medal of Honor recipient

9/12/24 2:00 PM
Reza Molaei

Multiaxial fatigue and fracture expert joins NCAME

9/12/24 9:00 AM
Mario Eden, dean of engineering, and Virginia Davis, Breeden Professor of chemical engineering.

Engineering dean, chemical engineering professor named AIChE Fellows

9/11/24 7:40 AM
Professor Emeritus Victor Nelson has been a fixture on faculty at Auburn University since 1978, serving now as a visiting lecturer.

Professor emeritus in ECE to be presented with prestigious IEEE award

9/9/24 8:40 AM
Mark Norton

#GINNing Podcast: Dude, You're Getting Adele

9/6/24 1:20 PM
Masoud Mahjouri-Samani with graduate students Suman Jaiswal (seated) and Aarsh Patel in the LASE-END laboratory at Broun Hall.

Associate professor in ECE part of $540K NSF grant

9/6/24 9:00 AM
Daniel Little, a doctoral student in aerospace engineering, (middle) was named Graduate Student of the Year by AIAA Greater Huntsville Section. He stands next to Joe Majdalani (left), the Hugh and Loeda Francis Chair of Excellence in aerospace engineering at Auburn and Andrew Keys (right), Section vice chair.

Auburn Engineering students awarded at AIAA Greater Huntsville Section

9/5/24 9:00 AM
Ujjwal Guin uses an Advantest T2000 ATE for research. The platform adopts a module architecture and can be flexibly reconfigured by rearranging the necessary functional modules according to the application.

Associate professor in ECE leads $600K NSF grant

9/4/24 11:25 AM
Haynes Heaton and collaborators were awarded a $3.5 million grant from the National Institute of Health for their project, "A Compass for Those With Relapsed Leukemia After Transplants."

Software developed by assistant professor in CSSE part of $3.5M NIH grant

9/4/24 10:15 AM
From left: Sathya Aakur, Brendon Allen, Davide Guzzetti and Tin Nguyen.

Four engineering faculty members named Ginn Faculty Achievement Fellows

9/3/24 9:00 AM
Huaguo Zhou, the Elton Z. and Lois G. Huff Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was recently awarded for his research on intoxicated drivers and engineering measures to prevent wrong-way driving.

CEE professor awarded for research on wrong-way driving countermeasures

9/3/24 9:00 AM
Ali Khosravi, assistant professor in civil and environmental engineer (right), Bart Prorok, a materials engineering professor (middle), and Paul Bartley, an assistant professor in horticulture at Auburn University (left) stand in front of the PSX Macro CT machine in the X-ray Computed Tomography Lab.

CEE assistant professor examines temperature change impact on permafrost

9/3/24 8:30 AM
The event is open to all members of the Auburn University academic community.

Auburn Engineering to host pioneers of mobile revolution on Sept. 30

8/30/24 1:00 PM
Ben Timm

#GINNing Podcast: Count Off

8/30/24 9:30 AM
The lecture series can be viewed in-person or online.

Artificial intelligence fall lecture series kicks off Friday, Sept. 6

8/30/24 9:00 AM
Adekanmi Adeyinka

MechE doctoral student earns SAE Doctoral Engineering Scholarship

8/29/24 11:00 AM
Michael Perez, director of the AU-SRF and Brasfield & Gorrie associate professor in civil and environmental engineering, is the principal investigator (PI) on the three-year, $750,000 grant from the National Academy of Sciences’ National Cooperative Highway Research Program.

AU-SRF to develop erosion and sediment control design guidelines

8/28/24 8:00 AM
Masoud Mahjouri-Samani, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, works with graduate student Aarsh Patel, left.

Associate professor in ECE earns $475,000 grant

8/27/24 7:40 AM
In its sixth iteration at Auburn University, Cyber Fire Puzzles took almost 60 students on a journey through binaries and malicious programs, giving them the opportunity to develop skills for tracking would-be hackers via sequences and software clues.

Cyber Fire Puzzles provides challenges for tomorrow's cyber defenders

8/26/24 9:00 AM
Susan Story

#GINNing Podcast: Story's Time

8/23/24 3:00 PM
This 2-ton, additively manufactured RS25 nozzle liner — the largest component of its kind in the world — was printed in 2021 on the strength of Auburn Engineering research conducted through NASA's RAMPT program.

Auburn AM research is key component in NASA's Invention of the Year

8/22/24 2:00 PM
Mechanical engineering junior Patrick Byrne, left, and business student Cade Owens were both interns in the Disney College Program.

Auburn + Disney: Students, alumni make excellent cast members

8/22/24 12:00 AM
AUTRI provides a unified presence and strategic direction for coordinating and conducting cutting-edge transportation-related research within the academic departments and research centers in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.

AUTRI leads Auburn’s transportation research into the future 

8/19/24 10:00 AM
Pradeep Lall, the MacFarlane Endowed Distinguished Professor and Alumni Professor of mechanical engineering, displays an in-mold galvanic skin response sensor for automotive applications additively manufactured at the Auburn University Electronics Packaging Research Institute.

Auburn establishes Electronics Packaging Research Institute

8/19/24 9:55 AM
Barry Fagan (left), owner of Fagan Consulting of Prattville, poses for a photo with Megan Armstrong, a civil and environmental engineering graduate student (middle), and Michael Perez, director of the Stormwater Research Facility and Brasfield & Gorrie associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (right), during a poster presentation for their portable, self-contained stormwater treatment device to treat stormwater runoff and protect the waters of Alabama and the U.S.

Stormwater Research Facility develops portable stormwater device

8/19/24 8:00 AM
Jason Nelson

#GINNing Podcast: Track'em

8/16/24 8:00 AM
teacher in front of students with drawings on a board

First-year engineering students to study ‘sketchnoting’

8/15/24 4:00 PM
Jeff LaMondia, professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, (left) and Ben Bowers, assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering, (right) analyze data to help local and state agencies incorporate transportation resilience policies into their everyday planning.

CEE faculty plan to help agencies with resilience planning

8/12/24 12:00 PM
Cassandra Porter earned a three-year, $303,707 grant from the National Science Foundation.

Assistant professor in chemical engineering earns $303K NSF grant

8/9/24 1:00 PM
Mari Miles Dempsey

#GINNing Podcast: Slime Time

8/9/24 10:00 AM
Mechanical engineering professor emeritus Sushil Bhavnani (center) receives the the prestigious International Space Station National Lab 2024 Compelling Results Award at this year's International Space Station Research and Development Conference in Boston.

MechE professor emeritus honored for NSF research aboard ISS

8/8/24 10:00 AM
Steve Newton poses for a picture with his wife, Dorothy Newton, at the Alabama Sports Officials Foundation Hall of Fame ceremony.

CEE alum inducted into Alabama Sports Officials Foundation Hall of Fame

8/7/24 2:00 PM
Yun Lee presenting ceremonial check to Engineering Dean Mario Eden on behalf of HL Mando America

HL Mando America Corp. recognized for support of mechanical engineering

8/6/24 1:00 PM
Auburn's Department of Biosystems Engineering was represented by 42 faculty members and graduate students at the 2024 ASABE International Meeting.

Auburn Biosystems Engineering dominates at 2024 ASABE International

8/5/24 2:00 PM
JaVaris Branford

#GINNing Podcast: Ride for the Branford

8/2/24 4:00 PM
Auburn Engineering Safety Manager Emmanuel Winful.

Auburn Engineering presented with Innovation Award for Safety Culture

8/2/24 1:00 PM
Participants in the Minority Introduction to Engineering program put engineering principles to the test with hands-on activities.

MITE program introduces STEM principles to underrepresented students

7/30/24 12:00 PM
Benjamin Steber was heavily involved in extracurricular activities at Auburn, including Engineers Without Borders, Chi Epsilon and the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Civil and Environmental Engineering senior named graduation marshal

7/26/24 10:00 AM
Levi Petix spent a week this summer at MoISSI's Blacksburg, Virginia, headquarters.

Graduate student in chemical engineering earns MoISSI fellowship

7/26/24 8:05 AM
The Moon to Mars eXploration Systems and Habitation (M2M X-Hab) 2025 Academic Innovation Challenge is a university-level challenge designed to develop strategic partnerships and collaborations with universities.

NASA selects MechE students to contribute to Artemis missions

7/25/24 4:00 PM
Photo by NAPA. NAPA Road Scholars Check presented to NCAT at Auburn University

NCAT honored with NAPAREF Road Scholars endowment check

7/23/24 9:50 AM
Nineteen undergraduate students made research poster presentations before peers, faculty and judges on Friday, July 19.

SURE program gives undergraduates a taste of graduate school

7/23/24 7:00 AM
Panagiotis Mistriotis is using engineering knowledge to improve the properties of adult stem cells for cellular therapies and tissue regeneration.

Assistant professor in chemical engineering named 2024 Young Innovator

7/22/24 8:00 AM
Matthew Kirchner

#GINNing Podcast: Let's Make a Deal

7/19/24 8:00 AM
Dean Hendrix assumes the position of associate dean for undergraduate studies and program assessment effective Aug. 1.

Hendrix named associate dean for undergrad studies and program assessment

7/17/24 12:40 PM
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