New UA Degree Mixes Music, Engineering
The musical audio engineering degree offers a balance between two disciplines to prepare students for careers involving technical aspects of music. Read more
Dr. Tim A. Haskew
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Tim Haskew's research interests include electromechanical actuation, power electronics and electric machines. Read more about Dr. Tim A. Haskew
Engineering Seniors Win Second Consecutive IEEE Robotic Competition
For the second consecutive year, a senior robotics team from The University of Alabama took home a win at an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers regional conference. Read more
In The News: UA engineering professors create sensor to prevent hot-car deaths
A pair of University of Alabama professors has devised a monitor meant to help prevent accidental hot-car deaths and injuries among children left in vehicles. “The idea is that if there is someone or anything that breathes that is left in the car unattended, that the driver or the owner… Read more
Sources: Tuscaloosa News, NBC 13 (Birmingham), Fox 6 (Birmingham), CBS 42 (Birmingham), WVUA (Tuscaloosa), ABC 33/40 (Birmingham), Yellowhammer News, WVUA (Tuscaloosa)
UA Engineers Develop Solution to Child Heat Deaths in Cars
A patent-pending device developed by University of Alabama researchers can alert a cell phone when a human or animal is inside a parked vehicle getting too hot. It monitors carbon dioxide levels from human breath inside the vehicle along with temperature and car movement. Read more
In The News: UA Professors Cracking Sustainable Car Code
Obama-era EPA rules may be on their way out but that doesn’t mean the search for more sustainable transportation is over. The University of Alabama and three other schools were recently picked by the National Science Foundation to make automobiles more fuel efficient. Read more
Sources: Business Alabama
UA’s Electric Vehicle Focus Part of National Transportation Collaboration
The University of Alabama is one of four universities selected by the National Science Foundation to team together with government agencies and private companies to tackle challenges facing technological advances in automobiles. Read more
A Crimson Connection
When a University of Alabama football player with an injured arm instinctively stiff-armed a defender in the 2015 Southeastern Conference Championship Game, he was able to do so thanks to doctors, athletic trainers, engineering students, professors and a 3-D printer. Read more
In The News: An Environmentally Friendly Muscle Car
Environmentalists, start your engines? When you think about the Camaro, the term “muscle car” comes to mind… A team at the University of Alabama has lept forward in the process. This four-year competition has seen them finish eighth nationally in their first year and then vaulting to fourth overall after the… Read more
Sources: ASME
In The News: University of Alabama team takes fourth in national EcoCar competition
Dubbed as the “Team to Watch” in the 2015 EcoCar3 Year One competition, the University of Alabama engineering students knew they were going to have to work hard to live up to their reputation in Year Two. Fast-forward a year and the new kids on the block not only lived… Read more
Sources: Alabama News Center, WHNT CBS 19, WIAT CBS 42
In The News: Center to focus on athletics, technology: Goal is to improve training, performance
The University of Alabama is launching a new interdisciplinary center focusing on technology and athletics with the aim of improving training and performance. “First and foremost, it will be looking at the athletic arena, but it is clear to us what is going to happen is it will have broad… Read more
Sources: The Tuscaloosa News, WAAY ABC 31, Birmingham Business Journal, WBRC Fox 6 (video), WBRC Fox 6 (article), The Crimson White, Sport Techie, Alabama News Center, University Herald
