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In The News: University of Alabama team look at untreated sewage issue

April 15, 2019 - Tuscaloosa News - Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering

How much untreated sewage gets dumped in Alabama’s Black Belt? That’s the question a team of students and professors at the University of Alabama is trying to determine. Read more

Sources: Tuscaloosa News, USA Today, NBC 13 (Birmingham), Yellowhammer News, Alabama News Center, AL.com, Alabama Public Radio, U.S. News, 945 The Answer, Washington Times, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Beaumont Enterprise (Texas), Bristol Herald Courier (Virginia), WWLP 22 (Chicopee, Massachusetts), West Plains Daily Quill (New York), Municipal Water and Sewer Magazine, Al.com

In The News: UA students participate in Drone Racing competition at UAH

April 14, 2019 - WBRE-NBC (Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania) - Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics

Ben Fischer, University of Alabama: “We scratch build all of it. Some of us design. Like, I like to design my own frames, so we design it out. Get it milled out of carbon fiber and put it all together with electronics.” Kelly Kennedy, Eyewitness News: “Right behind me is… Read more

Sources: WBRE-NBC (Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania)

EPA Grant Assists in Understanding Wastewater Issues in Rural Alabama

April 9, 2019 - Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering

With a grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency, researchers from environmental engineering and geology will build a model to quantify the extent of untreated raw sewage discharges from homes throughout five counties in the Black Belt, an economically depressed region in the state. Read more

In The News: Mind-Controlled Drones: Not As Far Away As You Think

April 5, 2019 - Forbes - Computer Science

Not long ago, moving objects with your mind was the province of Jedi knights and boy wizards. But on April 6, competitors and spectators will descend on the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa for the Brain-Drone Race competition, in which competitors will race drones by moving them only with their… Read more

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Engineering First-Class Facitilites: H.M. Comer Hall Renovated to One-Stop Shop for Students

April 3, 2019

The new H.M. Comer Hall radiates professionalism and class and is a one-stop shop for students to get all of their engineering needs met in one place. The newly renovated building provides an appropriate entryway into the Shelby Engineering and Science Quad and has become the portal into The University… Read more