UA Robotics Team Aims for Three Championships in a Row
After winning the top prize at a NASA robotics contest the past two years, a team of students at The University of Alabama returns to defend its title… Read more
In The News: UA team preparing for NASA robotics competition
At about 1 a.m. Monday, Rebecca Dietz noticed something wrong with “MARTE.” Dietz, a senior studying mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama, and several other members of the Alabama Astrobotics team were testing “MARTE,” a robotic excavator they had built, in the back of Hardaway Hall when the digging… Read more
Sources: Tuscaloosa News , Fox 6 (Birmingham)
In The News: CAPS to study data from Click-It-Or-Ticket Campaign
Click-It-Or-Ticket is a national campaign designed to save lives by encouraging more people to wear seatbelts. This year’s enforcement campaign will run from May 22 through June 4. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has awarded more than $58,000 in grant money for traffic safety data to be collected and evaluated. The… Read more
Sources: WKRG-CBS (Mobile), WHNT-CBS (Huntsville)
In The News: UA Crimson Racing Team to head to national competition
We don’t see a lot of race cars at Bryant-Denny Stadium, but we did today. The number 15 race car is the work of Mechanical Engineering students, right here at The University of Alabama. These students are all part of the Crimson Racing Team. They designed and built the race… Read more
Sources: WVUA (Tuscaloosa)
Move over, Excalibur
Four engineering students completed a year-long project in which they replicated an 18th century British Hanger rapier. Read more
In The News: Seeing Safe Driving and Self-Driving as Going Hand in Hand
There is a mechanical engineer and professor of mechanical and electrical engineering— whose distinguished and globe-trotting career has already spanned over 40 years— who can simply and succinctly explain how autonomous driving technologies will actually make it onto a road near you… and sooner than you might think possible …… Read more
Sources: Trucking Info
UA Engineering Student Wins Bioethics Essay Contest
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Kaylee O’Connor, a junior chemical and biological engineering student from Fort Worth, Texas, won first place in the Institute of Biological Engineering bioethics essay competition. O’Connor’s submission titled “The Cost of Compassion,” was initially chosen as one of the top five essays written on an ethical dilemma… Read more
UA Graduates Take a Look Back
Robert Brackbill Carlisle, Pennsylvania/Gardendale, Alabama Bachelor’s, Operations Management UA senior Robert Brackbill’s list of combat deployments in Afghanistan spans more than a decade, from the beginning of Operation… Read more
UA Students Selected for National Research Experience
Two juniors at The University of Alabama were selected to work this summer at one of the of the nation’s premiere research institutions for the physical and engineering sciences. Read more
UA Computer Science Students Start CrimsonHacks Hacking Competition
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Five University of Alabama computer science seniors and members of the Association for Computing Machinery UA student chapter started a hacking competition this semester that they hope will become a yearly event. CrimsonHacks is a hackathon, or a weekend-long invention challenge. The 24-hour event took place on… Read more
