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The University of Alabama was recently awarded a patent for a medical privacy tent developed by engineering students and Crimson Tide Athletics, firmly protecting the tent’s unique capability to easily expand or collapse on the sideline of a football field.
Author: Adam Jones / Published: February 12, 2018 / Posted in: Alumni, Awards and Honors, Mechanical Engineering, UA News
The University of Alabama’s win in the College Football Playoff wasn’t the school’s only big football-related win in January. The school was also assigned a patent for the collapsable sideline tent…
Source: Birmingham Business Journal / Published: February 8, 2018 / Posted in: Alumni, Awards and Honors, In The News, Mechanical Engineering / Features: Dr. Charles L. Karr
The University of Alabama has partnered with the United States Naval Observatory to train UA students in precise timing and time interval technology, which is used in highly precise atomic clocks on which the U.S. military, financial sector, GPS satellites and power grids rely.
Author: Associated Engineering Press / Published: February 7, 2018 / Posted in: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty and Staff, Outreach, Students, UA News / Features: Dr. Andrew Lemmon
In response to future energy challenges, chemical engineers at The University of Alabama are creating new materials to more efficiently separate gases related to energy processes.
Author: Adam Jones / Published: February 6, 2018 / Posted in: Chemical and Biological Engineering, Faculty and Staff, Research, UA News / Features: Dr. C. Heath Turner, Dr. Jason E. Bara
Dr. Viola Acoff led a 10-member team from The University of Alabama at the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP) 2018 Dissemination Conference in Anchorage, Alaska, Jan. 17-20.
Author: Alana Norris / Published: January 29, 2018 / Posted in: Faculty and Staff, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Outreach, Students / Features: Dr. Viola L. Acoff
As cars have gotten sleeker and lighter over the decades, nostalgia about cars of yesteryear often romanticize their sturdiness – huge boxes of steel ready to take on any impact….
Source: Alabama News Center / Published: January 26, 2018 / Posted in: Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, Faculty and Staff, In The News, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Research, Students / Features: Dr. Luke N. Brewer, Dr. Mark E. Barkey
As cars have gotten sleeker and lighter over the decades, nostalgia about cars of yesteryear often romanticize their sturdiness – huge boxes of steel ready to take on any impact. It is a memory often not rooted in the reality of the safety of today’s vehicles.
Author: Adam Jones / Published: January 19, 2018 / Posted in: Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, Faculty and Staff, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Research, Students, UA News / Features: Dr. Luke N. Brewer, Dr. Mark E. Barkey
The Alabama State Trooper Association on Tuesday called on legislators and Gov. Kay Ivey to address what they say is a critical shortage of troopers on the road … A…
Source: Officer.com / Published: January 17, 2018 / Posted in: Center for Advanced Public Safety, Faculty and Staff, In The News, Research
A recent paper in Reviews of Geophysics describes the formation and behavior of oil-sediment residues in marine and coastal environments following an oil spill. (T. Prabhakar Clement, Department of Civil, Construction and…
Source: American Geophysical Union - Earth and Space Science News / Published: January 12, 2018 / Posted in: Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Faculty and Staff, In The News, Research / Features: Dr. Prabhakar Clement
We had some fantastic submissions to the 2017 EAP University Grant Program! Applicants used STK to demonstrate their problem solving and creating thinking. Selecting the top scenario was a challenging decision,…
Source: Public / Published: January 11, 2018 / Posted in: Awards and Honors, In The News, Mechanical Engineering, Research, Students
In 1837, The University of Alabama became one of the first five universities in the nation to offer engineering classes. Today, UA’s College of Engineering has more than 5,800 students and more than 150 faculty. In recent years, students in the College have been named USA Today All-USA College Academic Team members, Goldwater, Hollings, Portz, Boren, Mitchell and Truman scholars.
