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UA Robotics Team Aims for Three Championships in a Row    /  UA News

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


Author: Adam Jones    /    Published: May 16, 2017    /    Posted in:   Electrical and Computer Engineering, Events, Mechanical Engineering, Research, Students, UA News    /    Features:     

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UA team preparing for NASA robotics competition    /  The Tuscaloosa News

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…


Source: The Tuscaloosa News    /    Published: May 16, 2017    /    Posted in:   Electrical and Computer Engineering, Events, In The News, Mechanical Engineering, Research, Students    /    Features:     

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CAPS to study data from Click-It-Or-Ticket Campaign    /  WKRG-CBS (Mobile)

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…


Source: WKRG-CBS (Mobile)    /    Published: May 12, 2017    /    Posted in:   Center for Advanced Public Safety, Faculty and Staff, In The News, Research   

UA Crimson Racing Team to head to national competition    /  WVUA

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…


Source: WVUA    /    Published: May 9, 2017    /    Posted in:   Events, In The News, Mechanical Engineering, Students   

Move over, Excalibur    /  UA News

Four engineering students completed a year-long project in which they replicated an 18th century British Hanger rapier.


Author: Kim Eaton    /    Published: May 9, 2017    /    Posted in:   Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Research, Students, UA News    /    Features:     

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Seeing Safe Driving and Self-Driving as Going Hand in Hand    /  Trucking Info

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…


Source: Trucking Info    /    Published: May 6, 2017    /    Posted in:   Center for Advanced Vehicle Technologies, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty and Staff, In The News, Mechanical Engineering    /    Features:     

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…


Author: Alana Norris    /    Published: May 5, 2017    /    Posted in:   Awards and Honors, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Students    /    Features:     

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UA Graduates Take a Look Back    /  UA News

    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 […]


Author: Associated Engineering Press    /    Published: May 5, 2017    /    Posted in:   Students, UA News   

UA Students Selected for National Research Experience    /  UA News

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.


Author: Adam Jones    /    Published: May 4, 2017    /    Posted in:   Awards and Honors, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Research, Students, UA News   

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…


Author: Alana Norris    /    Published: May 4, 2017    /    Posted in:   Computer Science, Events, Outreach, Students   

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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.