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Retired UA Co-op Director Honored with National Award    /  UA News

Dr. William “Bill” Taylor, who led cooperative education efforts at The University of Alabama for nearly 20 years, is receiving national recognition for his career in cooperative education by the American Society of Engineering Education, or ASEE.


Author: Associated Engineering Press    /    Published: April 20, 2015    /    Posted in:   Awards and Honors, Faculty and Staff, UA News   

Hartselle High School wins state robotics competition    /  Tech Alabama

Hartselle High School fielded robotics teams for the first time at the Alabama Robotics Competition at the University of Alabama, but the school did not perform like rookies. One of…


Source: Tech Alabama    /    Published: April 17, 2015    /    Posted in:   Computer Science, In The News, Outreach    /    Features:     

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Huge tornado research project coming to Alabama, Southeast next year    /  AL.com

Alabama and the Southeast will be ground zero next spring for the continuation of one of the largest tornado research projects in history. The working title for now is Vortex-Southeast,…


Source: AL.com    /    Published: April 17, 2015    /    Posted in:   Center for Advanced Public Safety, Faculty and Staff, In The News, Research    /    Features:     

ADTRAN Senior Design Showcase features state colleges    /  Tech Alabama

ADTRAN is letting college students show off their engineering skills at their 5th annual Senior Design Showcase. “They’re able to present and share with the ADTRAN engineering and executive committees…


Source: Tech Alabama    /    Published: April 17, 2015    /    Posted in:   In The News, Students   

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UA Honors Faculty, Students and Residents at Excellence in Community Engagement Awards Luncheon    /  UA News

The UA Council on Community-Based Partnerships will honor leaders in community engagement at the ninth annual Excellence in Community Engagement awards luncheon Friday, April 17, at the Bryant Conference Center. The program begins at 10 a.m. with research poster presentations, and the awards program starts at 11:30. The council also will celebrate UA’s 2015 Carnegie recognition as an engaged institution and award the first Zachary Dodson Memorial Scholarship.


Author: Associated Engineering Press    /    Published: April 16, 2015    /    Posted in:   Awards and Honors, Events, Outreach, Students, UA News    /    Features:     

Engineering a New Path

At 16, Corey Dennis hadn’t visited many places outside of Alabama. The Mobile native said he enjoyed life, but never did too much. A split second changed his perspective forever…


Author: Jessie Patterson Jones    /    Published: April 15, 2015    /    Posted in:   Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Students   

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Lindly Receives UA Engineering’s Hackney Leadership Award    /  UA News

The University of Alabama College of Engineering’s Dr. Jay K. Lindly, professor of civil engineering and director of the University Transportation Center for Alabama, is the 2015 T. Morris Hackney Endowed Faculty Leadership award recipient.


Author: Associated Engineering Press    /    Published: April 15, 2015    /    Posted in:   Awards and Honors, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Faculty and Staff, UA News   

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UA Honors Five Distinguished Engineering Fellows    /  UA News

The University of Alabama College of Engineering honored five alumni by inducting them into its 2015 class of Distinguished Engineering Fellows.


Author: Associated Engineering Press    /    Published: April 14, 2015    /    Posted in:   Awards and Honors, UA News   

Co-op provide students with opportunities    /  Crimson White

At 7:30 a.m. many college students are still asleep. At 7:30 a.m. many mornings last year, Scott Nagy was walking into a production meeting with the company’s professional engineering team. Nagy,…


Source: Crimson White    /    Published: April 13, 2015    /    Posted in:   In The News, Students   

UA professor, student measure intensity of helmet impacts during collisions    /  The Tuscaloosa News

The crack of football helmets is a distinct sound and one that a University of Alabama mechanical engineering professor and his student believe could be analyzed as part of a…


Source: The Tuscaloosa News    /    Published: April 13, 2015    /    Posted in:   Faculty and Staff, In The News, Mechanical Engineering, Research, Students    /    Features:     

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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.