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Back when they were students at the University of Alabama’s School of Engineering, Arnar Thors says he and Matt Fitzgerald often collaborated on class assignments and even built race cars…
Source: Business Alabama / Published: November 14, 2014 / Posted in: Alumni, In The News, Mechanical Engineering
Chris Bond can remember the time he watched an old man smile from ear to ear as the man lit his home for the first time. Just before, the two…
Author: Judah Martin / Published: November 13, 2014 / Posted in: Alumni, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Outreach
Grace Guin and Lexi Romine, two University of Alabama graduates, were recently selected to receive nationally competitive awards by the Society of Women Engineers. Ten members of SWE collegiate chapters…
Source: Crimson White / Published: October 7, 2014 / Posted in: Alumni, Awards and Honors, In The News / Features: Dr. Beth Ann Todd
Two women managers, including UA graduate, oversee the $280 million Grandview Medical Center project for Brasfield & Gorrie — marking the 50-year-old company’s longstanding initiatives to advance women builders.
Source: Business Alabama / Published: September 23, 2014 / Posted in: Alumni, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, In The News
FOLEY, Alabama — Foley recently welcomed Chad Christian to the position of city engineer. Christian came to Foley from the city of Tuscaloosa, where he worked for 15 years as drainage…
Source: AL.com / Published: July 26, 2014 / Posted in: Alumni, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, In The News
A 1996 civil engineering graduate from the University of Alabama, Trent Boyd was working for a building and excavation contractor in Birmingham when it closed its doors two years ago….
Source: Business Alabama / Published: July 7, 2014 / Posted in: Alumni, In The News
David Reeves began his career at Mercedes Benz at the Tuscaloosa County plant when he was a co-op student at the University of Alabama. The mechanical engineering major and Vestavia…
Source: Birmingham Business Journal / Published: June 19, 2014 / Posted in: Alumni, In The News, Mechanical Engineering
Tanzania Adams saw few women in her classes while earning her engineering degree at the University of Alabama about 25 years ago. There weren’t many women co-workers at Southern Company…
Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution / Published: June 13, 2014 / Posted in: Alumni, In The News, Outreach
Ben Bickerstaff always imagined that he would be “somewhere turning salt water into fresh water.” A native of Anniston, Alabama, and a graduate of the University of Alabama civil engineering…
Source: Crimson White / Published: June 4, 2014 / Posted in: Alumni, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, In The News, Students
These numbers come from a survey just released by NerdScholar, the higher education unit of NerdWallet, a five-year-old personal finance website based in San Francisco… 31. University of Alabama, College of Engineering Average salary: $60,700
Source: Forbes.com / Published: May 30, 2014 / Posted in: Alumni, In The News, 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.
