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So the fall and winter are more active than many may think. However, warnings may get less attention then. “What we are finding in the research is that spring tornado warnings work well…
Source: AL.com / Published: February 26, 2018 / Posted in: Center for Advanced Public Safety, Faculty and Staff, In The News, Research / Features: Dr. Laura Myers
Four students on campus have come together to create an accessible combination of technology and sports to improve players’ softball and baseball game, originally thanks to the UA Emerging Scholars…
Source: Crimson White / Published: February 19, 2018 / Posted in: Awards and Honors, Computer Science, In The News, Outreach, Research, Students / Features: Dr. Jeff Gray
You’ve seen apps and toys that promise to teach your child to code. Now enter the robots. At the CES electronics show in January, coding robots came out in force. One…
Source: Associated Press / Published: February 14, 2018 / Posted in: Computer Science, Faculty and Staff, In The News, Outreach / Features: Dr. Jeff Gray
The University of Alabama has partnered with the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) to train UA students in precise timing and time interval technology, which is used in highly precise…
Source: Alabama News Center / Published: February 13, 2018 / Posted in: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty and Staff, In The News, Outreach, Students / Features: Dr. Andrew Lemmon
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
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
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 2011, Alabama was hit by a giant tornado- the largest tornado recorded in the U.S. terms of the amount of damage it caused. Thousands were displaced from their homes-…
Source: Daily Planet - Discovery / Published: January 10, 2018 / Posted in: Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Faculty and Staff, In The News, Outreach, Research, Students / Features: Dr. Wei Song
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.
