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A group of engineering students at The University of Alabama modified a battery-powered ride-on car hoping to provide some freedom for a preschool student born with an abnormality that limits mobility.
Author: Adam Jones / Published: April 12, 2017 / Posted in: Computer Science, Events, Mechanical Engineering, Outreach, Students, UA News / Features: Dr. Keith A. Williams
James McDanal waited patiently in line Friday afternoon, ready to launch “The Captain” across the sky. “The Captain,” a water-propelled plastic rocket James had made in honor of Captain America,…
Source: The Tuscaloosa News / Published: April 10, 2017 / Posted in: Events, In The News, Outreach, Students
Sixty teams of elementary through high school students from across Alabama will program robots to navigate obstacles Saturday in a competition held at The University of Alabama.
Author: Alana Norris / Published: April 7, 2017 / Posted in: Computer Science, Events, Faculty and Staff, Outreach, Students, UA News / Features: Dr. Jeff Gray
University of Alabama Athletics and the College of Engineering celebrated a partnership with a bright future last week as new solar panels at the Sewell-Thomas baseball stadium went online. The…
Source: Alabama News Center / Published: April 6, 2017 / Posted in: Faculty and Staff, In The News, Outreach, Research, Students / Features: Allen McClendon
The University of Alabama hosted a workshop aimed to help administrators, staff and professors share and discover ways to engage students, particularly minority women, interested in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, fields.
Author: Adam Jones / Published: April 4, 2017 / Posted in: Events, Faculty and Staff, Outreach, UA News / Features: Dr. Kevin W. Whitaker
An unlikely collaboration between two University of Alabama colleges has resulted in an innovative, yet fashionable, way of displaying student work.
Author: Kim Eaton / Published: April 3, 2017 / Posted in: Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Outreach, Research, Students, UA News
A 3-D shoe made entirely out of shoeboxes is what a group of students at The University of Alabama are working on. Combining the technical and creative skills of two…
Source: WVUA / Published: March 24, 2017 / Posted in: Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, In The News, Outreach, Research, Students
Governor Robert Bentley wants to make Alabama roads safer. He is doing that by awarding about $140,000 in grants to evaluate new traffic safety data. That work is to be…
Source: Fox 6 (Birmingham) / Published: March 8, 2017 / Posted in: Awards and Honors, Center for Advanced Public Safety, In The News, Outreach, Research
Former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison addressed female students studying mathematics and engineering at the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa. The Decatur native was the first African American woman to…
Source: Alabama Public Radio / Published: March 8, 2017 / Posted in: Events, In The News, Outreach / Features: Dr. Viola L. Acoff
Career development, it is said, often isn’t about what you know but who you know. But in civil engineering, what you know matters. “We’re living in times that are changing at an accelerated rate,”…
Source: ASCE News / Published: February 23, 2017 / Posted in: Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Faculty and Staff, In The News, Outreach, Research / Features: Dr. Kenneth J. Fridley
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.
