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The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program has selected three University of Alabama students as Goldwater Scholars for 2019-2020.
Author: Richard LeComte / Published: April 26, 2019 / Posted in: Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, Awards and Honors, Research, Students, UA News / Features: Dr. Semih M. Olcmen
A University of Alabama College of Engineering research center has been invited to join a global initiative for the United Nations with a focus on sustainable development.
Author: Associated Engineering Press / Published: April 25, 2019 / Posted in: Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Faculty and Staff, Research, UA News / Features: Dr. Steven Jones
A trio of students formed Ortho Screws, a start-up company based on a sensor designed to alert patients and health providers if orthopedic screws are loosening.
Author: Adam Jones / Published: April 24, 2019 / Posted in: Chemical and Biological Engineering, Research, Students, UA News
Veteran Alabama TV meteorologist James Spann touched on a topic — and a nerve — during severe weather coverage over the weekend in Alabama … One of the people taking…
Source: AL.com / Published: April 20, 2019 / Posted in: Center for Advanced Public Safety, In The News, Research / Features: Dr. Laura Myers
How much untreated sewage gets dumped in Alabama’s Black Belt? That’s the question a team of students and professors at the University of Alabama is trying to determine. Sources: Tuscaloosa News, USA…
Source: The Tuscaloosa News / Published: April 15, 2019 / Posted in: Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Faculty and Staff, In The News, Research, Students / Features: Dr. Mark Elliott
Dr. Myers from the University of Alabama Center for Advanced Public Safety confirms the state has the most tornado death in the nation.
Source: ABC 33/40 (Birmingham) / Published: April 13, 2019 / Posted in: Center for Advanced Public Safety, Faculty and Staff, In The News, Research / Features: Dr. Laura Myers
How can internal combustion engines be made more eco-friendly? Colby Bain of West Plains hopes to help researchers at the University of Alabama (UA) find an answer to that question…
Source: West Plains Daily Quill (Missouri) / Published: April 11, 2019 / Posted in: Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, In The News, Research, Students / Features: Dr. Amy W. Lang, Dr. James Paul Hubner
With a grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency, researchers from environmental engineering and geology will build a model to quantify the extent of untreated raw sewage discharges from homes throughout five counties in the Black Belt, an economically depressed region in the state.
Author: Adam Jones / Published: April 9, 2019 / Posted in: Faculty and Staff, Research, Students, UA News / Features: Dr. Mark Elliott
Not long ago, moving objects with your mind was the province of Jedi knights and boy wizards. But on April 6, competitors and spectators will descend on the University of…
Source: Forbes / Published: April 6, 2019 / Posted in: Computer Science, Events, Faculty and Staff, In The News, Research, Students / Features: Dr. Chris S. Crawford
Researchers at the University of Alabama are testing whether tall, wood-framed buildings built with a hybrid technique that combines conventional construction materials and a newer material called cross-laminated timbers can…
Source: The Tuscaloosa News / Published: March 31, 2019 / Posted in: Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Faculty and Staff, In The News, Research, Students / Features: Dr. Sriram Aaleti, Dr. Thang N. Dao
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.
