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UA Student Team Selected for Space Antenna Contest    /  UA News

A team of engineering students at The University of Alabama is one of six selected as finalists in an international contest to design better antennas for small satellites, called CubeSats.


Author: Adam Jones    /    Published: March 28, 2017    /    Posted in:   Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, Awards and Honors, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Research, Students, UA News    /    Features:     

Don’t Shoot: UA Combines VR, Neuroscience in Police Training Research    /  UA News

University of Alabama researchers are using a novel approach to learn how police officers react to “shoot, don’t shoot” situations: measuring brain waves during virtual reality police training.


Author: David Miller    /    Published: March 27, 2017    /    Posted in:   Faculty and Staff, Mechanical Engineering, Research, UA News    /    Features:     

UA students create 3-D Shoe    /  WVUA

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   

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UA Students Highlight Research, Creativity during Annual Conference      /  UA News

More than 500 undergraduate students at The University of Alabama are highlighting their research and creative projects during the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference March 29-30.


Author: Chris Bryant    /    Published: March 22, 2017    /    Posted in:   Events, Research, Students, UA News   

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Ceremony to Celebrate Research by UA Faculty Rescheduled    /  UA News

Members of The University of Alabama faculty will be honored for their research contributions at the upcoming Faculty Research Day.


Author: Adam Jones    /    Published: March 21, 2017    /    Posted in:   Awards and Honors, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty and Staff, Mechanical Engineering, Research, UA News    /    Features:   , , ,   

UA Announces 2017 Premier Awards    /  UA News

The University of Alabama Division of Student Life has announced the recipients of the 2017 Premier Awards – the top individual honors for scholarship, leadership and service. The 2017 UA Premier Award recipients will be recognized at a dinner Thursday, March 23, as well as during Honors Week.


Author: Richard LeComte    /    Published: March 20, 2017    /    Posted in:   Awards and Honors, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Faculty and Staff, Research, Students, UA News    /    Features:     

UA Engineering students recreate 18th century sword    /  WVUA

A group of engineering students at The University of Alabama are recreating history. Students make the replica of a hilt of an 18th center British rapier in the engineering foundry….


Source: WVUA    /    Published: March 9, 2017    /    Posted in:   In The News, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Research, Students   

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UA Center for Advanced Public Safety to receive grant to evaluate seatbelt use    /  Fox 6 (Birmingham)

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   

UA Engineering Students Re-create History    /  UA News

A few University of Alabama engineering majors have spent the past five months researching and developing a plan to create a replica of an 18th century British Hanger rapier that has been part of UA Museums for the last half century.


Author: Kim Eaton    /    Published: March 3, 2017    /    Posted in:   Events, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Research, Students, UA News    /    Features:     

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Educational Studies’ Graduate Research Symposium Accepting Proposals    /  UA News

The 2017 ESPRMC Graduate Research Symposim will be held Thursday, April 13. As many as five $500 travel awards will be presented to the top graduate students this year.


Author: David Miller    /    Published: March 3, 2017    /    Posted in:   Research, Students, UA News   

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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.