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Libby Beddingfield was plenty motivated for a future career in medicine when she arrived at The University of Alabama four years ago. That wasn’t always the case.
Author: David Miller / Published: April 18, 2019 / Posted in: Chemical and Biological Engineering, Students, UA News / Features: Dr. Ryan Summers
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
Ben Fischer, University of Alabama: “We scratch build all of it. Some of us design. Like, I like to design my own frames, so we design it out. Get it…
Source: WBRE-NBC (Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania) / Published: April 14, 2019 / Posted in: Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, Events, In The News, Students
Joline Hartheimer is under no illusions about her “privileged” upbringing in Northern New Jersey. She says service has helped shape her personal and career goals.
Author: David Miller / Published: April 12, 2019 / Posted in: Chemical and Biological Engineering, Students, UA News / Features: Dr. Yonghyun (John) Kim
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
The University of Alabama Astrobotics team and a group of engineering senior design students partnered with the RISE Center, a school for infants and preschoolers with and without special needs on UA’s campus, to provide the children with a sensory cube to assist with in-class therapy.
Author: Associated Engineering Press / Published: April 1, 2019 / Posted in: Faculty and Staff, Outreach, Students, UA News / Features: Dr. Kenneth G. Ricks
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
A group of University of Alabama engineering students held a test balloon launch in November to prepare for an upcoming series of complex launches this spring. Project Fenrir is a…
Author: Gillian Castro / Published: March 26, 2019 / Posted in: Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Research, 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.
