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Hooks Selected as Summer 2024 Outstanding Co-op Student

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Christian Hooks, a senior majoring in civil engineering with a minor in structural engineering, was selected as the summer 2024 Outstanding Co-op Student by the Engineering Career…


Author: Natalie Bonner    /    Published: November 4, 2024    /    Posted in:   Awards and Honors, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Engineering, Students   

NASA Launches LunaRecycle Challenge; UA Serves as Allied Organization

NASA announced the launch of the LunaRecycle Challenge on Monday, Sept. 30, offering $3 million in prizes for innovations in recycling material waste on deep space missions with The University…


Author: Natalie Bonner    /    Published: October 2, 2024    /    Posted in:   Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering, Events, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Research   

Moradkhani Elected as 2024 AGU Fellow

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Dr. Hamid Moradkhani, Alton N. Scott professor of engineering in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering and director for the Center for Complex Hydrosystems Research,…


Author: Natalie Bonner    /    Published: September 18, 2024    /    Posted in:   Awards and Honors, Center for Complex Hydrosystems Research, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Engineering, Faculty and Staff   

Professor poses in laboratory.

Wang Recognized as Early Career Innovator and Selected to Join IGNIITE 2024 Program

Dr. Zhongyang Wang, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, was selected as an awardee of the Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy (IGNIITE) 2024 program….


Author: Natalie Bonner    /    Published: July 16, 2024    /    Posted in:   Chemical and Biological Engineering, Engineering, Faculty and Staff, Research   

College of Engineering Partners with Culverhouse to Host Ginni Rometty    /  Culverhouse College of Business

Culverhouse recently hosted Ginni Rometty for a Lowder Lecture focused on Rometty’s new book, Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World, published in March by the Harvard Business…


Source: Culverhouse College of Business    /    Published: April 27, 2023    /    Posted in:   Engineering   

Concrete Canoe    /  Engineering Special Story

The ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) National Concrete Canoe Competition (NCCC) challenges students to use a well-known and widely used material, concrete, for an innovative and unexpected purpose: to create a functional water vessel.


Source: Engineering Special Story    /    Published: April 3, 2023    /    Posted in:   Engineering, Students   

ariel view of Engineering Quad

UA Leading Effort For Stronger, Greener Concrete

Engineering researchers received $2.75 million in federal support to scale up a patent-pending innovation that uses carbon dioxide to strengthen concrete.


Author: Associated Engineering Press    /    Published: March 8, 2023    /    Posted in:   Engineering   

University of Alabama Program Uses Drones for Grand Mesa Snowpack Study    /  The Daily Sentinel

Tuan Luong hasn’t had a lot of experience with snow in his life, growing up in mostly tropical Vietnam before enrolling at the University of Alabama for its aerospace engineering and mechanics program. That’s changed in the past two years, however, because of his visits to Grand Mesa.


Source: The Daily Sentinel    /    Published: February 27, 2023    /    Posted in:   Engineering, In The News, Research, Students   

UA Engineering Alumnus Dr. Ifeanyi Okpala Named as One of 18 Under 31 Young Alumni

Dr. Ifeanyi Okpala’s path to and time at The University of Alabama is nothing short of remarkable.


Author: Brinkley Wood    /    Published: February 22, 2023    /    Posted in:   Awards and Honors, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Engineering   

ariel view of Engineering Quad

Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame to Induct 2023 Class

Six individuals and an engineering corporation will be honored during a ceremony Feb. 25.


Author: Associated Engineering Press    /    Published: February 20, 2023    /    Posted in:   Engineering   

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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.