TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — University of Alabama alumni who work with NASA return to campus this week to discuss the Space Launch System Program. Two panels on engineering and communications will feature the chief engineer and the communication lead for the program. SLS, NASA’s new heavy-lift launch vehicle, is essential to America’s future in ...

When Ron Bailey lost his right leg below the knee 10 years ago after a head-on collision, he was fitted with a prosthetic leg and began learning to use it in his daily life as a real estate agent in Federal Way, Wash. For a couple of years after the amputation, ...

Engineering camp participants launch bottle rockets they designed during a camp activity. The College of Engineering will be hosting its first ever MESA/First Generation Engineering Camp. MESA, or Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement, is a nationwide college-preparation program that strives to increase the number of minority, low-income and first-generation college students. ...

The UW on Monday (July 15) welcomed Michael B. Bragg as dean of the College of Engineering. Bragg most recently was professor and interim dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. An aeronautical engineer by training, Bragg has held numerous leadership positions at Illinois, including head ...

BLACKSBURG, Va.,  – Michael L. Madigan, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, was recently named the Kevin P. Granata Faculty Fellow by the  Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. The Kevin P. Granata Fellowship was established in the Department of Engineering Science and ...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — After winning first place in last year’s NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition, a team of students called Alabama Lunabotics from The University of Alabama and Shelton State Community College will return to the competition May 20 at Kennedy Space Center. The team had to design a robot capable of navigating ...

MANHATTAN -- Kansas State University's College of Engineering is being named an American Concrete Institute "Excellent University" for its accomplishments in 2012. The university is one of just 16 to receive the institute's Award for University Student Activities. The honor recognizes universities that participated in institute-related activities. Contributions from its department ...

Wyoming firms have been chosen to provide architect/engineering services for a major upgrade of College of Engineering and Applied Sciences facilities at the University of Wyoming. The UW Board of Trustees today (Friday) authorized a contract with Malone Belton Abel P.C. of Laramie and GSG Architecture P.C. of Casper, in association ...

Gift supports student success and an endowed chair in College of Engineering Monte Ahuja, Ohio State alumnus and founder of Transtar Industries in Cleveland, has donated $3.5 million to The Ohio State University to support student success and create the Monte Ahuja Endowed Dean’s Chair, which will be used to move ...

Dr. Bharat Balasubramanian TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Dr. Bharat Balasubramanian, a professor and research center executive director in The University of Alabama College of Engineering, has been appointed to a prestigious post in the German scientific research community. Balasubramanian is chair of the Transport scientific advisory committee within the Helmholtz Association, an umbrella organization of ...

BOZEMAN - A fourth generation Montanan who chose academia over the grocery industry has published his first textbook. Paul Gannon's "Introduction to Energy, Environment and Sustainability" is now part of the core curriculum at Montana State University where Gannon is a faculty member in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. The ...

John Bardo used his formal inauguration as president of Wichita State University on Friday to describe “storm clouds” in Wichita’s future and outline his plans for moving the university and the regional economy forward. As other community leaders have said for years, “the vast bulk of our exports (from our region) ...