Samuel Ginn College of Engineering

AU Awarded FCS LSI Subcontract

Auburn University's GPS and Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory (GAVLAB) has been awarded a subcontract from the Future Combat Systems Lead System Integrator (FCS LSI) in preparation of a FCS demonstration in 2007. This research is being performed as an Affiliate Member Project in the AU Center for Advanced Vehicle Electronics (CAVE). The demonstration will feature autonomous vehicle convoys (known as leader-follower or robotic convoy experiment) using GPS, INS, and other Autonomous Navigation Sensors (ANS). Read full story

AU Battery Charging Power Systems Interest Army and NASA

In today's high-tech military, a platoon of soldiers goes through nearly 650 AA-size batteries on any given five-day mission, and most are non-rechargeable throwaways.

In August, researchers in Auburn University's Space Research Institute (SRI), along with their industrial partner Radiance Technologies Inc., demonstrated a technology that may provide the military with a reliable system for supplying its soldiers in the field with more efficient and rechargeable batteries. Read full story

Biosystems Engineering Receives Equipment from Caterpillar

A high-speed disc saw felling head was recently donated to the Department of Biosystems Engineering by the Caterpillar Forest Products Group. The equipment will be used as a research tool on yield mapping systems for forest machines. The felling head is used on wheeled feller bunchers, the most common forest harvesting machines used around the world. Read full story

Engineering Faculty Awarded NSF Grant

Daniel Kim, assistant professor in materials engineering, was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support a research project involving piezoelectric thin films. Bart Prorok from materials engineering and Minseo Park from physics will also be involved with the project. Read full story

Professor Receives Air Force Grant

Prathima Agrawal, distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center, has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for her work on ultra-wide band (UWB) communication networks. Read full story