Alumni reunion October 11

Hundreds of Auburn Engineering alumni met for the college's first homecoming reunion last year, making the event such a success it is being repeated this fall during the October 11 homecoming football weekend. To register for the weekend's activities, send in your registration now by filling out the form on page 15 in this issue of the newsletter. The staging point for the celebration is on the Aerospace Building/Harbert Engineering Center patio. We look forward to seeing you, your family and friends on campus again!

1000 graduates

WSFA television reporter Daphne Young interviews Minority Introduction to Engineering (MITE) graduate Robert Foster from Greenville, S.C., as his mother Jacqueline looks on. Robert, the program's 1,000th graduate, was one of 75 students enrolled in MITE this summer, marking its twentieth year of operation. In conjunction with the event, Engineering Dean William F. Walker announced the creation of three $1,000 scholarships to be awarded to MITE students who enroll in engineering at Auburn.

Wilmore shop moved

With the upcoming renovation of Wilmore Laboratories scheduled to begin soon, engineering shop facilities under the supervision of manager George Allen have been moved from Wilmore to the shop buildings adjacent to the L Building. The machine shop services both students and faculty, and is used for instruction as well as research. Shown with Allen are lab machinist Tim Martin, center, and electronics technician John Gardner, right.

Christine Curtis

Karen Sharpless

Dayne Aldridge

Excellence in Teaching

El-Halwagi, a member of the chemical engineering faculty since 1990, has won awards for excellence in teaching at both college and university level.

Michael McCartney

James Odom

William V. Muse

Engineering extensions's George Blanks heads the ELI program.

Research Awards

Four faculty members have been named as recipients of the College of Engineering's annual award for excellence in research. Christopher Roberts of the chemical engineering faculty, second from right, and Wayne Johnson of the electrical engineering faculty were named as the recipients of the junior research award; James Guin of the chemical engineering faculty, second from left, and Russell D. Meller of the industrial and systems engineering faculty (not pictured) were named as recipients of the senior research award. On hand to make the presentations was Brooks Moore, chairman of the Auburn Alumni Engineering Council's research committee.

Malcolm Crocker

J. David Irwin

Richard C. Jaeger

Formula racer

Students overcame some last-minute obstacles to finish 29th out of 90 teams in a collegiate car design competition at the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan. It was only the second year Auburn entered a car in the competition, which was sponsored by various car manufacturers, who used the event to interview students for prospective jobs. Auburn's team competed against top engineering schools such as Cornell, Georgia Tech, Mississippi State and Penn State.

Field trip!

Excited fifth-graders from Auburn's Drake elementary school were informed and entertained by Sushil Bhavnani of the mechanical engineering faculty, who explained to them how the solar car raced by Auburn students works. Bhavnani also pointed out that the Sol of Auburn is the first - and only - solar car registered in the state of Alabama.

Keith Hagler at work in the Cupola office.