
Aerospace engineering students shine at AIAA Greater Huntsville Section awards ceremony
Dustin Duncan | 07/10/25
Two aerospace engineering students earned top honors at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Greater Huntsville Section’s annual awards banquet on May 20.

College launches novel internet tool designed to foster research collaboration across multiple disciplines
Joe McAdory | 07/03/25
AUSME is a searchable, artificial intelligence-powered tool that transforms how researchers discover one another, form collaborations and pursue complex, cross-disciplinary challenges.

Aerospace professor emeritus named AIAA 2025 Konrad Dannenberg Educator of the Year
Dustin Duncan | 06/26/25
Auburn University’s John E. Cochran Jr., professor and department head emeritus of aerospace engineering, has been named the 2025 Konrad Dannenberg Educator of the Year by the Greater Huntsville Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

Recipients named for Auburn’s 2025 Research and Creative Works Internal Awards
06/25/25
The Research Support Program and the Creative Work and Social Impact Scholarship Funding Program provide a competitive internal funding source to support faculty in refining projects before competing for larger, external awards.

Auburn Engineering team wins NASA's RASC-AL Competition
Dustin Duncan | 06/18/25
A team of aerospace engineering graduates took top honors in NASA’s 2025 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) Competition Forum, where undergraduate and graduate teams competed to develop new concepts for operating on the Moon, Mars and beyond.

Auburn University to offer space systems graduate certificate in fall 2025
Dustin Duncan | 06/16/25
Auburn University has established a new graduate certificate in space systems within the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, beginning fall 2025.

Aerospace engineering junior awarded Astronaut Scholarship
06/12/25
Junior Eirik Mulder earned the award which recognizes outstanding students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics who show exceptional academic performance, ingenuity and potential to make meaningful contributions to their fields.

Aerospace engineering students earn top honors at AIAA regional student conference
dzd0065@auburn.edu | 06/05/25
Auburn Engineering continued its streak of excellence at the 76th annual Southeastern Regional Student Conference of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), where three students brought home awards.

#GINNing Podcast: Pooling Resources
Jeremy D Henderson | 05/30/25
Aerospace engineering, breast-stroke swimming junior Olivia Dinehart recently sat down with the #GINNing gang to discuss how she stays afloat in Auburn's academic deep end.

#GINNing Podcast: To Air is Human
Jeremy D Henderson | 05/16/25
Assistant aerospace engineering professor and licensed pilot Nicoletta Fala is investigating the attitudes of altitude.

Auburn aerospace engineering students gain experience with flight simulator at Delta Training Center
Dustin Duncan | 05/02/25
Nearly 60 aerospace engineering students recently visited the Delta Aircrew Training Center at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport as part of a flight dynamics course.

Two engineer faculty honored as Outstanding Graduate Mentors
04/28/25
Russell Mailen, associate professor, and Vrishank Rahgav, associate professor, both in aerospace engineering were recognized as Outstanding Graduate Mentors

Two students receive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
04/24/25
Two Auburn students have won National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships (GRFP) for graduate study.

Aerospace engineering senior sweeps 2025 Sigma Gamma Tau undergraduate awards
Caitlyn Griffin | 04/22/25
Ayden Kemp, a senior in aerospace engineering and an honors student, swept the 2025 Sigma Gamma Tau (SGT) Undergraduate Awards, winning the South Central regional and the Harry H. Hilton national award.

Aerospace engineering students named finalist at NASA RASC-AL Competition
Caitlyn Griffin | 04/16/25
A team of Auburn aerospace engineers was named a finalist at the 2025 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition among 13 teams from other institutions.

Eight Auburn Engineering faculty members named to 2025 promotion, tenure list
Joe McAdory | 04/15/25
Auburn University Provost Vini Nathan announced the names of faculty awarded promotion and tenure for 2025.

Chemical engineering student wins Graduate Engineering Research Showcase with study on hydraulic redistribution
Joe McAdory | 04/08/25
More than 150 students participated in the 12th Graduate Engineering Research Showcase, held April 3 in the Brown-Kopel Center.

Auburn Engineering graduate programs earn high marks in recent U.S. News and World Report rankings
Joe McAdory | 04/08/25
U.S. News and World Report, which ranks graduate programs nationally each spring, designated Auburn Engineering No. 33 among public institutions when its annual list was released Tuesday, April 8.

Elementary school students learn basics of prototyping through Auburn Engineering egg drop
Austin Phillips | 04/02/25
More than 50 kindergartners through fifth-graders recently descended upon Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Stadium for this year’s egg Drop event, hosted by the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.

Auburn rocketry club brings hands-on fun to young patients at Children’s of Alabama
Dustin Duncan | 04/01/25
Returning to Children's of Alabama in Birmingham for the third consecutive year, the Auburn University Rocketry Association (AURA) arrived in their signature orange, blue and white floral-patterned shirts for a more interactive event with patients at the hospital.

Aerospace engineering doctoral student works to advance rotating detonation rocket engines
Dustin Duncan | 03/24/25
An aerospace engineering doctoral student is focused on improving wave dynamics in rotating detonation rocket engines (RDREs), a compact and high-efficiency propulsion system that could reduce the size, weight and cost of future launch vehicles in space.

#GINNing Podcast: There's Something About Mary
Jeremy D Henderson | 03/17/25
A word of advice to the Louisiana State University: Make your campus a little more walk-able, or continue losing out to the best student-centered — and pedestrian-centered — engineering education experience in America, like you did with aerospace engineering undergraduate researcher extraordinaire Mary Ferguson.

External NewFueled by curiosity: Auburn engineering student uses Makerspace to design, test jet engines
02/18/25
Brandon Barnett, a senior in aerospace engineering, used his skills and classroom knowledge to build a functional jet engine in the Makerspace on campus.

New Engineering Global Programs opportunity takes students to New Zealand
Dustin Duncan | 02/17/25
A new study abroad program through Engineering Global Programs will take Auburn Engineering students to the South Pacific, immersing them in the environmental landscapes of New Zealand.