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WE MISS YOU! This photo of the Shelby Concourse was taken on what would have been the final week of spring semester classes. What normally is bustling with students was quiet. We look forward to seeing our campus full of students, faculty, staff, alumni, friends, prospective students and parents in the near future.

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College launches virtual tour amid pandemic

Professors, students and alumni collaborate on emergency ventilator

Providing PPE for those who need it most

Read more about the tour and other exciting happenings across the college.

CPAP machines turned ventilators may provide much needed relief in rural areas and developing countries.

Faculty and staff quickly 3D-printed, assembled and donated equipment and supplies to those on the front line.

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Faculty, staff and students quickly made the successful adjustment to remote classes and labs.

Auburn is positioned as a national leader in cyber, infrastructure, communications and elections security.

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I hope this message finds you well during these unprecedented times we’re experiencing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

While the campus and the way we operate has looked dramatically different these past few months, I want you all to know just how proud I am of our students, faculty and staff for charging ahead and finishing the semester strong, especially our graduating seniors. I am so proud of your accomplishments and resiliency, and I look forward to August when we can, hopefully, celebrate this milestone together.

On March 6, the Friday before Spring Break, we received a message from the provost’s office instructing all faculty members to be prepared to conduct at least one class remotely, if necessary, once students returned March 16. Of course, our students never returned to campus, but this preparation and lesson proved extremely valuable to our university and college.

As our faculty began to prepare for a transition to remote learning, our staff went into overdrive to prepare our students and faculty for this unique situation. Our network services staff quickly assembled all the resources our students and faculty would need to complete the semester remotely, including virtual access to computer labs, critical software programs, teaching equipment and much more. Our online and continuing education staff also proved to be a critical resource for our students and faculty, already having the experience and programs available to assist with remote learning. In conjunction with the Biggio Center, our faculty was armed with all the tools to take on this monumental task.

In addition, our student services staff had the daunting task of tutoring and advising our current students — while also recruiting our new generation of students — all from afar. And they did a wonderful job. Our current numbers show our projected enrollment for the fall semester to be on pace to match last year’s, and I couldn’t be more thrilled, especially with all the uncertainty in the air.

And while the past few months have been filled with extremely distressing news from across the nation and globe, our communications and marketing staff worked tirelessly to ensure that the great things happening in the college continued to be spread far and wide. Our efforts to design, build, test and mass produce devices to convert CPAP machines into emergency ventilators were reported on worldwide, even reaching as far as Africa where a group is ready to evaluate them for use. Moreover, stories of our faculty and staff producing and donating much needed personal protective equipment and conducting ongoing research to identify, track, fight and cure the disease could be found all over. Our staff even unveiled a virtual tour to take Auburn’s campus to our prospective students, and faculty candidates, while campus facilities are closed. And this magazine was produced with the staff working remotely. Amazing!

Indeed, it took a total team effort to face this challenge head-on, but the Auburn Family rallied together to make it happen. I couldn’t be more proud.

Our new normal may look different, for now, but our vision and mission remain the same: to be the best student-centered engineering experience in America!

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Four engineering faculty members receive NSF Early Career awards totaling more than $2 million

Virtual campus tour launches The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering launched a cutting-edge virtual tour during the spring semester that will allow prospective students and their parents to “visit” campus remotely.

Developed in partnership with YouVisit, the leading educational virtual tour platform, the interactive guided tour provides users immersive, 3D views inside the college’s main buildings, as well as information on its degree programs and research.

To take the tour, visit eng.auburn.edu/visit.

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FY 2019 banner year for research Auburn Engineering faculty brought in $59.6 million in externally sponsored research awards in fiscal year 2019. In addition, research expenditures have placed the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering in the top 10% of engineering institutions for the past 15 years, according to data from the American Society of Engineering Education.

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Four more Auburn Engineering faculty members have been selected for the prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program.

Majid Beidaghi, assistant professor of materials engineering, was awarded $544,586 to conduct fundamental research on advanced battery chemistries and components that have the potential for greater energy density and cycling performance.

Debswapna Bhattacharya, assistant professor of computer science and software engineering, will use a $557,340 award to develop novel computational and data-driven methods to substantially improve protein structure refinement, bringing protein models closer to biologically relevant experimental accuracy. He will also develop and publicly disseminate an open-access bioinformatics research infrastructure that will advance basic biological research.

Pengyu Chen, assistant professor in materials engineering, will use a $500,000 award to develop a nanomaterial imaging system that can measure and track in real-time chemical signals secreted by immune cells. This novel research into

Pengyu Chen, Majid Beidaghi, David Roueche and Debswapna Bhattacharya

how immune cells “talk” to each other will advance immune disease screening and diagnosis technologies.

David Roueche, assistant professor in civil engineering, will use his $573,297 award to investigate new methodologies that harness post-windstorm reconnaissance data in order to promote the resilience of buildings and communities and reduce future losses and other impacts. Current capabilities for analyzing this data are ill-suited for efficient discovery and application. Roueche’s project will develop a robust, theory-guided, statistical inference framework for learning from post-windstorm data that will transform the scale to understand and predict windstorm damage, specifically for lowrise buildings.

The Faculty Early Career Development Program supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.

research institutions in the country,” said Christopher B. Roberts, dean of engineering.

“Their outstanding research and scholarship are driving our college and university forward, and I am confident that their continued work will sustain us among the nation’s top engineering research institutions,” he added.

The college has five strategic research areas that form its research portfolio: advanced manufacturing and materials;

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Auburn Engineering brought in $59.6 million in research awards in fiscal year 2019.

cybersecurity and intelligent systems; energy and environment; infrastructure and transportation; and biomedical and health systems engineering.

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Auad named new associate dean in administrative restructuring Maria Auad, the W. Allen and Martha Reed Endowed Professor of chemical engineering, has been named to the new position of associate dean for graduate studies and faculty development for the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, according to an announcement by Christopher B. Roberts, dean of engineering.

As associate dean, Auad will be responsible for oversight and coordination of college-wide graduate academic matters and activities related to providing a superior educational experience for the college’s graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, both in on-

campus and online programs. Additional responsibilities will include oversight and coordination of activities and programs to support and provide for the professional development of the faculty.

“Dr. Auad brings exciting ideas for engaging our faculty and elevating our graduate students’ experience and the depth of our graduate offerings. She brings both experience and inspiration to the administration of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering,” Roberts said.

associate dean for academics since 2013, will rejoin the faculty of the Department of Chemical Engineering.

As part of an administrative restructuring, Jeff Fergus will transition from associate dean for assessment and graduate studies to the role of associate dean for undergraduate studies and program assessment. Steve Duke, the college’s

“In their respective roles, Dr. Fergus and Dr. Duke have each made a significant impact on the level of engineering education our college provides to students. We owe them a tremendous debt of gratitude,” Roberts said.

McCrary Institute director testifies to Senate committee Frank Cilluffo, director of Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security, testified in March before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.

The senate hearing was titled “Threats Posed by State-Owned and State Supported Enterprises to Public Transportation.”

Largest NIH grant in college’s history Pengyu Chen, assistant professor of materials engineering, received a $1.9 million National Institutes of Health grant, the largest NIH grant Auburn Engineering has ever received, to develop nextgeneration, rapid diagnostic tools for the health care industry.

Doctors need real-time data on the health and function of a patient’s immune system to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases. However, one of the main

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national significance, as the issue bears on U.S. national and economic security, which are inextricably intertwined,” said Cilluffo in the hearing.

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“The threats to public transportation posed by state-owned and statesupported enterprises is a matter of

He also told the committee, whose members include U.S. Sens. Richard Shelby and Doug Jones, both of Alabama, “let me speak plainly: The chief threat comes from China and certainly includes the sale and provision of railway cars to U.S. transit systems — but the threat also extends far beyond, to much more than the transportation sector alone.”

diagnostic tools in use today, the enzymelinked immunosorbent assay, must be sent to a lab and takes hours to days for results to return. By then, the dynamics of the immune system may have changed, leaving the clinician to make treatment decisions based on outdated information.

Chen is aiming to change that by developing optofluidic nanoplasmonic biosensors for rapid analysis of the immune system. The research study seeks to better understand and measure cytokines — tiny proteins vital to signaling between cells — for rapid diagnostics.

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“We are trying to provide real-time feedback of the immune system for personalized immunomodulatory therapies,” Chen said.

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Auburn Engineering honors student, faculty and alumni achievement The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering has announced its 2019-20 outstanding students, faculty and alumni, recognizing scholarship, leadership and a demonstrated commitment to the college.

This year’s awardees include 29 students, 19 faculty members and 10 outstanding alumni.

“These individuals represent the best of our college and we’re thankful for the support of our dedicated alumni, corporate partners and friends of Auburn Engineering for helping us to recognize these talented students, faculty and alumni,” said Christopher B. Roberts, dean of engineering.

Due to the cancellation of all university events until June 30 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the spring ceremony and reception celebrating the recipients has been postponed until Aug. 21 from 3-5 p.m.

This year’s winners are: Fred and Mary Lou Birdsong Study Abroad Scholarships • Katie Shadell, Civil Engineering • Mackenzie Pitts, Mechanical Engineering 100+ Women Strong Undergraduate Leadership Awards • Isabel Perry, Mechanical Engineering • Jennifer Matis, Mechanical Engineering 100+ Women Strong Graduate Leadership Awards • Haixin Peng, Biosystems Engineering • Ellyn Harges, Mechanical Engineering 100+ Women Strong Graduate Student Fellowship • Elizabeth Devore, Electrical and Computer Engineering • Bianca Williams, Chemical Engineering J. Alley Family Fellowship • Nicole Habbit, Chemical Engineering • Chidera Illoejesi, Civil Engineering

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Engineering Student Organization Awards • Auburn University Rocketry Association Auburn Alumni Engineering Council Award for Most Outstanding Engineering Student Organization • National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers, Auburn Alumni Engineering Council Award for Most Improved Engineering Student Organization Outstanding Student Awards • Katie Milbrandt, Aerospace Engineering • Peyton Goodling, Biosystems Engineering • David Drinnon, Chemical Engineering • Megan Foshee, Civil Engineering • Ryan McGill, Computer Engineering • Amy Cheng, Computer Science • Alex Kaylor, Electrical Engineering • Madison Evans, Industrial and Systems Engineering • Annie Custodio, Materials Engineering • Jennifer Matis, Mechanical Engineering • Turner Atwood, Software Engineering • Thomas Orrison, Wireless Engineering (Hardware) • Kun Wang, Wireless Engineering (Software) Samuel Ginn Outstanding Student Award • Jennifer Matis, Mechanical Engineering Jeff and Linda Stone Leadership Awards • Lexie Blakley, Mechanical Engineering • Annie Dorsey, Industrial and Systems Engineering

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• Joshua Ellis, Mechanical Engineering • Sumiaya Islam, Chemical Engineering Mark A. Spencer Creative Mentorship Award Student • Daniel Crifasi, Mechanical Engineering Faculty • Edmon Perkins, Mechanical Engineering Outstanding Faculty Awards • Russell W. Mailen, Aerospace Engineering • Jonathan Davis, Biosystems Engineering • Bill Josephson, Chemical Engineering • Robert W. Barnes, Civil Engineering • Dean Hendrix, Computer Science and Software Engineering • Thaddeus A. Roppel, Electrical and Computer Engineering • Gregory Purdy, Industrial and Systems Engineering • Jordan Roberts, Mechanical Engineering 100+ Women Strong Leadership in Diversity Faculty Award • Asha-Dee Celestine, Aerospace Engineering William F. Walker Teaching Award Merit • Sanjeev Baskiyar, Computer Science and Software Engineering • Mark Dougherty, Biosystems Engineering • Jordan Roberts, Mechanical Engineering Superior • Thaddeus Roppel, Electrical and Computer Engineering

HAPPENINGS Fred H. Pumphrey Teaching Award • Bill Josephson, Chemical Engineering Auburn Alumni Engineering Research Awards for Excellence Junior Awards • Pengyu Chen, Materials Engineering • Vrishank Raghav, Aerospace Engineering

Civil engineering assistant professor earns major NSF Award An assistant professor in the Auburn University Department of Civil Engineering has been recognized with a National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation Award worth more than $865,000.

Lauren Beckingham, who was also awarded an NSF Faculty Early CAREER Development Award in 2019, will serve as the principal investigator on the project, with the award supporting the acquisition of an X-ray Computed Nanotomography (nanoCT) system equipped with in-situ mechanical and thermal material testing that enables fundamental research in

Senior Awards • ZY Cheng, Materials Engineering • Elizabeth Lipke, Chemical Engineering Outstanding Alumni Awards • Ken Mattingly, Aerospace Engineering • John Rogers, Biosystems Engineering • Cari Parker, Chemical Engineering • Guy E. O’Connor, Civil Engineering

biological, geological and engineered materials.

This project will advance critical research in additive manufacturing, biomedical engineering, earth and environmental systems, energy and smart materials and sustainable, resilient infrastructure materials.

Co-principal investigators on the project include Maria Auad, the W. Allen and Martha Reed Professor of chemical engineering and director of the Center for Polymer and Advanced Composites; Allan David, the John W. Brown Associate Professor of chemical engineering; Nima Shamsaei, the Philpott-WestPoint Stevens Distinguished Associate Professor of mechanical engineering and director

Arnold named senior director of Auburn Engineering’s Office of Development Margaret Arnold has been named senior director of development for the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, according to an announcement by Christopher B. Roberts, dean of engineering.

Arnold, who previously served as director of development for the college, began her new appointment as senior director April 22. As senior director, Arnold is responsible for leading the college’s development and fundraising efforts, including managing, mentoring and coaching development officers and coordinators, implementing strategic stewardship and engagement plans, and

• Denise Raper, Computer Science and Software Engineering • J. David Irwin, Electrical and Computer Engineering • Deborah D. Flint, Industrial and Systems Engineering • Daniel A. Butts, Materials Engineering • C. Dan Kohlhaas, Mechanical Engineering • Daniel Murphree, Polymer and Fiber Engineering

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of the National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence; and Marta Miletić, former assistant professor of civil engineering.

The award will provide new research, outreach, teaching and training opportunities to students, faculty and staff at Auburn University and regional institutions.

eight years, I am confident she has the knowledge, talent, skills and experience to further elevate our college,” Roberts said.

“I know Margaret will do a spectacular job in advancing our vision for Auburn Engineering.”

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working with the dean to ensure that all of the college’s development and fundraising goals are met. Arnold will also continue to serve as a major gift fundraiser.

“I am delighted to have Margaret take the helm as senior director of development.

Having worked with her for more than

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Arnold joined the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering in 2012, serving as a development officer. She was promoted to assistant director of development in June of 2018 and to director in 2019.

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Cyber expert participates in panel discussions on the AI workforce Daniel Tauritz, associate professor in computer science and software engineering, offered insight into how higher education is helping develop an artificial intelligence-ready workforce during a panel discussion in Washington, D.C. Tauritz, chief cyber AI strategist for the Auburn Cyber Research Center, was one of four experts invited to discuss the challenges facing the AI workforce and how to build a solid foundation for those entering the field.

He highlighted how Auburn Engineering is customizing doctoral programs for employees in the Huntsville area defense community who want to advance their knowledge in the interconnected areas of AI, cyber and national security.

Tauritz also moderated a panel discussion on the “Use of AI for Cybersecurity” at the Intelligence National Security Alliance’s spring symposium in Arlington, Virginia.

The symposium, whose theme was “Building an AI Powered Intelligence Community,” featured a variety of keynotes and moderated discussions, providing insight on the nuances and applications of AI technology, including the fundamental tools and technologies, as well as AI’s role in research and development and workforce development.

Tauritz served as the moderator for the panel discussing how AI can be applied to defend against cyberattacks and fortify national security.

paramount that we focus as a nation on dominating the fields of AI and cybersecurity in order to field AI agents capable of defending against this threat, as well as employ AI to augment the capabilities of human defenders to identify high-consequence adversarial strategies and corresponding defenses.”

“One of the greatest threats to national security is that our adversaries may employ AI agents to attack us via cyberspace faster than human defenders can respond,” said Tauritz. “It is therefore

Tauritz joined the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering faculty in 2019 after 17 years on the faculty of the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

Auburn civil engineering team assists ALDOT with U.S. 231 landslide A team of Auburn University civil engineering graduate students and researchers gained real-world, hands-on experience to the benefit of a community south of Huntsville after a landslide closed a section of U.S. 231 on top of Brindlee Mountain.

The team was led by assistant professor Jack Montgomery, as they attempted to

Civil engineering assistant professor receives national award An Auburn University civil engineering assistant professor received the Fred Burggraf Award from the Transportation Research Board (TRB).

Jorge Rueda-Benavides shared the award with two of his master’s students — Keren Xu and Karthik Pakalapati.

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Department of Transportation (ALDOT).

Montgomery said his students volunteered to help because they knew how many people would be impacted by the road closure.

Auburn Engineering students and faculty assess landslide damage on U.S. 231 outside of Huntsville.

map the layers of rock below the road’s surface and identify what is causing the road to crack to assist the Alabama

“We were excited to be able to come down here, it’s a great opportunity for the students to be out on a major project and we’re just grateful to be able to come and help ALDOT get the information they need to get this road fixed as quickly as they can,” Montgomery said to WAAY31 of Huntsville.

The award recognizes excellence in transportation research by researchers 35 years of age or younger whose papers have been published under the sponsorship of any TRB Technical Activities Division Standing Group.

Their paper, titled “Development of a Hot Mix Asphalt Location Cost Index for the Alabama Department of Transportation,” was sponsored by the Auburn University Highway Research Center.

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From left, Karthik Pakalapati, Jorge Rueda-Benavides and Keren Xu.

HAPPENINGS leadership. The appointment is well deserved.”

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Moore named assistant dean of student services Janet Moore will be the new assistant dean for engineering student services for the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering effective July 1, according to an announcement by Christopher B. Roberts, dean of engineering.

As assistant dean, Moore will manage the operation of the Office of Student Services, continue to meet with students to interpret academic and university policy, and represents the Office of the Dean in student matters.

“Janet’s résumé speaks for itself,” Roberts said. “She continues to demonstrate a contagious enthusiasm for her work that has her staff equally excited about continuing to serve students under her

Moore began her career as an educator and psychometrist in K-12 education before transitioning to higher education.

Before arriving at Auburn, Moore was the director for academic support and tutoring services at Jacksonville State University, where she was the lead researcher of a $3.5 million grant that provided tutoring, cooperative learning labs, supplemental instruction and retention initiatives for the university.

In 2019, she was named the National Academic Advising Association’s Outstanding Academic Advising Administrator.

“It is such an honor and privilege to be selected for this position,” Moore said. “Assistant Dean Dr. Bob Karcher has set the bar for providing students with guidance and direction in a way that makes students and others feel truly cared for, and I hope to follow his example in continuing to further the mission of Engineering Student Services.”

Moore, who previously served as director of advising for the college, succeeds Karcher, who retires July 1.

AU honors mechanical professor with Provost Advising Award Sushil Bhavnani, the Henry M. Burt Jr. Endowed Professor and associate department chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was one of five professionals recognized by Auburn University for outstanding work at the eighth annual Provost Advising Awards luncheon. The Provost Advising Award is given to nominees who exemplify interpersonal and human relations skills, professional practices, documented success and documented advisor development.

“The annual Provost Advising Awards is an opportunity for the university to celebrate the academic advisors who go above

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and beyond to provide our students with the guidance they need to achieve their academic goals,” said Norman Godwin, associate provost for academic effectiveness.

Bhavnani received the Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, which is awarded to advisors who have less than 50% of their duties in academic advising.

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Aerospace researcher receives NIH Trailblazer Award Vrishank Raghav, assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, was recently awarded the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trailblazer R21 award for a project designed to help doctors identify and treat patients who have a particular lung disease known as Expiratory Central Airway Collapse (ECAC). The award recognizes early stage or early career investigators pursuing research programs that explore the intersection of the life sciences with engineering and the physical sciences.

The interdisciplinary project is a multiprincipal investigator collaboration between Raghav and Surya Bhatt, assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The project, titled “Deep Learning and Fluid Dynamics-Based Phenotyping of Expiratory Central Airway Collapse,” is a three-year, nearly $600,000 grant funded by the NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.

In patients with ECAC, the large airways in the lung collapse by more than 50% of the original area during exhalation.

Present in 5% of chronic smokers, ECAC is associated with substantial respiratory morbidity disproportionate to underlying lung disease. Raghav and Bhatt plan to use benchtop flow simulators and machine learning combined with medical imaging data to determine the effect of central airway collapse on overall airway resistance and its contribution to airflow obstruction relative to small airway resistance.

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HAPPENINGS platform capable of producing multifunctional nanoparticles on demand to fabricate durable hybrid structures and devices layer-by-layer.

From left, Nima Shamsaei and Masoud Mahjouri-Samani

Researchers receive NSF grant for interdisciplinary additive nanomanufacturing research Two Auburn Engineering faculty members have been awarded a $400,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to advance the science of additive nanomanufacturing of multifunctional materials and hybrid structures.

The project is led by Masoud MahjouriSamani, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Nima Shamsaei, director of Auburn University’s National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence (NCAME).

The grant will support research to develop an additive nanomanufacturing

Printing nano-scale multifunctional materials is challenging because of minimal source materials and inadequate fabrication systems.

“Today, additive manufacturing is mainly focused on metallic and structural components, which are not functional materials,” Mahjouri-Samani said. “What we proposed here is to combine our knowledge of additive manufacturing with a variety of multifunctional materials and, for the first time, create multifunctional devices that can be printed on any conformal surface. We are hoping this technique can revolutionize the way we are printing multifunctional and electronic devices.”

This project has the potential to benefit the U.S. economy through its applications in aerospace, energy, biomedical and the automotive industries by conducting research on the intersection of additive manufacturing and nanotechnology.

Department head emeritus named fellow of National Academy of Inventors David Irwin, emeritus head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

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Irwin was one of 168 prolific academic innovators from around the globe inducted into this year’s class of fellows.

The NAI fellows program recognizes academicians “who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society,” according to the NAI.

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In addition to his innovative research, Irwin is also author and co-author of numerous publications, papers, patents and presentations, including nine textbooks, some of which have been translated into foreign languages. One of the textbooks, “Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis,” is in the 12th edition and has been used nationally and internationally for 35 years.

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From left, Gerry Dozier and Hari Narayanan

Professors named to AI state commission As artificial intelligence and related technologies become more entrenched in our daily lives, in everything from personal finance to health care, two Auburn University researchers are helping the state of Alabama stay ahead of the curve.

Samuel Ginn College of Engineering professors Hari Narayanan and Gerry Dozier are lending their expertise as members of the Alabama Commission on Artificial Intelligence and Associated Technologies.

The commission, whose members were appointed by leaders in state government, is tasked with advising Gov. Kay Ivey and the legislature on AI technologies and making policy recommendations to best position the state to take advantage of these emerging technologies.

“Our hope is to provide a set of recommendations that will help the state of Alabama become a national leader in the area of AI,” said Dozier, the Charles D. McCrary Professor of computer science and software engineering. “I believe AI will affect everyone in some very exciting and positive ways. It’s important that we embrace it and be prepared.”

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HAPPENINGS professors Vrishank Raghav and Masatoshi Hirabayashi as well as Brian Thurow, the W. Allen and Martha Reed Professor and department chair.

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Researchers awarded NASA grant to aid in future moon landings Auburn University researchers recently received a grant from NASA through the organization’s Early Stage Innovations 2019 initiative for a project that aims to aid in future moon landings.

David Scarborough, assistant professor in aerospace engineering, serves as the principal investigator for a three-year, $538,789 grant, titled “Non-intrusive Approaches to Full-domain, Scaling-law Based Experimental Investigation of Crater Formation and Plume-surface Interaction Dynamics.” Scarborough is joined on this project by three coinvestigators from Auburn’s Department of Aerospace Engineering: assistant

“In the next decade, NASA is prioritizing returning humans safely to the moon, deploying scientific instruments on a variety of extraterrestrial bodies and ultimately enabling human exploration of Mars,” Scarborough said. “One of the most significant obstacles to achieving these objectives is our limited understanding of plume-surface interactions leading to crater evolution and lunar dust formation during descent and touch-down.”

The multi-disciplinary research team includes experts in propulsion, fluid mechanics, optical diagnostics and planetary science. The three-year project centers on improving scientific understanding of plume-surface interactions, including the 3D crater evolution process and particle-jet interactions, caused by the interaction of rocket exhaust plumes with the planetary surface, under sub-atmospheric conditions using a multi-pronged nonintrusive diagnostic approach.

Auburn team wins asphalt mix design competition Auburn Engineering students Mo Fortunatus, David Vivanco, Danny Martinez, Zachary Pace and Madison Eason have won the CRH Asphalt Mix Design Competition. Sponsored by CRH Americas Materials Inc., the students competed against eight university teams to produce the best asphalt mixture for a specified job.

Mo Fortunatus, David Vivanco, Danny Martinez, Zachary Pace and Madison Eason

The teams were charged with using local materials to design a mix with a minimum recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) binder ratio of 0.25 to meet performance test criteria at the lowest cost. Scoring was based on a pre-qualification submittal, mix trials submittal, technical report and presentation. Auburn’s team received 92.7 out of 100 possible points.

Auburn’s team was advised by Randy West, NCAT director and research professor. “I am thrilled for the Auburn team,” West said. “They figured out on their own what they needed to do and went to work.”

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Auburn Engineering ranks 23rd in U.S. News online program rankings The Auburn University Samuel Ginn College of Engineering has again earned national accolades, ranking No. 23 in U.S. News and World Report’s 2020 Best Online Engineering Programs.

This is the fourth consecutive year that Auburn Engineering Online has ranked in the top 25.

In addition, five individual Auburn Engineering programs were highlighted within the online engineering specialty rankings, which are new this year and based on responses to the peer assessment survey administered to highranking academic officials at engineering schools with online programs. Civil and industrial engineering are both ranked No. 4 in their respective programs; electrical and mechanical, both No. 7; and engineering management, No. 11.

“The new specialty rankings show that Auburn Engineering programs are highly regarded in the eyes of our peers, which is one of the most valuable indications of the quality and growth of our programs,” said Christopher B. Roberts, dean of engineering. “We are continually working to meet our students’ needs and improve every aspect of Auburn Engineering Online.”

Auburn Engineering Online continues to expand its offerings, with 12 master’s degrees, a new bachelor’s degree in computer science and eight graduate certificate programs that are entirely online.

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Department chair recognized with service award from IEEE society Mark Nelms, professor and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was recognized with the IEEE Industry Application Society’s Distinguished Service Award at the society’s 2019 annual meeting.

The award recognizes an individual for exceptional dedication and service to the society. Nelms, an active volunteer in the society since 1990, has served IAS in various leadership positions and been a key organizer for dozens of conferences.

“Throughout his career, Mark has been a loyal servant to not only Auburn University, but also professional organizations such as the IEEE Industry Application Society and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association,” said Christopher B. Roberts, dean of engineering. “His work has done so much to drive Auburn Engineering and the electrical and computer engineering discipline forward. We are proud to call him an Auburn engineer.”

An Auburn Engineering faculty member since 1987, Nelms has served as chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 2009. He was elected a fellow of IEEE in 2004.

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Professor honored with teaching award from electronics society Sa’d Hamasha, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering, has received the 2019 Michael V. Carano Teacher Excellence Award from IPC, a trade association that connects the electronics industries.

Given once a year to an educator who makes outstanding contributions to electronics educational programs, the award recognizes Hamasha’s educational endeavors to enrich the lives of students.

Hamasha was nominated by his students, and he cites his enjoyment working with them and preparing them for fulfilling careers.

“I’m greatly honored to receive the Michael V. Carano Teacher Excellence Award,” Hamasha said. “It has been fun working with my graduate students, preparing them to be pioneers in the electronics manufacturing industry.

With the help of my students, we have published over 70 papers in the electronics manufacturing field. I am so proud of what we have achieved, and this IPC award will keep me motivated in preparing more students for electronics manufacturing careers.”

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Workplace safety and ergonomics research training programs reaccredited Two research training programs associated with the Center for Occupational Safety, Ergonomics and Injury Prevention at Auburn University have been reaccredited for another six-year term. The programs are “Occupational Safety and Ergonomics” and “Occupational Injury Prevention,” and both are sponsored by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The Center for Occupational Safety, Ergonomics and Injury Prevention is housed within the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE).

The programs earned reaccreditation from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), an interdisciplinary nonprofit organization devoted to the disciplines of human factors and ergonomics. ISE faculty submitted a portfolio describing the curriculum for each program to HFES, along with information on practical experience within the program. The portfolio was reviewed and approved by the HFES Accreditation Committee.

The following ISE faculty members and staff were involved in the reaccreditation process: Jerry Davis, Sean Gallagher, Mark Schall, Richard Sesek, John Evans, LuAnn Carpenter, Richard Garnett and Robert Thomas.

HAPPENINGS

College wins 10 awards for excellence in communications and marketing The Auburn University Samuel Ginn College of Engineering recently won 10 awards for superior communications and marketing initiatives in support of the college.

• Gold Award, Alumni Website or Microsite: Auburn Engineering alumni website • Silver Award, Recruitment Video: 100+ Women Strong recruiting video • Silver Award, Online Innovation/ Experimentation: #GINNing podcast • Bronze Award, Specialty Piece: Career Development and Corporate Relations industry banner stands

The Office of Engineering Communications and Marketing won four awards in the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, or CASE, District III awards program and six awards in the Education Digital Marketing Awards.

The college also won six Gold Awards in the Education Digital Marketing Awards, sponsored by the Higher Education Marketing Report, in the following categories:

Auburn Engineering won four awards from CASE District III in the following categories:

• Digital Video: Biomechanics in the Arts video • Institutional Directory: Auburn

Engineering online directory • Development Website: Auburn Engineering giving website • Online Publication: Auburn Engineering e-magazine • Admissions Website: Auburn Engineering recruiting website • Institutional Website: Auburn Engineering website

Mechanical professor pens novel about quantum entanglement

book. Some of the things they might be able to do with it are just fascinating.”

It has physicists talking about teleportation with a straight face, and mild-mannered Auburn University tribologists writing post-apocalyptic literary fiction.

And, at least in the world of “Ages of Entanglement,” cataclysmic.

In the novel, Jackson plays off the unintended consequences of harnessing the phenomenon, e.g. the decimation of the human population and the end of existence as we know it.

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Such is the power of quantum entanglement, one of science’s most confusing, yet exciting concepts.

“They call it ‘spooky science,’” said Rob Jackson, professor of mechanical engineering. “There’s not really a good explanation for it — for how something can instantaneously affect something else even though they’re far distances apart.

It’s happening faster than the speed of light. How can that happen?”

For his recently released first novel “Ages of Entanglement,” Jackson, who was recently named a fellow of the prestigious Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers in 2019, didn’t need answers, just possibilities.

“The book uses quantum entanglement as a plot mechanism,” he said. “It’s an illogical bit of science that’s true, and I thought it might make for an interesting

Three students receive scholarships from electronics society

From left, Mohammed Abueed, Sa’d Hamasha, Mohamed El Amine Belhadi and Xin Wei

Three Auburn Engineering doctoral students were awarded scholarships from the IPC Education Foundation for demonstrating exceptional knowledge and experience in the manufacturing industry.

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But, hey — what piece of post-apocalyptic fiction worth reading doesn’t?

The novel is available for purchase on Amazon.

Listen to our podcasts with Rob Jackson at eng.auburn.edu/ginning

Industrial and systems engineering doctoral students Mohamed El Amine Belhadi, president of the IPC Chapter at Auburn University, Mohammed Abueed and Xin Wei will each receive $1,000 scholarships from the IPC. The organization awarded scholarships to students from 17 schools nationwide.

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RAPID RESPONSE Auburn engineers have faced the COVID-19 pandemic head-on. Our students, faculty, staff and alumni have developed emergency ventilators, 3D-printed PPE equipment and donated such items to health facilities, worked on testing and detection and more, all while transitioning to a remote learning environment.

These Auburn engineers embody “a spirit that is not afraid.�

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Huntsville-based IS4S, an integrated systems solutions company and defense contractor that frequently partners with the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, assembled 100 RE-InVENT units in just three days in mid-April.

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was March 22. Chris Spiker didn’t have to guess which garage was Michael Zabala’s.

On a normal Sunday afternoon, he might have thought he was looking at someone gearing up to mow the lawn.

But during a pandemic? The guy in the medical mask bent over a work table covered in wires and tubes was a dead giveaway.

Spiker was finally heading home from his ICU shift at East Alabama Medical Center. He lived in Zabala’s neighborhood, so Glenn Wood, an anesthesiologist at the hospital consulting with Zabala on the REInVENT project, had asked him to go check it out — to make sure he wasn’t seeing things in the video Zabala had just texted.

Spiker parked on the street. He was still in scrubs. He introduced himself.

No one shook hands. Tom Burch, a senior lecturer in Auburn’s Department

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of Mechanical Engineering, kept his distance, a bottle of sanitizer dangling from his belt. He’s in his 60s. Zabala, an assistant mechanical engineering professor is only in his mid-30s, but he’d been just as cautious as Burch.

He’s taught on the biomechanics of respiration in his Auburn University Biomechanical Engineering (AUBE) lab.

He knows how lungs work. He was learning how the virus worked.

Click. It deflated. Click. Inflated, deflated.

Click, click, click, click.

Zabala got to it. He rattled off the Cliff’s Notes from the weekend, about the team’s desire to help mitigate any potential respiratory treatment equipment shortages in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis, about Burch’s suggestion to incorporate a CPAP machine, about the parts needed, about meeting Wood at Texaco that morning to grab some tubing and the test lung. Then it was time.

“Does it have adjustable pressure settings?” Spiker said.

Burch flipped the switch. Click. The test lung inflated.

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It had rained that morning. The sun was finally out. The subdivision was just coming to life. Moms pushing strollers looked over. Dads on golf carts stared.

So did Spiker.

Click, click.

“Up to 5-25 centimeters,” Burch said.

Click, click.

“OK, it maybe needs to be about five at minimum, because that’s the baseline to overcome the tube that’s in their mouth. And you can adjust the rate, too?”

“Oh, yeah,” Zabala said.

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During an April 3 test at Auburn’s College of Veterinary Medicine’s Vaughan Large Animal Teaching Hospital, the RE-InVENT kept a 200-pound goat perfectly ventilated.

Click, click. Click, click.

“Well, guys,” Spiker said, “I think you just created your own pressurecontrolled ventilator.”

Unforgettable Zabala, Burch and the other Auburn engineers behind the RE-InVENT will never forget it.

“We had gone from concept to a successful test on a test lung in just two days,” Zabala, a 2007 Auburn mechanical engineering graduate, said of the device, which effectively converts a CPAP machine into a safe, emergency alternative to conventional ventilators.

“But it was still just awesome to see it perform so well on the real thing.”

Burch, who earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Auburn in 1979 and 1982 respectively, agreed.

“We were pretty sure it would work,” said Burch, who first proposed incorporating continuous positive airway pressure to simulate a ventilator. “I use a CPAP machine, and it does 90% of what a ventilator does.”

The team focused on a design that would reliably ventilate a patient for an extended period, while also considering affordability and ease of manufacture.

“It was almost like something out of ‘MacGyver,’ or like that scene in ‘Apollo 13.’” said electrical engineering professor and RE-InVENT team member Mike Hamilton when he first learned of Zabala’s and Burch’s early efforts.

Thanks to control systems improvements from Hamilton, as well as computer-aided modeling assistance from team member and mechanical engineering lecturer Joe Ragan, the device can be assembled in as little

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as four hours using approximately $700 in readily available component parts in addition to a standard CPAP machine.

Standard hospital ventilators can cost up to $25,000.

Easily one of Auburn University’s most ingenious contributions to the fight against COVID-19, the device had performed flawlessly in early benchtop testing, starting with the proof of concept experiment in Zabala’s garage.

But the April 3 test at Auburn’s College of Veterinary Medicine’s Vaughan Large Animal Teaching Hospital would determine whether the RE-InVENT would move from prototype into production.

That the machine kept a 200-pound goat with a lung capacity similar to that of humans properly ventilated for two hours validated its design in ways that even surprised Wood, who monitored the procedure via Zoom along with other anesthesiologists, including an

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An engineer with Huntsville-based IS4S helps assemble a RE-InVENT unit developed by a team within the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.

Parts from a RE-InVENT device, which effectively converts a CPAP machine into a safe, emergency alternative to conventional ventilators.

associate professor of anesthesiology in Auburn’s College of Veterinary Medicine.

began production on the RE-InVENT, assembling 100 units in just three days in mid April.

“It performed perfectly,” Wood said. “It went better than I expected in being able to ventilate the animal.”

“IS4S was tracking on the RE-InVENT project from the earliest days, and we knew that the need for these devices was urgent and pressing,” said Ryan Hill, an IS4S research engineer who earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Auburn in mechanical engineering in 2008 and 2011, respectively.

A subsequent successful live animal test, this time on a sheep, proved just as promising. After that, it didn’t take long.

Huntsville-based IS4S, an integrated systems solutions company and defense contractor that frequently partners with the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, quickly

Listen to our podcasts with Tom Burch and Ryan Hill at eng.auburn.edu/ginning

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Hill played an active role on the REInVENT team, helping refine hardware design for its second and third iterations.

“While many companies across the country are building ventilators, we thought few could assemble and produce the needed devices in under a week,” Hill said. “Once the successful animal test was completed, IS4S

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immediately began taking the steps to fabricate the units for distribution.”

IS4S has fielded requests for the innovative accessory from across the country and as far away as India.

“We have several rural hospitals asking when we can send them devices,” said Glenn Rolander, IS4S president and CEO. “There’s also been a strong international demand from multiple medical agencies that contact us almost daily.”

While the RE-InVENT awaits Emergency Use Authorization approval from the FDA that would allow distribution of the device to health care professionals in rural areas, IS4S is endeavoring to provide units to Family Legacy Missions, a medical ministry serving vulnerable children in Zambia that expects its number of COVID-19 cases to rise over the summer.

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Huntsville-based IS4S recently assembled 100 RE-InVENT units to help meet a strong international demand for the device, which converts CPAP machines into emergency ventilators.

“These are difficult times,” Burch said.

“Everybody who understands the gravity of the situation wants to do something to help, so it feels good to think you’ve helped with something that may have an impact.”

Burch’s former student agrees with him.

“Wait, did I have you in a class?” Burch said to Zabala minutes after the REInVENT’s first successful test in Zabala’s garage. .

Zabala nodded and smiled.

“Got an A.”

Assisting regional health facilities The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering donated vital personal protective equipment (PPE) and supplies to East Alabama Medical

Center (EAMC) in Opelika and to health facilities in Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia and Kentucky to aid in the effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). The donations include 10 gallons of hand sanitizer mixed by the Department of Chemical Engineering and 3D-printed protective face shields.

In total, the supplies donated to EAMC include: • 426 pairs of eye protection (goggles, safety glasses and face shields) • 1,719 respirators (N95, N99, N100, R95 and surgical masks) • 275 boxes of hand protection (nitrile gloves and latex gloves) • 312 pieces of body protection (disposable lab coats and coveralls) • Five 60-ounce bottles of hand sanitizer • 10 gallons of hand sanitizer mixed in the lab • 400 3D-printed face shields

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An Auburn University team of volunteers can 3D print parts for 150 face shields per day.

“The Auburn Engineering family is working in close partnership with East Alabama Medical Center and the Auburn University Medical Clinic to help leverage our capabilities and expertise in whatever ways we can to help during this time of crisis,” said Steve Taylor, associate dean for research in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.

Donations of PPE supplies of all sizes were made by faculty and staff from across campus, including from the College of Agriculture, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences and the College of Architecture, Design and Construction.

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Emmanuel Winful and Christian Brodbeck collected personal protective equipment such as gloves, lab coats and face masks to donate to East Alabama Medical Center.

“We had faculty who were able to give an overwhelming amount of supplies, and that is amazing, but we’ve also had some who have only had two or three items available to give, and that’s great too,” said Christian Brodbeck, research engineer and a co-organizer of the collection efforts. “No matter the size of the individual donations, we can make a huge difference when we pull our resources together.”

Emmanuel Winful, engineering safety manager who also coordinated the collection efforts, worked with chemical engineering faculty member Bill Josephson and staff member Brian Schwieker to prepare two formulations of hand sanitizer for the hospital following guidelines developed by the World Health Organization – an absolute ethanol formulation and an isopropyl alcohol formulation.

“I think this partnership has allowed the College of Engineering to identify the needs facing the hospital during this public health emergency and leverage the resources and expertise within the

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USA Children’s & Women’s Hospital employees with donated 3D-printed face shield and associated parts.

college to support the best way we can in addressing the crisis,” Winful said.

Leveraging a network of on-campus 3D printers, a multidisciplinary group of volunteers from engineering, the College of Agriculture and the College of Architecture, Design and Construction have also been able to 3D-print face shields. In just a few short days, 400 shields were printed, assembled and delivered to EAMC and the team has continued to print face shields to assist 16 regional health

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facilities across several southern states.

In addition, the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering has started a collaborative effort with the University of South Alabama (USA) College of Engineering to print PPE that will be directed to the USA Children’s and Women’s Hospital, located in Mobile. The college was also able to provide face shields for medical staff at the Alabama Department of Corrections.

To date, the team of volunteers from Auburn Engineering and others across

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Doctoral candidate Richard Cullum and his colleagues at Assurance Scientific Labs developed a COVID-19 test in less than two weeks.

campus has printed more than 2,000 face shields and 500 mask strap holders.

“This is a tangible way that we can assist the greater community. Kudos to our faculty and staff for making this happen,” said Taylor.

Chemical engineering doctoral candidate contributes to COVID-19 test As COVID-19 spreads throughout the United States and Alabama, scientists on the research and development team at Assurance Scientific Labs in Birmingham have devoted their undivided attention to developing a reliable test for the virus as quickly as possible.

Richard Cullum, a doctoral candidate in chemical engineering, is a member of the R&D team that brought a COVID-19 test from development to clinic in less than two weeks.

“Our COVID-19 test uses real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) to detect SARS-

CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in upper and lower respiratory specimens,” Cullum said. “My desire to create products that improve public health was a strong motivator for pursuing a Ph.D. Seeing the impact of the COVID-19 test I helped develop has been extremely rewarding, especially so early in my career.”

The Assurance lab has produced thousands of tests so far and the production team continues to manufacture them to meet growing public demand. Due to the laboratory’s Emergency Use Authorization agreement with the Food and Drug Administration, all specimen testing must be performed in Assurance’s inhouse reference lab.

So far, their clinical lab has tested more than 8,000 specimens from across Alabama and several other states.

Cullum credits his chemical engineering education with helping him develop a unique set of problem-solving skills to allow him to design and develop accurate and reproducible tests for pathogen detection.

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“As a chemical engineering student, you learn to approach and solve problems at the reaction and process level,” he said. “The process development skills I learned enable me to optimally configure diagnostic tests for maximum throughput when implemented in clinical workflows.”

In his graduate work at Auburn, Cullum is co-advised by Allan David, the John Wilford Brown Associate Professor in chemical engineering, and David Riese, the Gilliland Professor in the Department of Drug Discovery and Development in the Harrison School of Pharmacy.

“The interdisciplinary nature of his co-advised doctoral project has equipped him with a combination of skills from both chemical engineering and pharmacy that allows for a unique perspective on how to address these types of problems,” said Mario Eden, professor and Joe T. and Billie Carole McMillan chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering.

Cullum’s dissertation focused on melanoma drug discovery, specifically

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The graphic illustrates a biosensor designed by Pengyu Chen, assistant professor of materials engineering, that will rapidly detect COVID-19.

using in silico approaches to analyze a clinical melanoma genomic data set.

Through his research, he identified “a gene of interest that is likely to contribute to the tumorigenesis of a signification portion of melanomas that do not currently have a targeted therapy option,” he said.

Another phase of Cullum’s dissertation project required him to design and implement tests of thousands of drugs for those that might be effective against metastatic melanoma.

“Through this project, he developed superb process and assay development skills,” Riese said.

“These skills, combined with the outstanding foundational and practical education in chemical engineering obtained here at Auburn, enabled him to quickly and effectively develop the COVID-19 test at Assurance,” he said.

Investigating rapid detection device Two Auburn Engineering assistant professors have received a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a biosensor that will rapidly detect COVID-19.

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COVID-19 belongs to a family of similar viruses known as beta coronaviruses.

There have been two other such viruses that have emerged over the past two decades — Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome, commonly referred to as SARS. “There are similarities between the viruses that cause MERS, SARS and COVID-19 to the point where the name of the current virus is SARSCoV-2,” said Robert Pantazes, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the principal investigator on the project. “What we’re doing is using computational tools and experimental methods to try to take advantage of all the resources that were already in existence for these other coronaviruses and convert them into tools that will work with COVID-19 and potential future coronavirus outbreaks.”

The research project, titled “AntibodyBased Nanoplasmonic Barcode Biosensors for COVID-19 Detection,” is led by Pantazes in collaboration with Pengyu Chen, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Jennifer Maynard, the Henry Beckman Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas.

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Specifically, the team of researchers are developing an inexpensive, near-realtime, point-of-care diagnostic device that would meet the need to more quickly and more conveniently diagnose COVID-19 and understand its spread.

“My lab has a long history in developing nanomaterial-based biosensors for immune detection,” said Chen, a co-investigator on the project.

“This biosensor design originated from a multiplex barcode sensor for high throughput sensitive cytokine measurements in human serum samples and can be further applied to saliva and throat swabs.”

The team plans to screen and select optimized antibodies that can target the spike protein on the surface membrane of the virus.

They will then immobilize the selected antibodies on glass substrates to capture the virus.

“We will flow in signaling nanoparticles functionalized with detection antibodies that can attach to the captured virus to form a so-called ‘sandwich’ structure,” Chen said. “These nanoparticles can emit strong scattering light with specific color and can be visualized under microscope or even by human

F E AT U R E eyes. So if we have a positive response, we will observe a brightened barcode or colored test strip.”

The team is progressing toward a proof-of-concept device that can be used for lab testing to be followed by a prototype of an integrated test strip that could be potentially used at home or in clinics.

“The academic research community is working rapidly to reduce the impact that this pandemic has on our daily way of life,” Pantazes said.

Evaluating public response Widespread shelter-in-place orders have been issued by government and public health officials across the United States due to the coronavirus pandemic. The effectiveness of these orders at slowing the spread of the virus is still being evaluated and largely depends on how the public responds to them.

Two faculty members in Auburn’s Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering were awarded a $145,000 National Science Foundation grant to evaluate the public’s compliance with recent public health orders by looking at social media behavior. They will use this data to create a simulation to help policymakers improve mitigation strategies in the future.

The research project, titled “Quantifying Social Media Data for Improved Modeling of Mitigation Strategies for the COVID-19 Pandemic,” is led by assistant professor Konstantinos Mykoniatis and Alice Smith, the Joe W. Forehand/Accenture Professor. The two are collaborating with Anastasia Angelopoulou, assistant professor of computer science at Columbus State University, to collect social media data, analyze the data to identify patterns and build a simulation model to evaluate the effectiveness of different mitigation strategies.

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“The majority of mitigation strategies and policies are based on assumptions and how well a model can predict a specific situation depends on those assumptions,” said Mykoniatis, the principal investigator on the project.

“Most of these models have very oversimplified assumptions — namely that all people will follow a specific engagement strategy or public health order. We thought that by studying the human behavior exhibited on social media, we could get a more accurate representation of how willing people are to follow these strategies and comply with these orders.”

By collecting social media posts related to certain keywords such as “COVID-19,” “coronavirus” or “pandemic,” the researchers aim to group the data by like characteristics including demographics and geographic location. Understanding correlations between an individual’s identifying characteristics and the degree to which like-minded people comply or resist shelter-in-place orders can help policymakers shape messaging to counteract potential resistance.

“We’re going to concentrate on Twitter to try to build relationships about different clusters of people and their reactions to public health recommendations that might lead

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them to a certain degree of compliance or active resistance,” said Smith, the project’s co-principal investigator.

“We’re going to see what we can find out about the differences that can be used in models to ascertain the relative success or failure (noncompliance) of certain mitigations that could be proposed and understand for a given grouping of people or community of people that certain strategies are going to be preferred over others and why.”

The team will also be evaluating the role that rumors or false information about the coronavirus pandemic has played in determining the effects of compliance behavior.

Once the raw data is collected, Smith will analyze and cluster the data using unsupervised machine learning techniques. Mykoniatis will then use the findings to build a hybrid dynamic simulation model that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of future messaging campaigns. The results will be made available to the public at the end of the project.

“With this simulation approach, we’re considering how these groups of likeminded individuals behave and react to certain strategies and how likely they are to follow these types of orders going forward,” he said.

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Many engineering instructors conducted Zoom meetings with their students to communicate one-on-one during the remote instruction period.

Remote instruction In early March, Spring Break at Auburn was overshadowed by an evolving series of messages from administration regarding the university’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and by March 20, students and faculty learned that all courses would be continued remotely through the end of the spring semester.

For the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, the largest college at Auburn, more than 800 courses in eight departments would be moved completely online. The president’s office later announced Summer 2020 Sessions 1 and 2 would also be held remotely.

“The positive way in which our faculty, staff and students have responded to this alternate instruction model truly demonstrates the character of the Auburn Family,” said Christopher B. Roberts, dean of engineering.

“Our Engineering Network Services, Engineering Online staff and the Biggio

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Center, in particular, were integral parts of this massive process, wasting no time in developing tools and resources to ensure the smoothest possible transition.”

For Shannon Price, director of Engineering Network Services, the largest hurdle has been ensuring students have access to the necessary software to complete their assignments. Students traditionally access a variety of technical software in the computer labs on campus – no longer an option – and students’ personal computers often won’t support that software.

ENS responded by purchasing new software that provides remote students with a virtual gateway to computers in the on-campus labs and even steers them to specific machines based on the software they need.

The college also purchased MATLAB for all students; MATLAB is the primary technical computing software used in engineering courses.

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Price said ENS has also spent a lot of time getting instructors the equipment they need to teach from home, including desktop monitors, web cameras and even small document cameras so some can continue to draw out formulas and technical illustrations in real time for students.

“The instructors use a variety of different methods to teach, so it was important to get them the equipment they need to teach how they are most comfortable,” he said.

Many online resources such as Canvas, the university’s learning management system, were already available to faculty and students and helped ease the move to online instruction, as did the Auburn Engineering Online and Continuing Education office staff and resources, Price added. Engineering Online and Continuing Education offers more than 50 online courses and 21 graduate programs that are fully online.

Bill Cameron, assistant director of Engineering Online and Continuing Education, said his team immediately

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Since then, the team has helped familiarize hundreds of instructors with programs such as Zoom and Panopto, the college’s video recording and streaming platform.

Through Panopto, faculty have learned to capture, record and even digitally edit their lectures.

“You have people with different levels of technology skills, and you just have to meet them where they are,” said Alicia Harkless, instructional designer for Engineering Online and Continuing Education.

Harkless held multiple technology training sessions for faculty, both in person and through Zoom. Those larger sessions, each with about 60 to 100 participants, prompted dozens of other one-on-one sessions, phone calls and emails with more questions.

Engineering graduate students in online/distance learning programs continued their coursework from home and work during the remote instruction period.

Price said instructors have primarily sought help with lecture capture, giving assignments and testing.

“The faculty have been very resilient in terms of getting all that they were doing face-to-face to translate to the online world,” Harkless added. “They are maintaining the original structure and content of their courses as much as possible.”

“Biggio got organized very quickly with information about how to transition to online teaching and learning,” Price continued. “They shared resources, met with us very early and kept very long hours to support faculty and students with issues.”

For example, she helped one instructor set up Zoom “breakout rooms” so that students could continue working in preassigned groups during class time and the instructor could drop in and out of each group as needed.

Throughout the process, Cameron’s media resources team has been tasked with checking materials faculty post on Canvas and ensuring there are no issues with the technology, ideally before students try to access the materials.

Both Price and Harkless credit the Biggio Center and its Course Continuity Preparation website, directed by Asim Ali, for providing invaluable online learning solutions. For example, faculty, staff and students all have access to Biggio’s “Bighelp” Zoom meetings, where they can get live, remote help anytime during business hours.

However, professors such as John Hung, who teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, are still trying to figure out the best way to remotely teach laboratory courses, which are so hands-on by nature.

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“One of the undergraduate courses I teach is a huge challenge because it is about 80% lab work,” Hung said. “I’ve been extremely fortunate to have five exceptional teaching assistants who have been creative and very responsive … it is requiring a Herculean effort, not to mention investment in materials and equipment.”

No technology can fully replicate inperson interaction with students, says Jacqueline Hundley, senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering who currently teaches 460 freshman in an introductory computer science course.

“I miss reading the students’ faces during a class lecture and discussion, and I miss face-to-face office hours,” Hundley said.

The transition has been frustrating at times, agreed both Harkless and Price, but overall they say faculty have been positive, patient and committed to the academic standards of their courses.

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Engineering tutors go the extra mile without the extra miles College life in the age of social distancing hasn’t exactly been ideal.

But as far as boning up on hydraulics or crystallography is concerned, no one who has taken advantage of Auburn Engineering’s online tutoring options from the comfort of their own couch seems to have noticed.

“One awesome thing about offering or getting tutoring remotely is the flexibility it offers. I tutored a student that told me that they enjoy getting to sleep in and just wake up 20 minutes before and not have to get ready,” joked Gregory Starling, a senior in aerospace engineering who tutors for Engineering Student Services.

“It eliminates all of the unnecessary waiting time and allows for more work, or relaxing, to get done. Students and tutors no longer have to go to campus which, through the transit system, could take over 30 minutes,” he said.

In other words, when you can Zoom, you don’t have to zoom.

“I lived in the Village, and for me to go tutoring, it was nearly a 35-minute round trip,” said Jack McClain, a freshman in software engineering who receives tutoring in Fundamentals of Computing. “I don’t have to worry about the weather, or walking back to my dorm late, or traffic or where to park.”

McClain said he actually began taking advantage of tutoring services more after Auburn transitioned to remote instruction to fight the spread of COVID-19.

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Engineering Student Services began offering tutoring online as soon as the university transitioned to remote instruction.

“It’s just easier to schedule a session, and then keep that commitment,” he said.

McClain isn’t the only one keeping commitments.

all that different from the in-person tutoring as far as what you get out of it. I prefer in-person, but online is going well. I have no complaints.”

Very remote instruction

“The engineering tutors could have quit, but they didn’t,” said Kathy Friedenreich, an academic counselor in the Office of Student Services who coordinates the efforts of the Engineering Student Services Tutorial Center. “They adopted working remotely as quickly as the faculty and staff — if not faster. We didn’t offer remote tutoring before this, and we all had to become Zoom experts in a matter of days.”

For the past two months, Sushil Bhavnani’s lectures in Electronics Thermal Management have given new meaning to remote instruction.

Hannah Harry, a junior in civil engineering who receives tutoring for her civil engineering analysis class, is grateful that they did.

He just didn’t know it would be that distance.

“It’s been working really well so far,” Harry said. “The only disadvantage is that using Zoom limits you a little bit in how well you can communicate questions and the tutor can communicate answers. It just takes a little longer to hop between screen sharing than it does showing things by hand. But overall, I feel like it’s not

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In mid-March, Bhavnani, associate chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, flew to India due to a family emergency. He knew his students would have to temporarily embrace distance learning after Spring Break.

“My return, originally scheduled for late March, has been delayed indefinitely due to the international flight ban in response to the coronavirus,” he said.

“I am currently in the city of Mysuru in the southern part of India.”

So twice a week starting March 16, Bhavnani logged onto Zoom at 9:30 p.m. India Standard Time to teach advanced techniques in dissipating

F E AT U R E heat from the microprocessors in the very cellphones and laptops and data centers that kept his students on track to complete the semester.

“I was completely shocked that it went off without a hitch,” said Bhavnani, who administered final exams 9,111 miles from Wiggins Hall — 10.5 hours ahead of when he planned to in January — via an online proctoring service. “What facilitates this is our polite, goaloriented student body.”

Bhavnani was especially amazed by his attendance numbers, which from Day 1, never dipped below 100%.

“One day, during class, we had two brief power outages that lasted about five minutes each,” he said. “Every single student was still logged into the Zoom meeting when I got back in.

That’s pretty amazing!”

Auburn Engineering parents join the fight against COVID-19 Connor Taylor is a senior in computer engineering. His parents, Glenn and Sheila Taylor, made the first philanthropic gift to the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering in support of the RE-InVENT project.

The couple reached out to the College of Engineering’s Office of Development in early April, after reading about the initiative in one of the university’s online publications.

“When we heard what the Auburn team was doing to inventively re-purpose CPAP technology, it resonated with us,” Glenn said. “It felt similar to a MacGyver-like approach to getting an effective and quick solution. We loved that the team would act fast, and get something into the field, at EAMC, in weeks rather than years.”

Their generosity directly supports the project, and provides funds throughout the project’s evolution.

Glenn and Sheila Taylor with their son Connor and their support of COVID-19 pandemic relief.

“One thing that we found really interesting about this CPAP to ventilator research was the inventiveness of the team,” Glenn said. “The Auburn team working on the project seem to have the ability to quickly pivot to meet whatever need is greatest.”

The Taylors also mentioned how impressed they were with the college’s rapid response in 3D printing masks and supplying other personal protective equipment to local hospitals. They have been taking time to think through ways to make a difference. And from the beginning of the pandemic, they have been trying to find the silver linings of this crisis.

Sheila, who works in IT for the state government, recently transitioned to work from home. Glenn retired in January. With the additional time they have at home in Montgomery, Alabama, they have focused their efforts on providing for the individuals on the front lines of the pandemic. The couple has been creating goodie bags, which Sheila and volunteers decorate, for hospitals in their area. They are working with the hospital systems to provide meals to ICU and emergency room floor staff members.

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“We have spent a lot of time thinking about how we could do something meaningful in this time of need,” Sheila said. “We see many people doing amazing things. The true heroes in this battle are the nurses, doctors and healthcare staff on the front lines. The truck drivers who are keeping the country running. The restaurants and grocery stores that make sure our basic needs are met.

The delivery people who keep us safe with contactless delivery. These are the heroes in this ‘war.’”

And when they learned about Auburn Engineering’s efforts to fight COVID-19, they knew they wanted to join and help.

“We look forward to seeing how the team tackles the evolving coronavirus problem,” Glenn said.

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SECURING OUR NATION Auburn Engineering is on the forefront of securing our nation — and world — through transformative research and collaboration on security issues addressing cyber and critical infrastructure, elections, communications, transportation and much more. See how we’re changing the future by building a better tomorrow.

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SECURING OUR INFRASTRUCTURE The McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security has established Auburn as a national hub for government and private partnerships to help thwart the nation’s biggest threats.

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University President Jay Gogue (left) and David Bowdich, deputy director of the FBI, signed a memorandum of understanding in January that names Auburn as a partner with the bureau as it expands its workforce and operations, particularly in Huntsville.

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ina Haspel, director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Chad Wolf, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, and David Bowdich, deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, all have one thing in common. Well, maybe more than one thing.

In addition to being among the highest administrative leadership on the forefront of national security for the American people, these three leaders have developed a close relationship with Auburn University and its McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security. These leaders have all visited and spoken on campus, either in person or virtually, within the past year as the university positions itself as a national leader

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on the forefront of cyber and critical infrastructure security, policy and defense.

These relationships are vital and critical, especially in a time where the nation is constantly fending off attacks and threats from hostile nations, organizations and individuals.

In 2019, Auburn hosted Haspel, former National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers, then-DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Krebs, Assistant Director Brian Harrell and Transportation Security Administration Administrator David Pekoske. In November, the institute hosted 80 members of private industry for a Cyber Moonshot

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workshop, co-hosted by Raytheon and Unisys, with the objective of making critical infrastructure on the internet safe and secure by 2028.

“We’ve been admiring the problem a long time, and now it’s time to get things done,” said Frank Cilluffo, McCrary Institute director. “The biggest companies in the world didn’t go into business thinking they’d have to defend against other nations. It’s not just a government problem.”

In addition, Cilluffo testified before the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security. This year, Cilluffo also testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and

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Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Chad Wolf joined McCrary Institute Director Frank Cilluffo, virtually, for an event in April.

Urban Affairs, whose members include U.S. Sens. Richard Shelby and Doug Jones, both of Alabama, in a hearing titled “Threats Posed by State-Owned and State Supported Enterprises to Public Transportation.”

“The threats to public transportation posed by state-owned and statesupported enterprises is a matter of national significance, as the issue bears on U.S. national and economic security, which are inextricably intertwined,” Cilluffo said.

Since then, Auburn has also hosted Bowdich on campus and Wolf through a virtual livestreamed event.

Following Bowdich’s visit to campus, university President Jay Gogue and Bowdich signed a memorandum of

understanding. The agreement names Auburn as a partner with the FBI as the bureau expands its workforce and operations, particularly in Huntsville where the bureau is investing $1 billion in a second headquarters that will include more than 1,000 jobs with a special emphasis on cybercrime.

Auburn aims to educate and train future FBI employees, and provide next-generation specialists needed to take on critical roles across the bureau. The FBI and Auburn also will share mutually beneficial information, research and technology that advances criminal justice and student and faculty opportunities.

“Universities have a responsibility to arm the next generation workforce in

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cyber,” Cilluffo said. “Auburn’s top-notch faculty is ready to help address the greatest challenges facing our nation.”

During Wolf’s virtual visit in April, he spoke about how DHS is safeguarding the nation in many ways — particularly during this current pandemic — how the department is including a priority focus in the months ahead on economic security and how Auburn plays a vital role.

“The department has a number of resources in the state of Alabama, both from a FEMA standpoint and cybersecurity standpoint, and we find great partnerships, not only with the private institutions in the state, but also with Gov. Ivey. The state of Alabama has been a great partner to the

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The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Assistant Director Brian Harrell (center) toured the College of Veterinary Medicine’s Vapor Wake detection dogs during his visit to campus in August 2019.

Department of Homeland Security over the years,” Wolf said. “I really appreciate the work of Auburn University and the McCrary Institute. The partnership has been great, and I look forward to continuing this conversation.”

The day prior to Wolf’s visit, the McCrary Institute held another virtual livestream event with the U.S. Cyber Solarium Commission in which Cilluffo, who is a member of the commission, moderated panel discussions with other members on the topic of deterrence in cyberspace.

The event followed the Solarium Commission’s report in March detailing a comprehensive strategic approach to cybersecurity — layered cyber deterrence.

Most recently, the McCrary Institute has named 30 nationally renowned senior fellows who will add their expertise toward development of practical solutions to national security challenges.

This select group includes senior leaders with a depth of experience in government, private industry and academia.

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Their high-level government service includes the White House, Capitol Hill, the Department of Defense, and the law enforcement, intelligence and homeland security communities.

“This new cohort of senior fellows is tremendously talented and brings a wealth of national security expertise,” Cilluffo said. “Their knowledge will help power our efforts to shape policy and impact practice in the United States and build a community of experts committed to advancing our cyber and critical infrastructure security.”

Senior fellows participate actively in the development and execution of the work plans of the McCrary Institute, engaging through multimedia, pursuing research and publishing regularly on timely topics of pressing interest and concern.

“The insights and experience that this distinguished group of senior fellows brings to the table will help take the work of the institute to a new level,” said Charles D. McCrary, namesake of the institute and Auburn University trustee. “These fellows will deepen the institute’s capacity to help tackle some of the country’s most pressing challenges.”

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The institute, based in Auburn but with additional centers in Washington, D.C., and Huntsville, seeks practical solutions to pressing challenges in the areas of cyber and critical infrastructure security.

Through its three hubs, the institute offers end-to-end capability – policy, technology, research and education – on all things cyber. It is named in honor of McCrary, ’73 mechanical engineering, who served as president and chief executive officer of Alabama Power Company, following a distinguished 40year career with the company.

“The McCrary Institute has a critically important mission to provide research that improves our ability to protect our nation though cyber security and critical infrastructure protection,” said Christopher B. Roberts, dean of engineering. “Our college is proud to host the McCrary Institute, and we are so grateful to Charles and the McCrary family for their unwavering support to ensure that this work can continue into Auburn’s future.”

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MCCRARY INSTITUTE SENIOR FELLOWS RADM Tom Atkin (Ret.) Managing Principal The Atkin Group Chris Button Director of Intelligence Financial Systemic Analysis & Resilience Center

Scott Gibson Head of Strategy and Planning for Global Security Uber James Goosby General Manager, Instrumentation and Controls Support Southern Company

Cheri Caddy Senior Advisor, Cybersecurity Policy & Strategy U.S. Department of Energy

Thomas Harrington Associate Deputy Director (Ret.) Federal Bureau of Investigation

Christopher Cleary Chief Information Security Officer U.S. Department of the Navy

Lt. Gen. Reynold Hoover (Ret.) Principal RNHoover Consulting

Harry Coker Senior Executive (Ret.) Central Intelligence Agency

Daniel Kaniewski Managing Director, Public Sector Innovation Marsh & McLennan Companies

Daniel Collier Chief of Intelligence Operations Air University Chris Cummiskey Chief Executive Officer Cummiskey Strategic Solutions Brian de Vallance Principal Crosscut Consulting Nicholas Eftimiades Professor Penn State University John Felker Cybersecurity Expert Emily Frye Director for Cyber Integration The MITRE Corporation

Catherine Lotrionte Professor Georgetown University Jeanette Manfra Global Director of Security & Compliance Google Cloud RADM Mark Montgomery (Ret.) Executive Director Cyberspace Solarium Commission Timothy Newberry Founder BlackHorse Solutions Tom Patterson Chief Trust Officer Unisys

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Christopher Porter National Intelligence Officer for Cyber National Intelligence Council Harvey Rishikof Senior Counsel ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security Marcus Sachs Chief Security Officer Pattern Computer Emily Scala Homeland Security Expert Todd Stein Senior Vice President Irrimax Corporation Miles Taylor Head of National Security Policy Engagement Google Errol Weiss Chief Security Officer Health Information Sharing & Analysis Center Joe Whitley Practice Chair, Government Enforcement & Investigations Baker Donelson Henry Willis Director, Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center (HSOAC) Strategy, Policy, and Operations Program RAND Corporation

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SECURING OUR ELECTIONS As our election systems face evolving threats, an interdisciplinary collaboration between two nationally recognized programs at Auburn University will better prepare election officials for these challenges.

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s millions of Americans prepare to vote this election season, the security and integrity of our elections is a topic at the forefront of many people’s minds.

Will there be voter fraud or voter suppression? Could hackers try to tamper with voter rolls or even votes?

How will the COVID-19 pandemic affect my ability to vote?

As people ponder these questions, thousands of election managers across the United States are already grappling with these issues and many more. For these election officials, their roles have grown increasingly challenging over the years as election systems have become more complex and technology has become more widely used in elections and their management.

It’s for that reason that a new interdisciplinary collaboration is combining two of Auburn University’s greatest strengths in the interest of securing our elections.

The McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security is teaming up with Auburn University’s Election Administration Initiative, housed in the Department of Political Science, to integrate its cyber expertise into established certification and academic programs offered by Auburn University.

“Having both the McCrary Institute and the Election Administration Initiative under one roof at Auburn University is absolutely exceptional. No other university has this combined level of expertise,” said Kathleen Hale, professor of political science and the initiative’s director.

Auburn has been a national leader in election administration for decades.

The university has the nation’s largest group of faculty in the field of political science and public administration that focus on election administration.

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From left, Kathleen Hale, Mitchell Brown and Frank Cilluffo

The university offers the only national certification program for election officials through its 25-year partnership with the Election Center – known more commonly as the National Association of Election Officials. In addition to the certification program, Auburn is also one of two universities that offer a graduate certificate in election administration, either as a stand-alone program like Auburn’s or in conjunction with a Master of Public Administration program.

Its training covers everything from maintaining election systems to continuity of operations planning.

With the McCrary Institute’s help, the initiative hopes to layer in additional training on IT systems in election administration, election vulnerabilities, and detecting and responding to cyber breaches.

Given its focus and national prestige, partnering with the Election Administration Initiative was a natural fit for the McCrary Institute and its affiliated Center for Cyber and Homeland Security.

“Despite the differences in laws and institutions across the states and even within states, the problems are all exactly the same,” said Mitchell Brown, professor of political science. “What this certification and this community of election officials offers is crossfertilization of best practices and adapting other people’s best practices to different contexts.”

“They’re doing amazing work already, and we at the McCrary Institute saw lots of opportunities to plug our work into theirs,” McCrary Institute Director Frank Cilluffo said. “We have had a number of conversations with government entities that are involved with this, including federal, state and local officials, who expressed real interest and excitement about our teams collaborating on these activities.”

The Election Administration Initiative’s work is largely focused on professionalizing the field of election administration and building capacity across state and local election offices.

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These issues present challenges to election offices of all sizes and across all jurisdictions.

As the collaboration between the Election Administration Initiative and the McCrary Institute continues to unfold, aspirations include the development of a free-standing graduate certificate that focuses on cybersecurity in elections from a policy and governance perspective.

Some of that curriculum could potentially dovetail into the certification training offered through the Election Center.

E L E C T I O N S // F E A T U R E “The exciting part of this partnership with the McCrary Institute and developing the synergy that comes from these two expert areas working together is that we will build new capacity for preparedness, build new capacity for continuity of operations as well as for administrative practices and for thinking about how people can vote safely and securely,” Hale said.

By adding additional curricula and training to address these evolving threats to our election systems, the Election Administration Initiative and the McCrary Institute are aiming to ensure the kind of elections that Americans expect – ones that are secure, transparent and where every vote is counted.

“We’re talking about arming and educating our administrators with knowledge to better maintain the trust and efficacy of our election systems,” Cilluffo said. “At the end of the day, our election systems are all about trust.”

Through their work with the Election Center, political science faculty Kathleen Hale and Mitchell Brown have a unique window into election offices around the United States. Their research into America’s election systems is detailed in their new book, “How We Vote: Innovation in American Elections,” published by Georgetown University Press.

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LESSONS IN ELECTION SECURITY FROM ESTONIA

By Chris Anthony The Baltic nation of Estonia turned heads in 2005 when it became the first country in the world to implement internet voting in national elections.

Some of the heads turned were those of information security professionals and researchers such as Drew Springall, assistant professor of computer science and software engineering.

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Researchers have scrutinized various online voting systems over the years looking for flaws that could be exploited. As a graduate student at the University of Michigan, Springall was part of a team that went a step further and analyzed the system from the perspective of its realistic threats: nation-state actors.

Using open-source components and reverse engineering techniques, the team was able to replicate the Estonian internet voting system in their research lab.

“What we found was that there were a lot of really good things about that system,” said Springall, who joined the Auburn faculty in January following nearly two years working on Google’s Production Security team. “They did a lot of things right, but the system just didn’t stand up to the realistic threats it faced. If you have a top-tier, nation-state intelligence organization coming after it, there’s a lot of ways that it could be compromised without anyone ever knowing.”

Springall and his colleagues found deficiencies not only in the technical aspects but also in its implementation and procedures. In the spirit of transparency, Estonian election officials recorded the process from start-to-finish and published it on YouTube. These videos included setup, maintenance and auditing as well as unintended elements such as administrator passwords.

In another instance, an error exporting the vote tally was remediated on-the-fly by transferring the official results using a personal USB drive fetched from an official’s own pocket. Although easily addressable, these instances, along with others, showed that instead of treating the system as a matter of national security, it was often treated as a standard IT operation.

So what lessons can be applied from the Estonian model to help secure elections in the U.S.?

“Don’t try to vote over the internet,” Springall quipped.

“But in all seriousness, the best we can do at this point is paper ballots with risk-limiting audits. There are a lot of fundamental security problems we have to solve before internet voting is feasible.”

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SECURING OUR COMMUNICATIONS As the rise of quantum information processing threatens standard encryption schemes, Auburn Engineering researchers are working toward unbreakable quantum encryption.

An artist’s rendering of two quantumly entangled particles.

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Mike Hamilton, professor of electrical and computer engineering, is director of the Alabama Micro/Nano Science and Technology Center.

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or decades, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) has been the gold standard for securing sensitive data, ranging from military communications to financial transactions.

But quantum computers, which employ quantum-mechanical phenomena to perform computational operations more efficiently than classical computers, pose an existential threat to the standard algorithmic-based encryption schemes relied upon in today’s environment.

An encryption that may take a classical computer 1,000 years to break could potentially be broken by a quantum computer in a matter of minutes.

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That startling reality has the world looking toward the next iteration of cryptography in the impending quantum era, sparking a battle for quantum supremacy between the United States and China.

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“The U.S. has significantly fallen behind China in quantum information processing,” said Mark Adams, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. “China has beaten us to the punch over the last number of years. The Chinese government has spent a lot of money to increase their capabilities in this area.”

That was evident in 2017 when China launched the world’s first quantum satellite into orbit.

To counter, the Department of Defense is supporting wide-ranging research initiatives in quantum information processing, including multiple projects led by Adams and professor Mike Hamilton at Auburn University.

One such project, sponsored by the Air Force, is working to advance the quantum encryption work China has demonstrated with satellites by scaling it down for small satellites. With

An artist’s rendering of a small, cube satellite.

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Mark Adams, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, is planning a separate research study looking at generating truly entangled optical particles for a small satellite.

traditional cryptography, an encrypted message can be decrypted with a key that is sent through standard channels.

Using a technique known as quantum key distribution (QKD), the message is still sent using standard encryption, but the key itself is a quantum-based key sent via satellite, fiber or another method.

“Our entire project is creating a test bed for evaluating this technology.

We’re building the satellites, we’re building the payload, we’re building the ground stations and everything so that we can test how effective this technique is from a miniature CubeSat,” Adams said. “The Chinese already demonstrated it from a large, school bus-size satellite. We’re trying to take a school bus and condense it down to a small satellite. There are a lot of engineering challenges to put it in

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As we understand it today, quantum mechanics forbids you from doing what you would need to do to break the quantum keys.

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something the size of two loafs of bread.”

And these aren’t your standard engineering challenges. For instance, the environment can act on two quantumly entangled particles, causing them to lose their connection, which is known as quantum decoherence.

“This is one of the key challenges of quantum engineering,” said Hamilton, director of the Alabama Micro/Nano Science and Technology Center. “How

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do we take these systems and engineer them so they maintain their coherence and quantum properties as we literally cram them into smaller spaces?”

At present, Auburn’s QKD setup can only operate at night due to solar blinding, where energy from the sun can wash out signals sent on the typical communication wavelength of 1.5 microns. Adams and Hamilton are exploring a number of options to make their QKD system viable around the clock instead of just at night.

F E AT U R E “We’re looking at using longer wavelengths or lower energy photons that could cause less solar blinding,” Hamilton said. “Then you’re not being washed out by wavelengths from the sun’s energy. Other possible paths include pushing wavelengths deeper into infrared or even going down into microwaves.”

But the biggest challenge researchers face is a fundamental one: how do you generate enough entangled particles to make this system work? Creating entangled particles takes a lot of power and it doesn’t generate many photons, while also creating a lot of heat.

“There’s a ton of issues with generating entangled particles from an optical standpoint,” Adams said.

In the interim, Adams and Hamilton are using decoherent pulses – not fully entangled particles – to make their QKD system work with lower photon counts. Adams is planning a separate research study looking at generating truly entangled optical particles for a small satellite.

The QKD project is nearing the twoyear mark, when it will undergo critical design review and the Air Force will decide whether Auburn can go forward with build-out. If given the go-ahead, the satellite could potentially launch into orbit in the project’s fifth year.

Marching toward impenetrability Although QKD and other forms of quantum information processing represent a major step forward, the long-term goal is to fully unlock the technology’s encryption potential.

“The ultimate objective is to have quantum entanglement sources where we could generate the data fast enough to transmit full messages through quantum encryption, but right now that’s just intractable,” Hamilton said.

Equipment is shown in the STORM Lab (Sensors, Transducers, Optics, RF and MEM Lab) run by associate professor Mark Adams.

Until then, like much quantum information processing research, it’s an iterative process to advance the technology by adapting today’s systems to work with quantum systems.

“Physicists may want to work with the most fundamentally quantum components so they can learn about the physics,” Hamilton said. “But we have the ability as engineers to build some really advanced, hybrid systems that may be quantum for one part and classical for another.”

And these hybrid systems, such as QKD, have some serious upsides from a communication security perspective.

If someone were to intercept a quantum key transmission, the key’s sender would know immediately.

“Since the two photons share similar characteristics, if you measure one of those photons by eavesdropping on it, the characteristics of the other one change simultaneously,” Adams said.

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“That’s a big security advantage that comes with quantum entanglement.”

As much as American and Chinese defense officials would love to know when they are being overheard by their geopolitical rivals, the two countries are pouring large sums of money into quantum encryption research for a far loftier goal – a totally impenetrable encryption scheme.

And that’s exactly what researchers at Auburn University are working toward with QKD. “As we understand it today, quantum mechanics forbids you from doing what you would need to do to break the quantum keys,” Hamilton said.

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SECURING OUR TRANSPORTATION Though most of the recent recognition for Auburn University’s GPS and Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory (GAVLAB) stems from its autonomous transportation innovations, the underlying research into the vulnerabilities of GPS also has significant implications for national security.

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ou’re using GPS right now. You used it yesterday.

You’ll use it tomorrow. So the next time you see professors David Bevly, Scott Martin, Howard Chen, or even any of the more than 30 undergraduate and graduate student researchers working within the GPS and Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory (GAVLAB), tell them thanks for helping you watch Netflix on your phone. For helping you navigate a new town. For Amazon Prime. For securing the nation.

Because that’s what GAVLAB researchers have been doing for nearly 20 years — utilizing and improving upon the miracle of global positioning to make life better, and safer.

“GPS is used in a variety of both military and civilian applications, like the timing of communications and financial transactions,” said Scott Martin, an assistant research professor who joined GAVLAB as a graduate student in 2008.

“But it’s susceptible to interference from people looking to disrupt our everyday processes, which can cause real-

world problems that affect the average citizen as well as the military. We’re looking to solve those problems not 10 years from now, we’re looking for solutions that we can implement tomorrow.”

GAVLAB has secured nearly $10 million in funding in just two years. Though most recent recognition for the lab stems from its autonomous transportation innovations, the underlying research into the vulnerabilities of GPS also has implications for both the fight against malicious jamming and environmental complications.

“While GPS provides us very accurate navigation information when available, it can be degraded in some environments with heavy foliage or urban canyons where buildings block the signals,” Martin said. “We’re working to improve the availability of GPS and to improve accuracy of the navigation solutions by combining GPS with additional sensors, cameras, lidar and radar commonly found on production vehicles that

F E A T U R E // T R A N S P O R T A T I O N can be used to improve the robustness of our solutions.”

Those solutions routinely pique the interest of the military, which is eager to incorporate autonomous navigation applications like truck platooning into everything from combat supply logistics to rescue missions.

“Any time we can provide automation to remove humans from dangerous and difficult operations, that’s a good thing,” said Bevly, the Bill and Lana McNair Distinguished Professor, who started GAVLAB in 2001.

Bernie Theisen agrees.

“Driverless capabilities can do so much for our soldiers and their missions,” said Theisen, who currently manages the autonomous ground resupply program for the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Ground Vehicle Systems Center.

In October 2017, GAVLAB, in cooperation with the Michigan

Department of Transportation, partnered with CCDC Ground Vehicle Systems Center to conduct the Army’s first live demonstration of autonomous vehicle technology on public roads.

Utilizing radar measurements, GPS and other on-board vehicle data, GAVLAB’s proprietary platooning software allowed its two Peterbilt 579 test trucks to lead a convoy of commercial and military trucks across the Blue Water Bridge connecting Port Huron, Michigan with Ontario.

“We can move soldiers out of the convoy trucks and into missions where they’re uniquely suited,” Theisen said.

“This technology can significantly increase the safety for those soldiers who do continue to operate the convoys.”

The pair of Peterbilts also made history in late 2018 during Canada’s first ever on-road commercial truck platooning trial. A distance of between 65 to 100 feet was kept between the vehicles, allowing a passenger vehicle to safely

Auburn University’s GPS and Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory, or GAVLAB, is a national leader in navigation and positioning research.

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cut in between them. A collaboration between Auburn and Canadian research partners, FPInnovations and Transport Canada, the platoon traveled for several hundred miles on highways around Montreal and surrounding areas in Quebec with normal vehicular traffic.

“Auburn’s system proved to be very reliable even in the rainy and snowy conditions we experienced,” said Edouard Proust, a PIT Group engineer with FPInnovations. “We were able to spend most of our time on the road with the platooning mode engaged.”

GAVLAB is also currently contributing to another unprecedented automated platooning study alongside several other organizations representing defense, academia and the public sector. Begun in 2018, the twoyear study sponsored by the American Center for Mobility aims to autonomously control the throttle, braking and steering of an entire fleet of both military and commercial grade

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“Truck platooning technology has the potential to make our streets safer and increase efficiency in the transportation industry. Those are the kind of transformational research outcomes that drive us at Auburn Engineering,” said Christopher B. Roberts, dean of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.

“Our college is committed to staying at the forefront of this area of research.”

Staying on the forefront means continuing to secure experts like Bevly, who has served as principal or coprincipal investigator on nearly $34 million in extramurally funded research, and who holds four patents related to GPS technology and vehicle control.

It also means facilities, facilities, facilities.

GAVLAB has access to the National Center for Asphalt Technology’s (NCAT) test track, a 1.7-mile oval jointly operated by Auburn University and the National Asphalt Pavement Association, as well as several by-wire and automated vehicles that in addition to the two Peterbilt tractors include a Lincoln MKZ and an autonomous ATV. In May, construction began next to the test track on an $800,000 autonomous vehicle research facility that will provide GAVLAB researchers conditioned space in which to equip its growing fleet with navigation instrumentation and control systems. The facility includes two high garage bays that open directly onto the test track.

“The facility is going to provide a place for our students to be able to work out of the elements on the cars, to be able to set up experiments and really

develop and debug algorithms while we test out at that great facility at NCAT,” Bevly said. “I’ve been to a lot of other schools that have incredible garage and research space where they’re doing autonomous vehicle work, but none of it is attached to a track.”

If you’d like to monitor the facility’s progress, just ask Google to take you to 32°35’57.8”N 85°17’40.6”W. “We expect that now,” Bevly said.

“Positioning has become ubiquitous. We want to know where we’re at or how to get somewhere, and we want that all the time.”

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GAVLAB’s research focuses on vehicle dynamics and transportation systems including heavy trucks, passenger cars and off-road vehicles, both conventional and autonomous.

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TRANSPORTATION INNOVATION Auburn University will soon have one of the nation’s only autonomous vehicle research facilities that is attached to a test track.

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or researchers in Auburn University’s GPS and Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory, prepping autonomous vehicles outside in Alabama’s elements – from the sweltering summer sun to pop-up thunderstorms – has become a near daily occurrence.

Whether researchers are debugging algorithms, installing sensors or running data analyses, much of the GAVLAB’s work is done outdoors – and subject to Mother Nature’s whims.

That is about to change with the planned addition of a sophisticated new autonomous vehicle research facility at Auburn’s National Center for Asphalt Technology test track. The facility is expected to provide a garage with multiple bays and lifts for commercial trucks and passenger vehicles, office space for researchers, a conference room and an observation area overlooking NCAT’s 1.7-mile oval test track.

The building, estimated to cost approximately $800,000, will be one of the few autonomous research facilities in the nation attached to a test track.

“The fact that we’ll have our own test track where we can run autonomous vehicles and autonomous testing attached to this facility I think will be an unbelievably unique asset,” said David Bevly, the Bill and Lana McNair Distinguished Professor of mechanical engineering and codirector of the GAVLAB along with assistant research professor Scott Martin.

Since Bevly joined the Auburn Engineering faculty in 2001, the GAVLAB has built a strong reputation in autonomous vehicle navigation and developed a broad sponsored research portfolio, with projects ranging from the Department of Defense and the Federal Highway Administration to many private industry partners.

With various sponsors visiting each month, the facility’s planned observation area will give the GAVLAB team a high-quality space to demonstrate its research. Bevly’s group has also conducted demonstrations for legislators and the Alabama Department of Transportation.

“I think it will be a great facility for us as a team, but also to showcase our work,” Bevly said.

With a growing research thrust in transportation engineering, the autonomous research facility also demonstrates Auburn’s commitment to supporting these research initiatives.

“Dave and his GAVLAB team are one of our top research groups on campus, and their work has elevated Auburn to an internationally prominent position in navigation and vehicle dynamics for autonomous vehicles,” said Jeff Suhling, the Quina Professor and department chair for mechanical engineering. “Our department is proud to commit resources along with the College of Engineering to support high-impact researchers. We think this facility will really help set us apart from other universities in autonomous vehicle research.”

Much of the GPS and Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory’s research is performed at the National Center for Asphalt Technology test track.

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IT’S MY JOB

BY JEREMY HENDERSON

A 2013 biosystems engineering graduate, Katelyn Rheinlander spends her days solving problems at the largest Frito-Lay facility in North America.

KATELYN RHEINLANDER ’13 Biosystems Engineering Warehouse Performance Manager for PepsiCo Frito-Lay

SO WHAT DO YOU DO? I work for PepsiCo Frito-Lay as a warehouse performance manager. I work in a manufacturing facility in Warner Robbins, Georgia. It’s over a million square feet, so it’s the largest Frito-Lay facility under one roof in North America. We have 15 production lines and it’s a full-mix warehouse, and we have our own traffic fleet.

There’s a lot going on, and it’s a cool place to work. I make chips for a living.

WHAT KIND OF CHIPS? All of them. When I first started, Sun Chips and Tostitos Scoops were the two production lines I was responsible for, and there were about 15 people on each. But I got to be part of a start-up, and we put in a brand new fried Cheetos and Smartfood popcorn line. So that’s now four lines and about 35 people I supervise. And that’s just in one department. We have four different departments. If Frito-Lay makes them, we probably make them in that plant.

I always say that Funyuns are the coolest to watch cook, because the way the process works is it’s all about air pressure and that’s how they get that puffed up look, and there’s just nothing better than a warm Funyun.

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WHY DOES FRITO-LAY NEED ENGINEERS TO HELP MAKE CHIPS? We hire engineers because we love the way they think. We want people who can problem-solve and troubleshoot. I started in production overseeing packaging, with a team of folks that I managed, and I was in charge of day-

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“If you had asked me, coming into biosystems, if I had wanted to make chips for the rest of my life, I probably would have laughed at you.”

to-day operations. It’s really engineering for people — in my eight-hour shift or my 12-hour shift, what problems am I solving for them today? From there, I took over an automated multi-pack line in our carton division, and then recently I transitioned into a role in our direct-to-store model, which is basically how we fill customized orders. So if you want a bag of Lays, a bag of Doritos, and a bag of Smartfood, we’re going to take those individual orders and send them off to gas stations and grocery stores. I’ve gotten to do a lot of different things all in one facility, and it’s just a neat environment. It’s a lot of young managers, so there’s like 30 or 40 of us under the age of 30. It’s just a really fun group to get to be with.

There’s 10 or 12 of us from Auburn.

HOW HAS YOUR DEGREE SERVED YOUR CAREER? If you had asked me, coming into biosystems, if I had wanted to make chips for the rest of my life, I probably would have laughed at you. But I think the thing that biosystems has given me is the confidence to go do whatever I wanted to do. What initially drew me in was the idea of fostering sustainability and working on environmental impact. I felt like, in the world that we function in today, those issues

are so critical and important. And I also loved the idea of a little bit smaller department — at least it was smaller when I started — and the ability to get that one-on-one attention with some of the best professors across the board. I describe it as a combination of environmental and agricultural engineering, but I think we talked about it sometimes as a jack-of-all-trades degree. We take classes in electrical, we take classes in coding, in agricultural and environmental and civil. Whatever you decide to go do, you have the tool skillset and the capability to go do that and so I loved the options that it provided me. What I valued the most is that it put me in situations where I didn’t know how I was going to finish something, how I was going to finish this homework assignment, how I was going to finish this project. But it provided me with the support and push to go do it. Every day at work I run into similar situations, and I feel confident that I can go solve that problem because I’ve done it before. I’ve come to a stop in the road and said ‘I don’t know how I’m going to have to do this’ — every time I’ve had homework in heat and mass transfer — and I’ve come out the other side and said, ‘no, I can do this,’ and that’s given me the confidence to go make chips.

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Be the Creed B E T H E C R E E D // S T U D E N T I believe in education,

which gives me the knowledge to work wisely

a n d t ra i n s my m i n d a n d my h a n d s to w o r k s k i l l f u l l y.

BY CASSIE MONTGOMERY

Turnipseed is the first generation of his family to attend college.

JEFFERY TURNIPSEED Senior Computer Engineering

It’s an opportunity he does not take lightly.

Going to college was always Jeffery Turnipseed’s goal – it was never a question of if but a question of where the Calera, Alabama, native would attend.

“My high school math teacher went to Auburn and it wasn’t until hearing my teacher talk about her love for this school and being introduced to the Auburn Family. I thought it was a cliché at first but once I learned more about the Auburn Family, I knew Auburn was for me,” said Turnipseed, a senior in computer engineering.

“The Auburn Family is something that I’ve literally felt from the time that I was thinking of coming to Auburn to the first time I stepped on campus, and it’s something that I know I’ll be a part of once I leave.”

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“I’m all about embracing life and educating myself,” he said.

“I’m setting an example for future generations of my family and my community to go to college and be inspired to pursue their dreams and passions, too.”

Throughout his Auburn Engineering experience, Turnipseed has taken advantage of opportunities to get involved to grow personally and professionally, from intramural sports to the Engineering Academic Excellence Program.

“From being involved, I know there is an expectation for Auburn students to be great, not just for Auburn but for the community as well,” he said. “It’s about pushing us to be better than we are and better than we were. It’s truly about developing character. Everyone is a leader when they leave Auburn University.”

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F A C U LT Y // B E T H E C R E E D I believe that this is a practical world and that I can count only on what I earn.

Therefore, I believe in work , hard work .

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Auburn University as a leader in carbon dioxide utilization and storage research.

LAUREN BECKINGHAM Assistant Professor Civil Engineering

Capturing carbon is one of engineering’s grand challenges.

In Lauren Beckingham’s mind, it might just be the grandest.

“CO2 is a greenhouse gas and a major contributor to global warming,” said Beckingham, assistant professor of civil engineering. “And since atmospheric emissions of CO2 continue to increase, means of reducing those emissions is really critical.”

In other words, if we can’t find a practical way to capture carbon, engineering’s other grand challenges become moot.

Enter Beckingham, the principal investigator for an interdisciplinary team of researchers that have positioned

“We are looking at a myriad of ways that CO2 can be utilized for purposes such as producing green fuels, chemicals and materials or enhancing energy production,” she said.

Beckingham recently received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Development award for her work in environmental engineering.

Her childhood friends would be proud.

“When I was really little, I started a Save The Earth club for the neighborhood kids,” the Princeton graduate said, smiling. “When I went to college, the environmental engineering classes were the most challenging, but also really inspirational. I could do something using science and math that would have a positive change not only for my life, but for other people.”

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B E T H E C R E E D // S T A F F I believe in the human touch, which cultivates sympathy with my fellow men and mutual helpfulness and brings happiness for all.

BY CASSIE MONTGOMERY

JERRY VAN TUYL

“The Chick-fil-A culture is based on serving others with a joyous heart,” he said. “And serving someone else is a twoway street. It hopefully helps the person you are serving but also brings a smile to your face from helping make someone’s day a little easier.”

Administrative Assistant Office of Career Developement and Corporate Relations

“Make yourself a great day!”

These words are how Jerry Van Tuyl closes his emails. It’s also the way he chooses to live his life.

Van Tuyl’s is the first face students and prospective employers see when they visit the Office of Career Development and Corporate Relations (CDCR) on the first floor in the Brown-Kopel Engineering Student Achievement Center. His philosophy was honed through his background in the fast food industry. Until joining CDCR in fall 2019, he served as director of training at the Chick-fil-A on Magnolia Avenue, directly across the street from the Auburn University campus.

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In his role as CDCR administrative assistant, he interacts with students daily. He organizes visits from prospective employers for on-campus interviews, assists in career fairs and generally lends a helping hand where one is needed.

“Being on a college campus is so exciting - it keeps you young at heart. My favorite part of the job is definitely working with the students,” he said. “These students are going to change the world and they teach me a lot more than I teach them.”

Above all, he is proud to be part of the Auburn Family.

“This is a great school,” he said. “We’re blessed to live and work here. War Eagle!”

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A L U M N I // B E T H E C R E E D I believe in honesty and truthfulness, without which I cannot win the respect and confidence of my fellow men.

BY LAUREN WINTON

REKHA MENON-VARMA ’95

“In the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak, we were assessing how this would impact the supply chain in China.

Now, we’re working with our European and U.S. partners to also assess impacts on operations, business continuity and consumer confidence,” Varma said.

Chemical Engineering Vertaeon Co-Founder and Managing Partner

At a time when the future seems uncertain, Rekha Menon-Varma, a chemical engineering graduate, offers solutions. Vertaeon – the business she co-founded – provides assessment tools and mitigation solutions for risk management. More specifically, Varma’s business focuses on enterprise and supply chain risks and sustainable operations.

Varma’s hope is to provide companies with the tools they need to minimize business uncertainty and improve competitive advantage.

Her team has an extensive background in operations, data modeling and corporate strategy. Their software tools offer intuitive, web-based platforms for risk assessment and growth opportunity identification, which they subsequently leverage to turn into strategic recommendations. When the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep the globe, Vertaeon was called upon by corporate customers to help.

“We are in the process of talking with the College of Engineering’s Career Development and Corporate Relations Office. I think this is the right time because, our business model tackles real-world problems that impact today’s global corporations,” Varma said. “We have the unique opportunity to engage students and train them as they analyze data and work with us to create solutions.”

She is also working to provide Auburn Engineering students with the tools they need to successfully prepare for entry and find footing in the workforce.

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SIMULATING URBAN AIR MOBILITY

BY IMON CHAKRABORTY

Students take to the air, virtually, inside the reconfigurable flight simulator.

IMON CHAKRABORTY Assistant Professor Aerospace Engineering

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ou’ve probably seem promo videos or read articles about “Urban Air Mobility” (UAM) – currently a hot research topic in aerospace engineering – where small aircraft capable of taking off and landing vertically transport people on short-hop flights within a city or between nearby destinations, avoiding heavy traffic congestion on the roads below. If successful, this concept of operations could have a very substantial positive societal impact. As with any potentially transformative technology, however, several barriers must first be overcome before widespread adoption is a possibility.

For instance, how do we guarantee that these revolutionary aircraft will have stable flight characteristics? How do we ensure that passengers get to enjoy a comfortable ride in them (a must for widespread adoption)? How do we design these aircraft to be “pilot-friendly” by design, so that it’s possible to train a large number of UAM pilots at a fraction of the cost of training a commercial airline pilot today?

These are some of the questions that we at the Vehicle Systems, Dynamics, and Design Laboratory (VSDDL) want to address. Over the last year, we’ve built (from scratch) the Reconfigurable Flight Simulator (RFS) – a flight simulation facility located in Gavin Room 257 designed to have the flexibility needed to do research on novel future aircraft concepts.

An interesting fact about the RFS – one that I’m immensely proud of – is it was designed and built by a team of mostly undergraduate students.

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Team members (L-R) Cameron Leonard, Imon Chakraborty, Tommy Cox, Anthony Comer, Henry Reagan and Matt Seay in front of the reconfigurable flight simulator.

Controls are virtually the same as those on a physical aircraft.

In the RFS, we use a large 16-foot diameter cylindrical screen and overhead projectors to display a 270-degree horizontal field-of-view image representing what the pilot would see “out-the-window.” Since we don’t know exactly what future aircraft designs will look like, we’ve designed the RFS to allow us to change the layout of the cockpit, the position and types of cockpit controls, and the design of the cockpit instruments and displays. We drive the RFS with a simulation model that we’re developing with funding from NASA Langley Research Center that lets us model a wide variety of flight vehicle designs and flight control system algorithms.

be pilots, and (iii) people with driver’s licenses but no pilot training. These participants will get to “fly” a UAM vehicle in the simulator and perform some representative UAM piloting tasks – taking off, going from A-to-B, landing, etc. We’ll then analyze the flight data gathered and compare the relative performance of these three groups to gain insight on how to make these novel flight vehicles more pilot-friendly and easier to transition to with little or no prior aviation (piloting) experience.

Later this year, we’ll use the RFS for a simulation study in which we’ll recruit three types of participants: (i) certified flight instructors from among our colleagues in the Aviation Department, (ii) students currently training to

If you’re interested in being part of this study, or you have ideas for some interesting research involving flight simulation, or if you’d just like to come out and see it, please let us know!

Imon Chakraborty is an assistant professor of aerospace engineering. Check out his lab’s website at vsddl.com.

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FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS research. Civil engineering faculty members Brian Anderson, Justin Marshall and David Roueche are coprincipal investigators.

Vinamra Agrawal, assistant professor of aerospace engineering, received a $408,000 National Science Foundation award to investigate the multiscaled response of materials when subjected to shock loading.

David Bevly, the Bill and Lana McNair Professor of mechanical engineering, received $444,000 in total awards for GPS and alternative positioning, navigation and timing research since November.

Benjamin Bowers, assistant professor of pavements and materials engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering, was elected to be a director-at-large on the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists Board of Directors.

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Pengyu Chen, assistant professor of materials engineering, received a $900,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for leukemia cell mapping and immunotherapy research.

Lorenzo Cremaschi, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and Selen Cremaschi, the B. Redd Professor of chemical engineering, were awarded a $1.8 million grant from the Department of Energy for their research on new “refrigerant-free” technology for building humidity control.

James Davidson, the Gottlieb Professor of structural engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering, received an $800,000 grant from the Battelle Memorial Institute for structural engineering

George Flowers, professor of mechanical engineering and dean of the Graduate School, received the Glenn Howze Academic Freedom Award from the American Association of University Professors’ Auburn chapter.

Greg Harris, associate professor of industrial and systems engineering, received an Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award from Auburn University’s Graduate Student Council.

Pradeep Lall, the John and Anne MacFarlane Professor of mechanical engineering, received $1 million in total awards for flexible electronics research since January.

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Jasmeet Lamba, assistant professor of biosystems engineering, was awarded a $500,000 grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture to advance understanding of heavy metal transport processes in agricultural fields applied with animal waste.

Shiwen Mao, the Samuel Ginn Endowed Professor of electrical and computer engineering, and his students Chao Yang and Xuyu Wang received a Best Paper Award from the 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference for their work on RFID-based driving fatigue detection. He and his students Xuyu Wang and Lingjun Gao also received a Best Journal Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society Multimedia Communications Technical Committee for their work on deep learningbased indoor localization.

Scott Martin, assistant research professor of mechanical engineering,

F A C U LT Y H I G H L I G H T S of the ACM Transactions on Computing Education titled “Situating the Intersectional Experiences of Black Girls and Women in Computing and Technology​.”

science and software engineering, is editor of a new book, “Women in Industrial and Systems Engineering.”

received $590,000 in total awards for GPS and alternative positioning, navigation and timing research since November.

Mark Schall, associate professor of industrial and systems engineering, was appointed to the editorial boards of the journal Human Factors and the International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics.

Anton Schindler, the Mountain Spirit Professor of structural engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering, was named vice chair of the ACI Foundation’s Scholarship Council.

Alice Smith, the Joe W. Forehand/Accenture Distinguished Professor of industrial and systems engineering with a joint appointment in computer

Yin Sun, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, along with three co-authors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, published a new book titled “Age of Information: A New Metric for Information Freshness.”

Bruce Tatarchuk, the Charles E. Gavin III Professor of chemical engineering, received a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Navy for research on high-power battery systems.

Jakita Thomas, the PhilpottWestPoint Stevens Associate Professor of computer science and software engineering, is co-editor of a Forum for Association of Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Interactions magazine called “Intersectionality in HCI” (human-computer interaction). She is also the co-editor of a special issue

PROMOTIONS and TENURE Selen Cremaschi was promoted to B. Redd Professor of chemical engineering.

Sean Gallagher was promoted to Hal N. and Peggy S. Pennington Professor of industrial and systems engineering.

Brian Thurow, the W. Allen and Martha Reed Professor and chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering, and Michael Hamilton, professor of electrical and computer engineering, received a $585,775 grant from the U.S. Air Force for a project titled “Miniature Imaging Systems for Embedded Internal Flow Field Measurements in High-Speed Ground Test Facilities.”

Randy West, director of the National Center for Asphalt Technology, received an $800,000 grant from the National Academy of Sciences for a project researching pavement performance.

Joel Hayworth, associate professor of environmental engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering, was granted tenure.

Peter He, associate professor of chemical engineering, was granted tenure.

Elizabeth Lipke was promoted to Mary and John H. Sanders Professor of chemical engineering.

Mark Schall was promoted to associate professor of industrial and systems engineering and granted tenure.

Tao Shu was promoted to associate professor of computer science and software engineering and granted tenure.

Yi Wang was promoted to associate professor of biosystems engineering and granted tenure.

Levent Yilmaz, professor of computer science and software engineering, was named a fellow of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International.

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THE AWARD GOES TO...

Kenneth Kelly, ’90 electrical engineering and chairman and CEO of First Independence Bank; Linda DuCharme, ’86 chemical engineering and president of ExxonMobil Upstream Integrated Solutions; and David Mobley, ’61 electrical engineering and consultant for ECHOTA Research & Science Applications.

The State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame inducted six individuals, including three Auburn University alumni, during a ceremony in February at the Bryant Conference Center in Tuscaloosa.

organization also announced the appointment of two Auburn Engineering graduates to its board — Tony Smoke, ’84 electrical engineering and vice president of the Birmingham division of Alabama Power, and Ken Smith, ’81 civil engineering and former president of Spire.

This year’s inductees from the university include Linda DuCharme, ’86 chemical engineering and president of ExxonMobil Upstream Integrated Solutions; Kenneth Kelly, ’90 electrical engineering and chairman and CEO of First Independence Bank; and David Mobley, ’61 electrical engineering and consultant for ECHOTA Research & Science Applications.

Linda DuCharme joined Exxon Company in 1986 after graduating from Auburn University with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. She spent the first 10 years of her career in New Orleans gaining experience in engineering and project management for production operations in the Gulf of Mexico. She subsequently held roles with increasing responsibility throughout the organization both domestically and internationally, serving as director of ExxonMobil International Limited for Europe, Russia and the Caspian region and vice president of the Americas, Africa and Asia Pacific New Markets, to name a few.

Other inductees include Jody Singer, ’93 industrial engineering from the University of Alabama and director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; Michael Johns, ’97 mechanical engineering from the University of Alabama and vice president of the Southern Research Institute’s engineering division; and Sheila Cummings, ’95 aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland and founder, president and CEO of Cummings Aerospace.

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In August 2016, DuCharme was appointed president of ExxonMobil Global Services where she led organizations providing support in information technology, global real estate and facilities, procurement and environmental services.

She was named president of ExxonMobil Upstream Integrated Solutions (UIS) in April 2019 as part of a restructuring of ExxonMobil’s seven upstream companies to three. In this

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H A L L O F F A M E // A W A R D S role, she is responsible for setting the vision and direction of the engineering, geoscience, research and commercial centers that execute drilling operations, develop and deploy technology, provide expertise in subsurface and surface engineering and drive commercial and trading performance.

DuCharme is also responsible for skill development and deployment across the upstream, ensuring the best talent is in place to innovate, integrate and develop transformative solutions for upstream success. She serves as the executive sponsor of staffing and long term development for a global organization of more than 15,000 employees, where she is a champion for inclusion and diversity.

DuCharme is a member of 100+ Women Strong — Auburn Engineering’s program to recruit, retain and reward women in engineering — and was the keynote speaker at the program’s 2018 spring conference. She has been a longtime supporter of Auburn and established the Linda DuCharme Endowed Scholarship for students in chemical engineering in 2017.

Kenneth Kelly is a 1990 electrical engineering graduate of Auburn University who also earned his executive MBA in 1998 from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Kelly serves as the chairman and CEO of First Independence Bank, the seventh largest African-American-controlled bank in the country. Prior to leading First Independence, he held several positions at Alabama Power, Georgia Power and Southern Power leading negotiations for solar projects totaling more than $3.4 billion in partnership value. In 2012, while employed at Southern Power’s Business Development group, he negotiated Southern Power’s first $500 million solar facility in the state of California. In 2017, he retired from Southern Company after making notable contributions in engineering, industrial marketing, nonprofit leadership, corporate finance and planning, managing investments and trusts, human resources, supply chain management, and commercial and industrial sales management.

As a result of his leadership contributions and professional expertise, Kelly has been appointed to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council for a three-year term and has been appointed nationally to the FDIC’s Community Bank Advisory Committee to provide guidance to the chairwoman on policy for a two-year term. In May 2018, he was presented The Spirit of Detroit Award by the Detroit City Council.

He serves as chair of the Auburn Alumni Engineering Council and is a member of the university’s Foy and Samford societies, as well as the college’s Eagles Society. The Engineering Academic Excellence Program Reception Area in the Brown-Kopel Engineering Student Achievement Center was recently named in his honor for his support of Auburn Engineering.

David Mobley graduated from Auburn University in 1961 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and joined NASA as a test engineer working on Saturn rockets. During his career with the space agency, he worked at Marshall Space Flight Center, Kennedy Space Center, Johnson Space Center and at the Thiokol plant facility in Utah.

Early in his career, Mobley worked on the Apollo Telescope Mount, a major component of the Skylab Project and worked in Florida as part of the launch preparation team for Skylab.

In 1976, he was part of a NASA technical support team sent to Holland to work with the European Space Agency. In 1984, he was named Spacelab chief engineer.

Among his lasting achievements were brokering a peaceful and technically awe-inspiring collaboration to birth the International Space Station, one of the greatest engineering feats in human history. He worked tirelessly with the Russians to involve them with the International Space Station, which also involved agencies from Japan and Europe. His interpersonal instincts were instrumental in forging a working relationship with Russian engineers, setting a precedent for future space partnerships with Russia. His efforts to get Russia onboard an American-led design were detailed in the popular book, “Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir.” His work on the space station led to him being chosen as NASA’s chief engineer where he was the senior technical advisor to former NASA administrator Dan Goldin for all the agency’s projects.

He retired from NASA in 1996 and became chief engineer for Boeing Space and Defense Group in Huntsville before being assigned as the U.S. Lab/Hab lead. He served as chief engineer for Microgravity on a Marshall project. After retiring as chief engineer for Microgravity, he has remained active as an independent consultant providing independent management and technical reviews and systems engineering related support to NASA headquarters and Marshall programs and projects. The most current programs he supported include Gateway to the Moon, Lunar Lander, Habitat, Payloads and International Standards.

The State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame was chartered by the governor in 1987 to honor those individuals, corporations and projects associated with the state that have brought credit to the engineering profession. A total of 186 engineers, 44 projects and 32 firms have been recognized by the hall. These inductees span from border to border, across all industries, and personify the impact engineering has played on the economy, quality of life and standard of living for the people of Alabama. The Hall of Fame is overseen by engineering colleges and schools at Auburn University, Alabama A&M University, the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, Tuskegee University, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of Alabama in Huntsville and the University of South Alabama.

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LIFETIME of SERVICE

Dion Aviki

Joe Forehand

Five highly accomplished Auburn University graduates were honored in February at the Auburn Alumni Association’s 2020 Lifetime Achievement Awards.

Recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honor given by the Auburn Alumni Association, were Joe Forehand Jr., ’71 industrial engineering; William E. Barrick ’68; Jere L. Beasley Sr. ’59; and Octavia Spencer ’94. Dion Aviki, ’04 chemical engineering, was recognized as the 2020 Young Alumni Achievement Award recipient.

Joe Wallace Forehand Jr. ’71 Forehand graduated from Auburn in 1971 with a degree in industrial engineering and later earned a master’s degree from Purdue University. He served as chairman and CEO of Accenture from November 1999 through August 2004. During that time, he led the company through a split and a major global rebranding campaign, resulting in a Top 50 global brand in just four years and growing from 66,000 employees and $9.6 billion in revenue to 103,000 employees and revenue of $13.7 billion. Forehand was named chairman of the board for Accenture in February 2001, where he served until his retirement in August 2006.

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LIFETIME ACHEIVEMENT AWARD Following his retirement, Forehand served as a senior advisor with Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts, a leading global private equity firm, advising on technology buyouts and serving on the company’s portfolio committee, which was responsible for reviewing the performance of portfolio companies. He served on the board of First Data Corp., where he was a board chairman and interim CEO. He was also the chairman of the board for Aricent, a global design and engineering technology company.

Forehand is a past member of the Auburn University Foundation board and co-chaired the Because This is Auburn – A Campaign for Auburn University capital campaign that raised more than $1 billion for the university. He is currently chairman of the Auburn University Industrial and Systems Engineering Advisory Council.

Forehand was inducted into the Alabama Business Hall of Fame in 2019, the Auburn University Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame in 2018, the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity Hall of Fame in 2004, the State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame in 2001 and was named Auburn University Industrial Engineering Outstanding Alumnus in 1995.

He and his wife, Gayle ’70, reside in Dallas, Texas. They have two sons and are life members of the Auburn Alumni Association.

Dion Marlene Aviki ’04 Following her 2004 graduation with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, Aviki moved to Houston, Texas, where she held roles in sales, marketing and business development within the HVAC industry. In 2017, Aviki earned her MBA from Duke University and joined Thermo Fisher Scientific’s General Management Leadership Development Program, where she gained strategy and marketing experience across the life science, biotech and pharmaceutical industries, living in Oregon, California and Texas. In her current role as director of integration management, she leads the overall commercial integration process for a workforce that generates more than $10 billion across the global life science sector.

She is a former president of the Greater Houston Auburn club, was a founding member of the Auburn Engineering Young Alumni Council and served four years on the board of directors for the Auburn Alumni Association.

She currently serves on the Chemical Engineering Advisory Council and is a member of 100+ Women Strong in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, Engineering Eagles and the Auburn Alumni Association Circle of Excellence Society.

Aviki and her partner, Brooke Levin, reside in Dallas, Texas.

She is a life member of the Auburn Alumni Association.

CUPOLA REPORT This edition of Auburn Engineering’s Cupola Report recognizes donors who have contributed to the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering during the 2019 calendar year. Our students, faculty, leadership and staff remain grateful for the support our alumni and friends provide as we work together to fulfill our commitment to excellence in engineering through instruction and research.

Ginn Society Annual FUNDS

endowments

planned gifts

ENGINEERING EAGLES Engineering Eagles are individuals who make a gift of $1,000 or more each year to Auburn Engineering and its academic units. These gifts provide vital resources for creating and enhancing programs in which our faculty and students thrive. These donors elevate the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering to new heights and help continue the college’s tradition of excellence.

Mr. Jeffrey Scott Ackel ’99

Mr. Charles Frederick Bach ’58

Mr. Nicholas C. B. Boehm ’18

General & Mrs. Jimmie V. Adams ’57

Mr. & Mrs. James G. Bagley Jr. ’83

Dr. Richard Boehm

Mr. Kerry E. Adams ’70

Mrs. Christine Martin Baker ’93

CDR & Mrs. Bobby C. Bolt ’89

Mrs. Mary Helen Adams-Morales ’81

Mr. & Mrs. Peter W. Baljet ’91

Mr. Russell F. Boren, Sr. ’54

Mr. James T. ’71 & Mrs. Dianne B. ’71 Adkison Jr.

Mrs. Bettye Bowman Ballenger ’59

Dr. Mary K. Boudreaux & Mr. Calvin Cutshaw

Mr. & Mrs. Lewis S. Agnew Jr. ’04

Mr. James O’Neal Ballenger ’59

Mr. Charles Judson Bowers ’69

Mr. Robert S. ’73 & Mrs. Patricia P. ’74 Aicklen

Ms. Beverly Houston Banister ’83

Mr. Matthew T. Bowers

Mr. & Mrs. Charles S. Aiken Jr. ’73

Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth J. Barr ’47

Mr. William R. ’90 & Mrs. Pamela O. ’92 Boyd

Mr. Gabriel Dale Aldridge

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph F. Barth III ’71

Mr. Robert J. Brackin ’80 & Mrs. Roberta Marcantonio

Mr. John Boswell Allen ’66

Mrs. Kristie Gann Barton ’10

Mr. James Fletcher Bradford ’80

Mr. Michael R. ’82 & Mrs. Marcia J. ’82 Allen

Mr. & Mrs. Michael P. Batey ’79

Dr. David B. Bradley ’65

Dr. Abby Renee Anderson ’03

Mr. Ben Beasley ’65

Mrs. Dorothy Y. Bridges

Mr. & Mrs. J. Gregory Anderson ’88

Mr. & Mrs. Malcolm N. Beasley Sr. ’70

Mr. Reid M. Brooks ’16

Mr. John P. ’76 & Mrs. Cynthia M. ’76 Anderson

Mr. Jourdan Joseph Beaumont ’14

Mr. & Mrs. Dan H. Broughton ’63

Mr. Pete L. Anderson ’75

Mrs. Virginia Hardenbergh Beck ’60

Mr. & Mrs. David N. Brown ’62

Ms. Susan E. Anderson ’90

Ms. Rose-Gaelle Belinga ’09

Mr. John W. ’57 & Mrs. Rosemary K. ’57 Brown

Mr. David Bryant Andrews ’91

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher T. Bell ’83

Mr. William Scott Brown ’71

Mr. Thomas D. ’94 & Mrs. Aneda C. ’95 Anspach

Dr. & Mrs. Larry Benefield ’66

Mr. & Mrs. David C. Brubaker ’71

Mr. Lee Anthony

Mr. Antonio D. Benford ’99

Dr. Thomas E. ’79 & Mrs. Patti D. ’83 Burch

Mr. James C. Ard III ’83

Mr. Christopher L. ’00 & Mrs. Mary S. R. ’00 Bentley

Mr. Scott T. Burgett ’95

Mr. Don T. ’77 & Mrs. Cindy L. ’79 Arkle

Mr. William D. Benton ’79

Mr. Dennis Carlton Burkett ’69

Mr. Stephen T. ’96 & Mrs. Kathleen M. ’96 Armstrong

Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Berry Jr. ’66

Mr. Thomas D. ’58 & Mrs. Frances W. ’58 Burson

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy M. Arnold ’94

Mr. Jason Alan Beville ’96

Mr. & Mrs. Henry M. Burt Jr. ’58

Ms. Carrie Leigh Arseneaux ’98

Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Bickert ’82

Ms. Emily Burwell

Mrs. Susan Sumners Askew ’87

Dr. Charles Brock Birdsong ’18

Mr. Daniel M. Bush ’72

Mr. Dana J. Augustine

Mr. Robert Lee Bishop Jr. ’79

Mr. Donald Ray Bush ’63

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Avant ’60

Dr. William Y. Bishop ’68

Mr. Harris Donovan Bynum ’58

Mr. & Mrs. Diaco Aviki ’95

Dr. Nancy Pugh Bissinger ’73

Mr. Robert Flournoy Bynum ’75

Ms. Dion Marlene Aviki ’04

Mr. Sean M. ’16 & Mrs. Allison K. ’15 Bittner

Mr. Richard E. Cannon ’63

Mr. Manucher Azmudeh ’60

Mrs. Cynthia Louise Bliss ’07

Mr. J. Travis Capps Jr. ’94

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CUPOLA REPORT Mr. & Mrs. John P. Caraway ’92

Dr. John Marshall Croushorn ’94

Dr. John Lebron Evans ’84

Mr. James Ronald Carbine ’81

Mr. Daniel & Mrs. Ragan W. ’98 Crowell

Mrs. Marsha P. Evans

Mr. Russell L. ’83 & Mrs. Anna C. ’83 Carbine

Mr. Chris Mark Crumbly ’88

Mrs. Sharlene Reed Evans ’86

Mr. Benjamin M. ’00 & Mrs. Abby M. ’00 Carmichael

Mr. Kevin Thomas Cullinan ’09

Mrs. Angela Lynn Fanney ’04

Mrs. Betty McNeice Carroll

Mr. Andrew Reed Cunningham ’82

Mr. Norman Smith Faris, Jr. ’59

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth A. Carroll

Mr. & Mrs. Miles M. Cunningham ’85

Mrs. Elan Pardue Feagin ’86

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick T. Carroll ’87

Mr. & Mrs. David L. Curry ’61

Mrs. Linda Ann Figg ’81

Ms. Anne Lynn Casey ’98

Mr. William J. Cutts ’55

Mrs. Ruth Harris Fleetwood

Capt Paul D. Cash ’70

Dr. Klaus D. Dannenberg ’67

Mr. John N. ’85 & Mrs. Amy J. ’86 Floyd Jr.

Mr. Grant Alan Castleberry ’78

Mr. James H. ’54 & Mrs. Ida Jo O. ’54 Daughtry

Mr. Paul Stephen Fontenot ’76

Mr. & Mrs. Steven G. Cates ’85

Mr. Charles H. Davis ’58

Mr. Mark Joseph Forchette ’81

Mr. Wiley Mitchell Cauthen ’62

Mr. & Mrs. Frederick A. Davis ’72

Mr. William Mark Ford

Mr. Eric M. Cerny ’99

Dr. N. Jan Davis ’77

Mr. Samuel Hollis Fordham ’16

Mrs. Margaret King Cerny ’69

Dr. Virginia Angelica Davis

Capt & Mrs. Michael V. Forte ’82

Dr. Donald A. ’65 & Mrs. Patricia J. ’66 Chambless

Mr. & Mrs. Michael B. Deavers ’93

Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Fosdick ’74

Mr. John W. ’73 & Mrs. Fletcher H. ’83 Chambliss

Dr. & Mrs. Harry L. Deffebach Jr. ’63

CDR Jerry D. ’93 & Mrs. Constance S. ’93 Foster

Dr. Valeta Carol Chancey ’96

Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. DeMaioribus ’76

Mr. Earl R. ’71 & Mrs. Nan V. ’71 Foust

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Chandler ’80

Mr. Jason E. ’98 & Mrs. Nancy G. ’99 DeShazo

Ms. Karin Frament

Mr. & Mrs. J. Edward Chapman Jr. ’56

Mrs. Carla Marie Deyo ’09

Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Franklin ’49

Mr. & Mrs. Wheeler E. Chapman III ’83

Mr. & Mrs. James A. Dicso ’66

Mrs. Gwen S. Frazier ’87

Mr. Clarance Joseph Chappell III ’59

Mr. Derek Dwaine Dictson

LCDR & Mrs. Michael S. French ’79

Mr. & Mrs. Randall C. Chase ’85

Mr. & Mrs. Ray A. Dimit ’74

Mr. William Eugene Friel II ’73

Mr. Jonathan Franklin Childs ’94

Mrs. Amy Thomas Dobbs ’78

Mr. G. William Gallops, Jr. ’73

Ms. Rupa S. Choragudi ’95

Mr. John Thomas Donahue

CAPT Davis R. Gamble, Jr. ’74

Mr. Bradley P. Christopher ’91

Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Donnellan ’76

Mr. Kevin Benjamin Gammill ’02

Mr. Terry M. ’58 & Mrs. Anna R. ’58 Christopher

Mr. Mark Henry Donovan ’88

Mr. & Mrs. Woodrow E. Garmon ’73

Ms. Michele Candice Clark

Mr. Jerry Glenn Dooley ’81

Mr. & Mrs. Maury D. Gaston ’82

Ms. Rodmesia La’Triece Clarke ’08

Mr. Alan & Mrs. Carol H. ’84 Dorn

Mr. Sibbley Paul Gauntt ’54

Mr. & Mrs. William C. Claunch ’68

Mr. & Mrs. William G. Dorriety ’84

Mr. Charles Earley Gavin III ’59

Mr. Sherwood A. Clay ’68

Dr. & Mrs. Nathan T. Dorris ’04

Mr. Thomas G. ’77 & Mrs. Melanie R. ’80 Germany

Mr. Shawn E. ’82 & Mrs. Anne M. ’82 Cleary

Dr. Emily Ann Doucette ’06

Mr. Mohinder S. Ghuman

Dr. Prabhakar ’93 & Mrs. Sabina W. ’92 Clement

Dr. Jonathon Trace Douglas ’98

Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Gibbs ’70

Dr. Raymond A. Cocco ’89 & Dr. Susan A. Somers

Dr. Tara Spears Douglas ’97

Dr. George E. ’80 & Mrs. Gail H. ’90 Gibson Jr.

Dr. John E. ’66 & Mrs. Carol H. ’67 Cochran Jr.

Dr. Carol A. ’70 & Mr. James A. ’70 Dowdy

Mr. John Madison Giddens Jr. ’87

Mr. David W. ’81 & Mrs. Cathy H. ’82 Coggin

Mr. Joseph E. ’85 & Mrs. Susan N. ’90 Downey Jr.

Mr. Roger A. ’69 & Mrs. Mary Jo ’69 Giffin

Dr. Jo Anne H. ’75 & Mr. Terry J. ’76 Coggins

Mr. & Mrs. Brian J. Downs ’07

Mr. Timothy Gilino ’08

Mr. James C. Cole ’50

Mr. Jonathan David Driggers ’80

Mr. Michael V. Ginn

Mr. William Hitchcock Cole ’49

Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. Drummonds ’71

Dr. & Mrs. Samuel L. Ginn ’59

Dr. Jacqueline Heather Cole-Husseini ’01

Mrs. Linda D. DuCharme ’86

Mr. Thomas P. ’12 & Mrs. Curry S. ’12 Glanton

Mr. Steven Craig Compton ’76

Dr. Steve Richard Duke

LtCol & Mrs. Peter J. Glenboski, Jr. ’67

Mr. Anthony D. Conetta ’89

Mr. & Mrs. Wendell H. Duke ’73

Mrs. Gina Victoria Gloski ’82

Mr. Robert David Consoli ’85

Mr. Arthur J. Duncan III ’11

Mrs. Amanda Campbell Goad ’00

Mr. Eldridge J. Cook, Jr.

Mr. Timothy J. ’85 & Julianne E. ’82 Dwyer

Ms. Amy N. Goddard ’94

Mr. Timothy Donald Cook ’82

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald M. Dykes ’69

Mr. Gary R. ’86 & Mrs. Carol J. ’86 Godfrey

Mr. & Mrs. James L. Cooper Jr. ’81

Mr. Lewis H. ’54 & Mrs. Annette B.’53 Eberdt Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Charlie Godfrey

Mr. David S. ’80 & Mrs. Sheree F. ’81 Copeland

Dr. & Mrs. Mario R. Eden

Mr. & Mrs. Ralph B. Godfrey ’64

Ms. Lisa Ann Copeland ’85

Mr. Joe D. ’70 & Mrs. Jayne W. ’71 Edge

Mr. Shane Goodwin ’00

Mrs. Patricia G. Corbitt

Mr. Charles Ray Edmondson

CDR Vernon C. Gordon ’68

Mr. Bradley William Corson ’83

Mr. Andrew Keith Edwards ’97

Mr. M. James ’84 & Mrs. Alison M. ’84 Gorrie II

Mr. Vincent R. ’84 & Mrs. Stacey S. ’92 Costanza

Mr. C. Houston ’77 & Mrs. Mary E. ’77 Elkins Jr.

Mr. M. Miller ’57 & Mrs. Frances G. ’59 Gorrie

Mr. & Mrs. Frank V. Couch III ’80

Mrs. Celia Ellis

Mr. Wayne M. Granade ’69

Mr. & Mrs. Samuel S. Coursen Jr. ’73

Mr. Donald B. Ellis ’61

Mr. David M. ’93 & Mrs. Susan B. ’92 Gray

Mr. Harry G. ’64 & Mrs. Nell S. ’67 Craft Jr.

Mr. H. Wendell Ellis ’67

Mr. & Mrs. Gary W. Gray ’69

Ms. Lynn Sinopole Craft ’05

Mr. Kyle N. ’81 & Mrs. Beverly E. ’78 Ellison Jr.

Mr. Perry Allen Greathouse ’83

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas R. Craig ’90

Mr. Bruce William Evans ’86

Mr. & Mrs. Ruskin C. Green ’91

Mrs. Barbara Ann Adkins Crane

Mr. Corey Ryan Evans ’02

Mr. Walter Wanzel Griffin ’47

Mr. & Mrs. Wayne J. Crews ’60

Mr. James R. Evans ’55

Mr. & Mrs. Gordon H. Griffith ’57

Dr. James H. Cross II

Mr. Jim W. Evans ’67

Mrs. Linda Vanstrum Griggs ’75

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CUPOLA REPORT Dr. Laura Alan Grostick ’03

Mr. Steven D. ’71 & Mrs. Lynn J. ’79 Horne

Mr. Bradley S. ’82 & Mrs. Margaret B. ’83 Kitterman

Mrs. Antoria Arnold Guerrier ’00

Mr. John S. ’75 & Mrs. Virginia C. ’80 Hornsby

Mr. & Mrs. Ryan K. Knight ’00

Mrs. Erica Moore Guffie ’05

Mrs. Sara Anne Hough ’03

Mrs. Margaret Lowry Knox ’82

Mr. Mark A. ’94 & Mrs. Leah S. ’93 Gulley

Mr. Metrick M. Houser ’93

Mr. Ashley D. ’98 & Mrs. Stephanie C. ’98 Koby

Ms. Ann Rebecca Guthrie ’89

Judge Albert O. ’60 & Mrs. Melanie P. ’86

Mr. Mark Anthony Kolasinski ’82

Mrs. Jean Guthrie

Mr. Daniel Todd Konkle ’87

Mr. Robert O. ’83 & Mrs. Margaret F. ’83 Haack Jr.

Dr. Wen-Chiang Huang ’01

Mr. Christopher J. ’94 & Mrs. Mary H. ’93 Kramer

Mr. Keith Shellie Hagler ’98

Dr. Teresa Hubscher-Younger ’02

Mrs. Julie Sanderson Kravec ’81

Ms. Shannon Haines ’09

Mr. & Mrs. T. Preston Huddleston Jr. ’57

Mr. Frederick D. Kuester ’73

Mr. & Mrs. William G. Hairston III ’67

Ms. Auburn Elizabeth Hudgins ’07

Mr. Thomas D. ’75 & Mrs. Barbara B. ’75 Lampkin

Mr. & Mrs. Holbert L. Hale Jr. ’64

Mr. Tyce Frederick Hudson ’98

Mr. Robert Eugene Lang ’77

Mr. Jason Leigh Halsell ’93

Mr. James G. Hughes Sr. ’56

Mr. Michael Todd Lanier ’15

Mr. J. Robert Hamill ’70

Dr. Mary Leigh Hughes ’86

Mr. & Mrs. Scott E. Larson, Sr.

Mr. David A. Hamilton ’67

Dr. John Mack Huie ’60

Dr. & Mrs. Terry E. Lawler ’68

Mr. & Mrs. Johnnie M. Hamilton ’68

Mr. & Mrs. Jackson L. Hulsey ’64

Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Lawley ’04

Dr. Phillip G. ’02 & Mrs. Crystal C. ’02 Hamilton Jr.

Mr. James A. ’70 & Mrs. Michele A. ’71 Humphrey

Mr. Thomas W. ’63 & Mrs. Diane S. ’63 Lawrence Jr.

Mr. Nathan L. ’03 & Mrs. Laura Q. ’03 Hanks

Dr. Jacqueline H. Hundley ’74

Mr. & Mrs. Kyle C. Leach ’83

Mr. & Mrs. Nelson L. Hanks ’75

Dr. Judy J. & Mr. Brian H. ’90 Hunt

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Leach

Dr. Alan M. Hanley ’16

Mrs. Stephanie Greco Hunt ’78

Mr. & Mrs. Creighton C. Lee ’47

Mr. Thomas Jeffrey Hanley ’08

Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Hutchinson ’08

Mrs. Deanna Monahan Lee ’95

Dr. Thomas R. Hanley

Dr. J. David ’61 & Mrs. Patricia W. ’61 Irwin

Mr. Jason Max Lee ’00

Mr. Walter L. Hannum ’56

Mr. Robert A. Jackson Jr. ’82

Ms. Nelda K. Lee ’69

Dr. Andrew Palmer Hanson ’93

Mr. Charles M. ’56 & Mrs. Rosemary S. ’57 Jager

Mr. & Mrs. Steven M. Lee ’73

Mr. Leon L. ’70 & Mrs. Rheba M. ’69 Hardin

Mr. William R. James ’69 & Mrs. Brenda M. Tanner

Mr. John Claude L’Engle ’56

Mr. George C. ’76 & Mrs. Marsha Q. ’76 Hardison Jr.

Mr. John Robert Jay

Mr. & Mrs. Joe B. Leonard Jr. ’67

Mrs. Kay Upton Harlow ’81

Mr. & Mrs. Carl M. Jeffcoat ’60

Mr. Gregory C. ’79 & Mrs. Susan W. ’78 Lester

Mr. Oscar C. ’89 & Mrs. Patricia S. ’90 Harper IV

Mr. Stuart Blakely Jeffcoat ’98

Mr. Daniel S. ’06 & Mrs. Jessica L. ’06 Levis

Mr. Jeffrey Curtis Harris ’87

Mr. & Mrs. Walter B. Jeffcoat ’70

Dr. & Mrs. Ying-Hsin A. Liou ’84

Mr. Lamar T. ’63 & Mrs. Elaine T. ’62 Hawkins

Mr. & Mrs. Michael D. Johns

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald C. Lipham ’74

Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence A. Hawkins ’81

Mr. Bobby Joe Johnson ’62

Mr. James Brawner Little III ’84

Mr. Albert E. Hay ’67

Mr. Darren K. ’11 & Mrs. Elizabeth H. ’11 Johnson

Mr. Stephen Jager Livingston ’10

Ms. Karen Hayes ’81

Mr. Herbie Neeley Johnson ’94

Mr. & Mrs. William B. Locke ’63

Mr. James & Mrs. B. Lynn ’83 Hecathorn

Mr. J Edwin Johnson ’71

Mr. Edward Charles Long ’89

Mr. Jim P. ’94 & Mrs. Markell A. ’96 Heilbron

Mr. J. Sam ’75 & Mrs. Patricia D. ’75 Johnson Jr.

Mr. Rodney Lon Long ’76

Mr. John P. Helmick, Jr. ’56

Mr. John Borge Johnson II ’10

Mr. Lum M. Loo ’78

Mr. & Mrs. Roger R. Hemminghaus ’58

Mrs. Mary Schambeau Johnson ’10

Mr. William A. ’79 & Mrs. Virginia G. ’80 Lovell Jr.

Mr. James P. ’69 & Mrs. Linda M. ’69 Henderson

Dr. & Mrs. Pierce Johnson Jr. ’69

Mr. & Mrs. Nance C. Lovvorn ’62

Drs. Alton S. Hendon ’89

Mr. & Mrs. John K. Jones ’59

Mr. Raymond Elliott Loyd ’61

Mrs. Judy J. Hendrick

Mr. & Mrs. Joshua D. Jones ’06

Ms. Angela Marie Luckie ’91

Mr. & Mrs. Michael T. Hendrick ’93

Dr. Peter D. Jones

Mr. & Mrs. Christian T. Lund ’15

Mr. John Steele Henley II ’63

Dr. Bill ’89 & Dr. Eleanor C. ’88 Josephson

Mr. Frank Alex Luttrell III ’83

Ms. Melissa Herkt ’77

Mr. Robert R. ’63 & Mrs. Donna V. ’66 Keith Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Fred W. Mace ’57

Mrs. Sharon Weidner Hickman ’92

Mr. Andrew S. ’03 & Mrs. Shelley H. ’03 Kelley

Mr. John A. ’72 & Mrs. Anne W. ’73 MacFarlane

Ms. Leigh Michele Higby ’18

Mr. David A. Kelley ’71

Mr. Jared Lee Madewell ’94

Mr. Patrick D. ’81 & Mrs. Nancy Y. ’80 Higginbotham

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Kelly ’90

Mr. & Mrs. Ray A. Madison ’88

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Higgins ’70

Mr. Reginald Wayne Kemp ’62

Mr. & Mrs. Steven N. Malone ’02

Mrs. Margaret M. Hightower ’87

Gen Leslie Farr Kenne ’70

Mr. Paul M. Manning Sr. ’69

Mr. Dennis S. ’79 & Mrs. Ann R. ’77 Hill

Mr. & Mrs. Kirby K. Key ’57

Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. Manson ’58

Mr. Ryan S. ’08 & Mrs. Jill F. ’08 Hill

Mr. Michael T. ’15 & Mrs. Kelly E. ’14 Keyser

Mr. Salvador M. ’91 & Mrs. Paula M. ’92 Marino

Mr. Ray W. Hiltbrand ’93

Mr. Sidney S. Keywood Jr. ’70

Mr. Charles A. Marsh ’01

Mr. David W. ’05 & Mrs. Andrea T. ’05 Hodo

Mrs. Laura Clenney Kezar ’08

Mr. Joel W. Marsh ’62

Mr. Stats J. Hogeland ’17

Mr. & Mrs. James E. Kiel ’69

LCDR Clifton C. ’74 & Mrs. Mary R. ’74 Martin Jr.

Mr. Duriel Ramon Holley ’03

Mr. Lester ’68 & Mrs. Catherine V. ’69 Killebrew Sr.

Mr. Gary Clements Martin ’57

Mr. James Monroe Holley IV ’75

Dr. Oliver D. Kingsley Jr. ’66

Mr. James P. ’78 & Mrs. Pamela P. ’79 Martin

Mr. James Philip Hollway ’79

Mrs. Kimbra Kircher

Mr. Colton R. Martinez ’15

Mr. & Mrs. Michael D. Holmes ’86

Mr. James Paul Kirkland, Sr. ’61

Mr. Cary Lynn Matthews ’90

Mr. Randall Cory Hopkins ’91

Mr. Ronald W. ’68 & Mrs. Susan T. ’68 Kirkland

Mr. David Austin Mattox ’05

Mr. Kenneth C. Horne ’84

Ms. Katie Kirkpatrick ’95

Mr. J. Wayne Maxey ’65

Howard Jr.

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CUPOLA REPORT Mr. Patrick Clay Mays ’08

Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Mueller ’85

Dr. H. Vincent Poor ’72

Ms. Forrest Worthy McCartney

Mr. Thomas Mullany ’81

Mr. & Mrs. Gary W. Popwell ’61

Mr. Andrew M. McCay ’05

Mr. & Mrs. Penn E. Mullowney Jr. ’65

Mr. & Mrs. Jack B. Porterfield III ’75

Mr. Kevin Michael McClain ’93

Mr. & Mrs. Charles G. Munden Jr. ’77

Mr. Leslie H. Porterfield ’79

Mr. David E. ’01 & Mrs. Sherry C. ’01 McClure

Ms. Jeanne B. Munz

Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Porterfield ’88

Ms. Julia Zekoll McClure ’68

Mr. Scott E. Murff ’92

Mr. Patrick Eugene Pride ’82

Mr. & Mrs. John B. McCracken ’08

Mr. David E. ’87 & Mrs. Kelli M. ’86 Murphy

Mr. Robert Lyons Prince ’69

Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. McCrary ’73

Mr. & Mrs. Scott B. Murray ’69

Mr. John D. ’90 & Mrs. Lisa C. ’88 Prunkl

Mrs. Kelli McNeilly McCullough ’03

Mr. Vernon C. Murray ’63

Mr. & Mrs. David I. Rach ’69

Mr. & Mrs. James H. McDaniel ’68

Mr. Bryan D. ’08 & Mrs. Jennifer C. ’08 Myers

Mr. Roger J. Rader ’66

Mr. David L. McDonald ’87

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Nagel ’85

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Raispis ’82

Mr. & Mrs. Albert F. McFadden Jr. ’81

Mr. Michael L. ’76 & Mrs. Kathy F. ’75 Neighbors

Mr. Murty Polapragada Raju ’92

Mr. Jason ’02 & Mrs. Sara F. ’03 McFarland

Dr. Robert Mark Nelms ’80

Dr. Polapragada K. Raju

Mr. & Mrs. Jim W. McGaha ’66

Mr. J. C. Nelson ’50

Ven Raju

Mr. & Mrs. George L. McGlamery ’86

Mr. & Mrs. Wayne B. Nelson III ’76

Mrs. Ashley Thompson Ramage ’99

Dr. & Mrs. Gerald G. McGlamery Jr. ’84

Mr. Fred F. Newman III ’81

Mrs. Denise Sandlin Raper ’92

Mr. David C. McIlvaine ’93

Mr. & Mrs. William K. Newman ’69

Mr. & Mrs. James L. Rayburn ’67

Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. McIntyre ’92

Mr. David Draper Newton ’86

Mr. Stephen Kemper Reaves ’88

Mr. John M. McKenzie ’50

Mr. W. Russell Newton ’65

Mr. William J. ’57 & Mrs. Emily T. ’58 Reaves

Mr. Kevin & Mrs. Carter M. ’11 McKeon

Mr. Huan D. Nguyen ’87

Mr. David Barry Reed ’84

Mr. Michael Alexander McKown ’76

Mr. Karl Richard Nichol ’82

Mr. & Mrs. William B. Reed ’50

Mrs. Chelsea Harrison McMeen ’13

Mr. Jason A. ’98 & Mrs. Lisa J. ’97 Nichols

Mr. Wilmer Handy Reed III ’48

Mr. James D. ’61 & Mrs. Paula S. ’65 McMillan

Mr. Jack Dempsey Noah ’59

Mrs. Bonnie Lewis Reedy ’13

Mr. & Mrs. Joe McMillan ’58

Mr. James D. ’92 & Mrs. Andrea B. ’90 Noland

Mr. & Mrs. Carl A. Register ’63

Mr. & Mrs. William R. McNair ’68

Mr. William B. ’75 & Mrs. Lori D. ’78 Norton

Mr. John R. ’70 & Mrs. Shirley K. ’70 Reynolds

Mr. John F. Meagher Jr. ’49

Mrs. Catherine Novak

Mrs. Peggy Reynolds

Dr. Russell D. Meller

Mr. Andrzej S. Nowak

Ms. Debbie Rice

Mr. James Bruce Melton ’76

Mr. Warren Nickolas Nunn ’93

Mr. & Mrs. Harry G. Rice ’77

Mr. & Mrs. George A. Menendez ’70

Mr. & Mrs. Guy E. O’Connor ’85

Dr. Stefanie L. ’06 & Mr. David B. ’04 Riddle

Mr. & Mrs. D. L. Merrill Jr. ’65

Mr. Michael Joseph O’Connor ’87

Mr. Andrew J. ’10 & Mrs. Laura G. ’10 Riley

Mr. Morris G. Middleton ’61

Mr. & Mrs. James B. Odom ’55

Dr. & Mrs. Christopher Brian Roberts

Mr. Joseph A. ’83 & Mrs. Donna J. ’84 Miller

Mrs. Denise Woods Oliver ’86

Mr. & Mrs. Gary M. Roberts ’80

Mr. Mark S. ’84 & Mrs. Toni E. ’85 Miller

Mr. James P. Orr

Mr. Richard Y. ’73 & Mrs. Peggy F. ’74 Roberts

Mr. & Mrs. Richard R. Miller ’78

Mr. & Mrs. James M. Orrison ’85

Mr. Jeffery R. ’01 & Mrs. Ashley N. ’01 Robinett

Mrs. Natalie G. Mills ’10

Mr. & Mrs. Steve P. Osburne ’65

Ms. Casey W. Robinson ’00

Mr. J. Kevin ’79 & Mrs. Katherine M. ’81 Mims

Mr. Wynton R. ’59 & Mrs. Charlotte W. ’60

Mr. Eugene Robinson ’03

Ms. Sarah Grace Mitchell ’17

Overstreet

Mr. Kenneth W. ’81 & Mrs. Cathy M. ’81 Robuck

Mrs. Ila S. Mitchum

Mr. C. Glenn Owen Jr. ’70

Mrs. Karen Harris Rowell ’79

Mr. Wesley S. ’94 & Mrs. Jennifer F. ’96 Mize

Mr. David K. ’77 & Mrs. Olivia K. ’77 Owen

Mr. Michael A. ’81 & Mrs. Stacy N. ’82 Rowland

Mr. & Mrs. Max A. Mobley ’72

Mr. & Mrs. Wayne B. Owens ’64

Mr. Joe W. Ruffer ’64

Mr. & Mrs. William L. Moench Jr. ’76

Mr. William S. Pace Jr. ’75

Mr. Anthony John Rukavina

Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence J. Montgomery III

Mr. Trace Duane Parish ’86

Dr. John H. Russell ’72

Dr. Larry S. Monroe ’79 & Mrs. Cynthia C. Green ’79

Mr. John S. ’55 & Mrs. Constance G. ’55 Parke

Dr. Stephen Allen Russell ’97

Mr. & Mrs. Charles N. Moody ’63

Mrs. Cari Jo Parker ’87

Mrs. Sarah Perry Rutowski ’14

Mr. F. Brooks Moore ’48

Dr. Harvey Weston Parker III ’57

Mrs. Linda Patterson Ryan ’82

Mr. Jonathan Lathram Moore ’05

Mr. James Y. ’70 & Mrs. Susan J. ’70 Parker

Ms. Betty Ann Ryberg ’84

Mrs. Mary Manson Moore ’83

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry D. Parker Jr. ’79

Mr. William A. Samuel ’75

Mr. Steven D. ’84 & Mrs. Jennifer G. ’85 Moore

Mr. Robert A. ’84 & Mrs. Susan S. ’84 Parker

Mr. Christopher R. Sanders ’84

Mrs. Christina K. Moorman ’97

Mr. & Mrs. Earl B. Parsons Jr. ’60

Mr. J. Glen ’87 & Mrs. Amy A. ’88 Sanders III

Dr. & Mrs. Joe M. Morgan

Mr. James Matthew Parsons ’07

Ms. Regenia Rena Sanders ’95

Mr. Larry J. Morgan ’68

Mr. & Mrs. Kevin A. Partridge ’87

Ms. Terry Mcleod Sanderson

Mr. & Mrs. M. John Morgan ’71

Mr. & Mrs. John A. Patton Sr. ’85

Ms. Martha Jane Sarratt ’13

Mr. Michael Lynn Morris ’98

Mr. Philip Carroll Pelfrey ’87

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Saunders Sr. ’62

Ms. Rachel Moss ’96

Mr. Jimmy R. Pemberton ’58

Dr. Melinda Rixey Sava ’01

Mr. David R. Motes ’77

Mr. & Mrs. Hal N. Pennington ’59

Mr. C. David ’65 & Mrs. Murriel W. ’65 Scarborough

Mr. Terry Wayne Motes ’75

Col William Wright Petit ’89

Mr. Robert A. ’91 & Mrs. Carol W. ’91 Schaffeld III

Mr. Kennith Craig Moushegian ’92

Mr. Randall A. ’86 & Mrs. Cynthia W. ’80 Pinkston

Mr. Gary L. ’78 & Mrs. Susan N. ’79 Schatz

Mrs. Michelle Fowler Mozena ’95

Mr. Henry W. Poellnitz III ’78

Mr. Johannes W. ’11 & Mrs. Saori ’10 Schmal

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CUPOLA REPORT Mr. Taylor C. Schmidt ’11

Mrs. Susan Mathisen Steele ’74

Mr. James D. Wadsworth ’72

Ms. Claire Elizabeth Schrantz ’06

Mr. Rodney Chapman Steffens ’73

Mr. Charles S. Wagner

Mr. Ryan Michael Schulz ’01

Mr. David C. ’00 & Mrs. Mindy A. ’01 Stejskal

Mr. Casey H. ’96 & Mrs. Shannon H. ’94 Waid

Dr. Peter Schwartz

Ms. Amendi P. Stephens ’01

Mr. Brad Walker

Mr. Robert H. Scott ’71

Mr. Johnnie D. Stewart ’62

Mr. & Mrs. James N. Walker ’06

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Scott Jr.

Mr. John Monro Stickney ’64

Mr. Kenneth B. ’71 & Mrs. Judith B. ’73 Walkley

Mr. Tim & Mrs. Lori L. ’90 Self

CDR Norman Daniel Stiegler, Jr. ’85

Mrs. Erica Brook Walsh ’98

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Senkbeil ’71

Dr. Linda J. ’79 & Mr. Jeffrey I. ’79 Stone

Mr. John T. ’55 & Mrs. Jean H. ’57 Walter Jr.

Mr. William Bart Sessions ’58

Mr. & Mrs. William B. Stone II ’85

Mr. George Russell Walton ’80

Mr. Charles Robert Sewell ’86

Mr. Benjamin Preston Straub ’13

Mr. & Mrs. David Charles Wang

Mrs. Katherine E. Shafer ’05

Mrs. Charles L. Strickland

Mr. & Mrs. William E. Warnock Jr. ’74

Mr. Andrew J. Sharp Jr. ’72

Mrs. Kara L. Strickland ’99

Mr. Conner ’67 & Mrs. Dorothy ’69 Warren

Mr. Auston Andrew Shaw ’96

Mr. Thomas D. ’65 & Mrs. Marianne M. ’65

Mr. Robert M. ’71 & Mrs. Linda B. ’70 Waters

Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Shaw ’86

Stringfellow

Mr. Harry W. Watkins Jr. ’57

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Shaw ’84

Dr. Paul Cavert Stumb ’82

Mr. & Mrs. John H. Watson ’60

Dr. Jing Shen ’96

Dr. Jeffrey C. Suhling

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph D. Weatherford ’71

Mr. Donald ’67 & Mrs. Gail M. ’67 Shepherd

Mr. David C. ’79 & Mrs. Kathleen ’79 Sulkis

Dr. & Mrs. Glenn D. Weathers ’65

Mr. & Mrs. Michael H. Sherer

Ms. Betty Moore Summerlin

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Weathers ’96

Dr. Charles H. ’75 & Mrs. Alisa W. ’75 Shivers

Mr. & Mrs. William R. Summers Jr. ’83

Mr. Russell L. Weaver ’62

Mr. David Jay Shuckerow ’15

Mrs. Jennifer Swinson

Capt & Mrs. William S. Weeks ’73

Mr. Derrick ’92 & Mrs. Patsy ’98 Sikes

Mr. Michael Kevin Swinson ’85

Mr. Erich Jarvis Weishaupt ’97

Mrs. Margaret Sizemore

Mr. Stephen K. ’81 & Mrs. Virginia P. ’80 Swinson

Dr. Bryan Joseph Wells ’01

Mr. John H. ’70 & Mrs. Jacquelyn D. ’69 Sligh

Dr. Thomas F. ’52 & Mrs. Donna K. ’57 Talbot

Mr. James Wade Wesson ’73

Mrs. Jenny Elizabeth Slight ’08

Mr. & Mrs. George H. Talley II ’91

Mr. Gary L. ’74 & Mrs. Kathy A. ’76 West

Mr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Slotkin ’68

Mr. Glenn E. Taylor

Dr. Randy C. ’87 & Mrs. Ronda V. ’85 West

Mr. David Slovensky ’71

Mr. John Albert Taylor ’53

Mr. William H. ’55 & Mrs. Margaret R. ’56 Whitaker Jr.

Mr. Albert James Smith Jr. ’47

Mr. Michael F. ’73 & Mrs. Ellen F. ’72 Templeton

Col & Mrs. James R. Whitley Jr. ’61

Mr. Austin E. Smith ’10

Mr. Jordon W. ’10 & Mrs. Meghan O. ’08 Tench

Mr. Mark Alan Whitt ’05

Mrs. Brenda Jenkins Smith ’95

Mr. & Mrs. Norman E. Tew ’82

Mr. Dwight L. Wiggins Jr. ’62

Mr. James K. Smith III ’69

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry F. Thomas ’63

Mr. & Mrs. Garris D. Wilcox ’95

Dr. Jeffrey S. ’86 & Mrs. Kristi T. ’85 Smith

Mr. John Wesley Thomas ’60

Dr. William Jean Wilhelm ’58

Mr. & Mrs. Jerard T. Smith ’97

Mr. K-Rob ’01 & Mrs. Marcia L. ’01 Thomas

LTC Ralph C. Wilkinson ’57

Mr. John R. ’96 & Mrs. Deborah M. ’92 Smith

Mrs. Julia Jones Thompson ’87

Mr. Andre J. ’00 & Mrs. Cameka S. ’01 Williams

Mrs. Karen Susan Smith

Mr. Scott Randall Todd ’94

Mr. Andrew Payson Williams ’18

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth A. Smith ’81

Mr. William A. Tomb ’73

Mr. Ken C. ’79 & Mrs. Deborah A. ’79 Williams

Mr. Kenneth L. Smith Jr. ’78

Mr. Arthur Tonsmeire III ’65

Ms. LaRae Williams

Mr. & Mrs. Randy L. Smith ’76

Mr. William McClain Towery ’03

Mrs. Monika H. Williams ’97

Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Smith ’64

Ms. Karen Louise Trapane ’82

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Williams ’87’

Mr. Stephen L. ’75 & Mrs. Judith R. ’74 Smith

Mr. J Frank Travis ’59

Mr. Trent Edward Williams ’03

Mr. Timothy Scot Smith ’91

Mrs. Emily Wood Traylor ’10

Capt James Melton Willis ’84

Mr. William J. ’67 & Mrs. Susan C. ’70 Smith

Mr. Daniel A. ’78 & Mrs. Mical A. ’80 Traynor

Mr. & Mrs. Clyde E. Wills Jr. ’68

Mr. & Mrs. Zeke W. L. Smith ’82

Dr. Michael L. ’57 & Mrs. Dede D. ’60 Tuggle Sr.

Mr. Brock M. ’09 & Mrs. Laura A. ’09 Wilson

Mr. Walter John Smola II ’07

Mrs. Laura Crowe Turley ’87

Mr. Charles A. ’96 & Mrs. Elizabeth B. ’97 Wilson

Mr. John A. ’70 & Mrs. Melanie W. ’70 Smyth Jr.

Mr. Dwight J. Turner ’79

Mr. Donald G. Wilson ’58

Mr. N. Oliver ’66 & Mrs. Jean S. ’70 Smyth III

Mr. Hugh Ed Turner ’61

Mr. Michael B. Wimberly ’76

Dr. Ryan A. ’09 & Mrs. Holly H. ’03 Sothen

Mr. & Mrs. Dewitt Uptagrafft ’72

Mrs. Jennifer Hall Winn ’05

Mr. Michael Anthony Soutullo ’80

Mr. George E. ’54 & Mrs. Dorothy S. ’54 Uthlaut

Mr. & Mrs. Walter S. Woltosz ’69

Mr. Steven E. ’87 & Julie P. ’87 Speaks

Mr. Hans F. ’76 & Mrs. Margie L. ’75 VanBrackle

Mr. William B. M. Womack ’75

Mr. Cecil C. Spear Jr. ’57

Mr. Mark David Vanstrum ’79

Ms. Denise Dale Wood ’80

Mr. Mark A. Spencer ’00

Mr. Michael J. ’78 & Mrs. Janet W. ’78 Varagona

Mr. Douglas Jeffrey Wood ’84

Dr. Samia I. Spencer

Mrs. Maryanne M. Vaughan ’83

Mrs. Laurie Hayden Wood

Ms. Jane Kathleen Spinks ’08

Mr. & Mrs. David T. Veal ’91

Mr. Gary E. ’62 & Mrs. Elizbaeth N. ’76 Woodham

Mr. Donald Wade Spivey ’90

Mr. & Mrs. John E. Vick ’62

Dr. Chwan-Hwa Wu

Mr. & Mrs. Reggie A. Spivey ’87

Mr. Ray Jarrell Vinson ’63

Mrs. Gloria Wynn

Mr. Michael G. ’89 & Mrs. Kimberly B. ’89 Spoor

Mr. & Mrs. Nathan T. Vogt ’02

Mr. Robert Harrison Wynne Jr. ’68

Mr. Charles Chris Spraggins ’80

Mr. William Carl Voigt III ’87

Mr. Duane D. ’76 & Mrs. Happy S. ’78 York

Mr. Larry Dale Stamps ’57

Mr. Walter Karl Vollberg ’73

Mr. Scott Alan Yost ’82

Mrs. Barbara Lynn Staples ’82

Col James S. ’72 & Dr. Suzan C. ’71 Voss

Mr. & Mrs. Philip S. Zettler ’61

Mr. & Mrs. James L. Starr ’71

Mr. & Mrs. Ira C. Waddey Jr. ’65

Dr. Xinyu Zhang

Mrs. Jacqueline Guthrie Steele ’78

Mr. Richard Turner Wade ’69

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CUPOLA REPORT ANNUAL FUNDS Many Auburn Engineering donors choose to make annual gifts each year in support of students, faculty and ongoing college operations.

These funds take the shape of scholarships, fellowships, departmental support and Funds for Excellence. Unlike endowments, these funds are given each year and are not maintained by principal or earnings. We would like to recognize those who established Annual Funds during the calendar year 2019.

100+ Women Strong Transfer Student Annual Scholarship

Honda Manufacturing of Alabama, LLC Annual Fellowship

David W. Brooks Annual Scholarship

Industrial Oils Unlimited Annual Scholarship

Brad Corson Annual Fund for Excellence

Raymond & Eleanor Loyd Annual Dean’s Scholarship

Kevin & Marie Gammill Annual Scholarship

Carl & Mary Martin Annual Scholarship

Jim & Lynn Hecathorn Annual Scholarship

Russell ‘War Lion’ Annual Scholarship

ENDOWED FUNDS Endowments are gifts that provide Auburn Engineering perpetual income and are essential for the long-term security and growth of the college. The Auburn University Foundation invests the principal of the endowed fund and the allocated income is used to support programs and initiatives designated by the donor. The following were established in 2019: 2019 Chemical Engineering Leave a Legacy Endowed Scholarship

Roger & Dot Hemminghaus Endowed Scholarship

Alabama Textile Education Foundation Endowed Fund for Excellence

Thomas A. Hereford Jr. Endowed Scholarship

James & Bettye Ballenger Endowed Fund for Excellence

Hoar Construction Endowed Scholarship

Robert & Lisa Bickert Endowed Scholarship

James & Karen Killian Cupola Engineering Ambassador Endowed Scholarship

Robert L. & Sara A. Bishop Endowed Scholarship

Bud Kuester Endowed Scholarship

Sean & Allison Bittner Endowed Scholarship

Laxmi & Dr. P.K. Raju Family Endowed Scholarship in Mechanical Engineering

Robert & Lelia Boggan Endowed Scholarship

Leach Family Endowed Scholarship

Bobby & Kim Bolt Endowed Scholarship

Jill Savage Prettyman-Lukoschek & Rainer Lukoschek Endowed Fund

Patrick L. Byrne Endowed Fund for Excellence

John Clopton Endowed Scholarship

John A. & Anne W. MacFarlane Endowed Cupola Scholarship

Joe Dixon & Jayne Webster Edge Endowed Scholarship

John & Anne MacFarlane Endowed Distinguished Professorship

For the Betterment of Civil Engineering Endowed Scholarship

Bill & Lana McNair Auburn Creed Endowed Scholarship

Thomas M. Frassrand & Claudia J. Cola Endowed Scholarship

Jennifer Morgan Nichols Endowed Scholarship

Gwen & Matthew Frazier Endowed Scholarship

Office of Development Endowed Scholarship

Captain Davis R. Gamble Jr. Endowed Scholarship

Parker Family Engineering Endowed Scholarship

Giddens/Shaw Electrical Engineering Endowed Scholarship

John & Becky Patton Endowed Scholarship

Gary & Carol Godfrey Endowed Scholarship

Denise Sandlin Raper Endowed Scholarship

Dunk Hale Endowed Scholarship

Gary L. & Susan Nelson Schatz Endowed Scholarship

Hamilton Family Endowed Scholarship

Dr. & Mrs. Frank Swinson Family Endowed Scholarship

Albert E. Hay Endowed Fund for Excellence

James D. Wadsworth Endowed Scholarship

for Excellence

GINN SOCIETY Auburn Engineering’s Ginn Society is named for the visionary and philanthropic leadership of Samuel L. Ginn, a 1959 industrial management graduate and the college’s namesake. The Ginn Society acknowledges cumulative gifts of $25,000 or more to the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.

Mr. Joseph W. Ackerman ’60

Mr. & Mrs. Diaco Aviki ’95

Ms. Leslee Belluchie ’83 & Mr. Rick Knop

Gen. & Mrs. Jimmie Adams ’57

Mr. & Mrs. Manucher Azmudeh ’60

Dr. & Mrs. Larry Benefield ’66

Mr. James T. ’71 & Mrs. Dianne B. ’71 Adkison Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. James G. Bagley, Jr. ’83

Dr. William Y. Bishop ’68

Mr. & Mrs. Lewis S. Agnew Jr. ’04

Mr. James O. ’59 & Mrs. Bettye B. ’59 Ballenger

Dr. Nancy Pugh Bissinger ’73

Mr. Robert S. ’73 & Mrs. Patricia P. ’74 Aicklen

Mrs. Wanda Barnes

Mr. Sean M. ’16 & Mrs. Allison K. ’15 Bittner

Ms. Barbara Allison

Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth J. Barr ’47

Dr. Richard & Dr. Denise B. ’80 Boehm

Mr. John P. ’76 & Mrs. Cynthia M. ’76 Anderson

Mrs. Agnes B. Barrett

Mr. Robert L. ’59 & Mrs. Lelia B. ’59 Boggan Jr.

Mr. Pete L. & Anderson ’75

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph F. Barth III ’71

Mr. Russell F. Boren, Sr. ’54

Mr. Thomas D. ’94 & Mrs. Aneda C. ’95 Anspach

Mr. & Mrs. M. Patrick Batey ’79

Mr. Charles Judson Bowers ’69

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy M. Arnold ’94

Mrs. Virginia Hardenbergh Beck ’60

Mrs. Marilyn L. Box

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Avant ’60

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher T. Bell ’83

Mr. William R. ’90 & Mrs. Pamela O. ’92 Boyd

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CUPOLA REPORT Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Brackin ’80

BG Robert L. ’74 & Mrs. Barbara B. ’72 Davis

Mr. & Mrs. Holbert L. Hale Jr. ’64

Mrs. Shirley A. Bradford

Mr. & Mrs. James Dean ’82

Mr. J. Robert Hamill ’70

Dr. David B. Bradley ’65

Dr. & Mrs. Harry L. Deffebach Jr. ’63

Mr. & Mrs. David A. Hamilton ’67

Mr. J. B. Braswell

Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. DeMaioribus ’76

Mr. & Mrs. Johnnie M. Hamilton ’68

Mr. John R. Bray ’57

Mr. Donald Eugene Dennis ’54

Mr. Frank A. & Mrs. Lauren F. ’90 Hamner

Dr. & Mrs. Daniel F. Breeden ’57

Mr. Joseph G. & Mrs. Amy T. ’78 Dobbs

Mr. & Mrs.* William R. Hanlein ’47

Mr. Felix C. ’73 & Mrs. Gail W. ’76 Brendle Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Donnellan ’76

Dr. & Mrs. Andrew P. Hanson ’93

Mrs. Dorothy Y. Bridges

Mr. Alan & Mrs. Carol H. ’84 Dorn

Mr. George C. ’76 & Mrs. Marsha Q. ’76 Hardison Jr.

Mr. Dan H. Broughton ’63

Mr. Melvin L. ’77 & Mrs. Diane R. ’77 Drake Jr.

Mr. Oscar C. ’89 & Mrs. Patricia S. ’90 Harper IV

Mr. John W. ’57 & Mrs. Rosemary Kopel ’57 Brown

Mrs. Linda D. DuCharme ’86

Mrs. Glenda Steele Harris ’61

Mr. & Mrs. L. Owen Brown ’64

Mr. & Mrs. Wendell H. Duke ’73

Mr. Lamar T. ’63 & Mrs. Elaine T. ’62 Hawkins

Mr. & Mrs. David C. Brubaker ’71

Mr. Timothy J. ’85 & Mrs. Julianne E. ’82 Dwyer

Mr. Albert E. Hay ’67

Mr. Thomas D. ’58 & Mrs. Frances W. ’58 Burson

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald M. Dykes ’69

Mr. & Mrs. William F. Hayes ’65

Mr. & Mrs. Henry M. Burt Jr. ’58

Mr. Lewis H. ’54 & Mrs. Annette B. ’53 Eberdt Jr.

Mr. Cotton Hazelrig

Dr. Gisela Buschle-Diller

Dr. & Mrs. Mario R. Eden

Mr. Jim P. ’94 & Mrs. Markell A. ’96 Heilbron

Mr. Daniel M. Bush ’72

Mr. Joe D. ’70 & Mrs. Jayne W. ’71 Edge

Mr. & Mrs. John P. Helmick, Jr. ’56

Mr. Robert Flournoy Bynum ’75

Mr. C. Houston ’77 & Mrs. Mary E. ’77 Elkins Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Roger R. Hemminghaus ’58

Mrs. Elizabeth G. Caldwell

Mr. & Mrs. H. Wendell Ellis ’67

Mrs. Judy J. Hendrick

Mr. & Mrs. Roger J. Campbell ’59

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Etheridge

Mr. & Mrs. John S. Henley II ’63

Mr.* & Mrs. William E. Cannady ’42

Mr. Cory Ryan Evans ’02

Ms. Melissa Herkt ’77

Mr. J. Travis Capps Jr. ’94 & Mr. Lee Anthony

Mr. James R. Evans ’55

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Farrell Higgins ’70

Mr. & Mrs. John P. Caraway ’92

Mr. Norman Smith Faris Jr. ’59

Mr. Wilson P. ’88 & Mrs. Margaret M. ’87 Hightower III

Mr. Russell L. ’83 & Mrs. Anna C. ’83 Carbine

Mr. Steven Scott Fendley ’91

Mr. Dennis S. ’79 & Mrs. Ann R. ’77 Hill

Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Carmon ’88

Mrs. Linda Ann Figg ’81

Dr. & Mrs. James S. Hood ’84

Mr. Benjamin F. ’60 & Mrs. Nancy B. ’63 Carr Jr.

Mr. Paul R. ’66 & Mrs. Barbara M. ’68 Flowers Jr.

Mr. E. Erskine Hopkins ’46

Mrs. Betty McNeice Carroll

Mr. John N. ’85 & Mrs. Amy J. ’86 Floyd Jr.

Mr. Steven D. ’71 & Mrs. Lynn J. ’79 Horne

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick T. Carroll ’87

Mr. Joe W. ’71 & Mrs. Gayle P. ’70 Forehand Jr.

Mr.* & Mrs. Clarence H. Hornsby Jr. ’50

Mr. Philip Randal Carroll ’82

Mr. Phillip A. ’81 & Mrs. Margaret L. ’81 Forsythe

Maj James M. ’81 & Mrs. Bertha T. ’80 Hoskins

Dr. Tony J. ’84 & Mrs. Tracey H. ’83 Catanzaro

CDR Jerry D. ’93 & Mrs. Constance S. ’93 Foster

Mrs. Joi Hudgins

Mr. & Mrs. Steven G. Cates ’85

Mr. Philip G. ’88 & Mrs. Kimberley W. ’88 Fraher

Mr. James G. Hughes Sr. ’56

Mr. Wiley Mitchell Cauthen ’62

Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Franklin ’49

Mr. James A. ’70 & Mrs. Michele A. ’71 Humphrey

Mr. Joe M. ’72 & Mrs. Elizabeth M. ’76 Chambers Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Christian G. Gackstatter ’84

Dr. Judy J. & Mr. Brian H. Hunt ’90

Mr. & Mrs. James M. Chandler III ’84

CAPT & Mrs. Davis R. Gamble Jr. ’74

Mr. Bruce Edward Imsand ’74

Mr. & Mrs. J. Edward Chapman Jr. ’56

Mr. & Mrs. Sibbley P. Gauntt ’54

Mr. Charles M. ’56 & Mrs. Rosemary S. ’57 Jager

Mr. & Mrs. Wheeler E. Chapman III ’83

Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Gavin III ’59

Mr. & Mrs. Carl M. Jeffcoat ’60

Mr. Clarance Joseph Chappell III ’59

Mrs. Evelyn Geisler

Mr. Charles Travis Johnson ’65

Mr. & Mrs. Randall C. Chase ’85

Mr. & Mrs. John W. Gibbs ’72

Mr. J. Sam ’75 & Mrs. Patricia D. ’75 Johnson Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Jing-Yau Chung

Mr. Michael V. Ginn

Mr. Larry T. & Mrs. Ann M. ’84 Johnson

Mr. Shawn E. ’82 & Mrs. Anne M. ’82 Cleary

Dr. & Mrs. Samuel L. Ginn ’59

Mr. William D. Johnston & Ms. Ronda Stryker

Dr. Prabhakar ’93 & Mrs. Sabina W. ’92 Clement

Mr. Thomas P. ’12 & Mrs. Curry S. ’12 Glanton

Mr. & Mrs. John Kenneth Jones ’59

Dr. Jo Anne H. ’75 & Mr. Terry J. ’76 Coggins

Mr. & Mrs. Charlie Godfrey

Mr. & Mrs. Joshua Dale Jones ’06

Mr. Eldridge J. & Mrs. Rhonda H. ’80* Cook Jr.

Mr. Gary R. ’86 & Mrs. Carol J. ’86 Godfrey

Dr. & Mrs. Peter D. Jones

Mr. Timothy Donald Cook ’82

Mr. & Mrs. Ralph B. Godfrey ’64

Mr. Robert R. ’63 & Mrs. Donna V. ’66 Keith Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. James L. Cooper Jr. ’81

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher L. Golden ’96

Mr. & Mrs. Byron R. Kelley ’70

Mr.* & Mrs. James Hugh Corbitt ’58

Mr. M. Miller ’57 & Mrs. Frances G. ’59 Gorrie

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Kelly ’90

Mr. & Mrs. Bradley W. Corson ’83

Mr. Stanley L. ’67 & Mrs. Patsy H. ’70 Graves

Gen. Leslie Farr Kenne ’70

Mr. & Mrs. Samuel S. Coursen Jr. ’73

Mr. & Mrs. David M. Gray ’93

Mr. Carver G. ’52 & Mrs. Martha M. ’54 Kennedy

Mr. Joseph L. ’70 & Mrs. Jo Ann C. ’69 Cowan

Mr. & Mrs. Gary W. Gray ’69

Mr.* & Mrs. Ronald Kenyon

Ms. Trudy Craft-Austin

Mr. & Mrs. Ruskin C. Green ’91

Mr. Zach & Mrs. Laura C. ’08 Kezar

Mrs. Barbara Ann Adkins Crane

Mr. Walter Wanzel Griffin ’47

Mr. Lester ’68 & Mrs. Catherine V. ’69 Killebrew Sr.

Drs. Malcolm J. Crocker

Mrs. Linda Vanstrum Griggs ’75

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Keith King Sr. ’58

Mr. Kevin Thomas Cullinan ’09

Mr. & Mrs. H. Vince Groome III

Dr. & Mrs. Oliver D. Kingsley Jr. ’66

Dr. & Mrs. Ralph S. Cunningham ’62

Mr. Mark A. ’94 & Mrs. Leah S. ’93 Gulley

Mr. Christopher R. & Mrs. Mary P. ’94 Kirkland

Mr. Malcolm A. Cutchins Jr. ’79

Mr. & Mrs. Glenn H. Guthrie ’62

Mr.* Terry A. ’57 & Mrs. Mina P. ’54 Kirkley

Dr. Mary K. Boudreaux & Mr. Calvin Cutshaw

Mrs. Jean Guthrie

Mr. & Mrs. Ryan Kyle Knight ’00

Mr. William J. Cutts ’55

Mr. Robert O. ’83 & Mrs. Margaret F. ’83 Haack Jr.

Mr. Ashley D. ’98 & Mrs. Stephanie C. ’98 Koby

Mrs. Dorothy Davidson

Mr. Keith Shellie Hagler ’98

Mr. Christopher J. ’94 & Mrs. Mary H. ’93 Kramer

Mrs. Charlotte Davis

Mr. & Mrs. William G. Hairston III ’67

Mr. David M. Kudlak ’86 & Mrs. Trisha Perkins

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CUPOLA REPORT Mr. Frederick D. Kuester ’73

Mrs. Mary Manson Moore ’83

Ms. Regenia Rena Sanders ’95

Mr. Thomas D. Lampkin ’75

Dr. & Mrs. Joe M. Morgan

Mr. Sid Sanders ’62

Mr. & Mrs. Scott Eric Larson Sr.

Mr. & Mrs. Larry J. Morgan ’68

Mr. Charles Philip Saunders ’74

Dr. & Mrs. Terry E. Lawler ’68

Mr. David R. Motes ’77

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Saunders Sr. ’62

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Leach

Mr. & Mrs. Scott B. Murray ’69

Mr. C. David ’65 & Mrs. Murriel W. ’65 Scarborough

Mr. & Mrs. Creighton C. Lee ’47

Dr. Robert Mark Nelms ’80

Mr. Gary L. ’78 & Mrs. Susan N. ’79 Schatz

Ms. Nelda K. Lee ’69

Mr. & Mrs. Wayne B. Nelson III ’76

Dr. & Mrs. Richard T. Scott Jr.

Gov. William Byron Lee ’81

Mr. & Mrs. William K. Newman ’69

Mr. Donald R. ’84 & Mrs. Alice J. ’85 Searcy

Mr. Edwin L. ’72 & Mrs. Becky S. ’72 Lewis

Mr. Huan D. Nguyen ’87

Mr. L. Dupuy Sears

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald C. Lipham ’74

Mr. Mark W. Norton ’13

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Senkbeil ’71

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Livingston ’10

Mr. William B. ’75 & Mrs. Lori D. ’78 Norton

Dr. Charles H. & Mrs. Alisa W. ’75 Shivers

Mr. & Mrs. Rodney L. Long ’76

Dr.* James T. ’56 & Mrs. Lou Ann T. ’56 O’Rourke Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. William Dean Shultz ’95

Mr. Lum M. Loo ’78

Mr. & Mrs. James B. Odom ’55

Mr. & Mrs. John M. Sikes ’60

Ms. Jenny Loveland

Mr. & Mrs. James M. Orrison ’85

Dr. & Mrs. R. E. Simpson ’58

Mr. William A. ’79 & Mrs. Virginia G. ’80 Lovell Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Steve P. Osburne ’65

Mrs. Margaret Sizemore

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Lowder ’72

Mr. Wynton R. ’59 & Mrs. Charlotte W. ’60 Overstreet

Mr. David Slovensky ’71

Mr.* & Mrs. Thomas M. Lowe Jr. ’49

Mr. David K. ’77 & Mrs. Olivia K. ’77 Owen

Mr.* Albert J. ’47 & Mrs.* Julia C. ’99 Smith Jr.

Mr. Raymond E. ’61 & Mrs.* Eleanor H. ’59 Loyd

Mr. & Mrs. Howard E. Palmes ’60

Mr. & Mrs. Barrett B. Smith ’68

Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Luger ’62

Mr. Donald James Parke ’82

Mr. David F. ’84 & Mrs. Doris I. ’83 Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth R. Luttrell

Mr. John S. ’55 & Mrs. Constance G. ’55 Parke

Mrs. Dorothy Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Fred W. Mace ’57

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry D. Parker Jr. ’79

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas W. Smith ’12

Mr. John A. ’72 & Mrs. Anne W. ’73 MacFarlane

Mr. Earl B. Parsons Jr. ’60

Mr. Gerald W. ’61 & Mrs. Joyce C. ’61 Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Machemehl Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Kevin A. Partridge ’87

Mr. & Mrs. Jerard T. Smith ’97

Mr. & Mrs. James J. Mallett ’55

Mr. & Mrs. Hunter Andrew Payne

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth A. Smith ’81

Mr. & Mrs. Steven N. Malone ’02

Mr. Frederick A. ’77 & Mrs. Rebecca C. ’81 Pehler Jr.

Mr. Kenneth L. Smith Jr. ’78

Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. Manson ’58

Mr. & Mrs. Hal N. Pennington ’59

Mr. & Mrs. Randy L. Smith ’76

Mr. Salvador M. ’91 & Mrs. Paula M. ’92 Marino

Ms. Trisha Perkins

Mr. Stephen L. ’75 & Mrs. Judith R. ’74 Smith

Mr. Gary Clements Martin ’57

Mrs. Kathryn Knox Petit ’91

Mr. William J. ’67 & Mrs. Susan C. ’70 Smith

Mr. & Mrs. James G. Martz ’84

Mr. William Wright Petit ’89

Mr. & Mrs. Zeke W. L. Smith ’82

Mr. & Mrs. Jesse D. May ’85

Dr. Michael S. Pindzola

Mr. John A. ’70 & Mrs. Melanie W. ’70 Smyth Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick C. Mays ’08

Mr. Lonnie H. Pope Sr.

Mr. & Mrs. Danny G. Snow ’62

Ms. Forrest Worthy McCartney

Mr. & Mrs. Jack B. Porterfield III ’75

Mr. & Mrs. Roger L. Sollie ’74

Dr. & Mrs. Michael B. McCartney ’57

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald L. Pouncey Jr. ’82

Dr. Ryan A. ’09 & Mrs. Holly H. ’03 Sothen

Ms. Julia Zekoll McClure ’68

Mr. Robert Lyons Prince ’69

Mr. Mark A. Spencer ’00

Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. McCrary ’73

Mr. William L. Rainey ’66*

Dr. William A.* & Dr. Samia I Spencer

Mr. & Mrs. James H. McDaniel ’68

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Ray ’69

Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Spina Jr. ’63

Mr. & Mrs. Albert F. McFadden Jr. ’81

Mr. & Mrs. James L. Rayburn ’67

Mr. Michael G. & Mrs. Kimberly B. ’89 Spoor

Mr. & Mrs. Jim W. McGaha ’66

Mr. & Mrs. Albert M. Redd Jr. ’59

Mr. Joseph ’67 & Mrs. Nancy W. P. ’64 Stanfield Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. George L. McGlamery ’86

Mr. William A. ’70 & Mrs. Martha R. ’69 Reed

Mr. Eugene G. ’80 & Mrs. Jacqueline G. ’78 Steele

Dr. & Mrs. Gerald G. McGlamery Jr. ’84

Mr. & Mrs. William B. Reed ’50

Mr. & Mrs. James J. Stevenson Jr. ’71

Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. McIntyre ’92

Mr. & Mrs. Emmett F. Reeder ’62

Mr. & Mrs. James H. Stewart Jr. ’60

Mr. James D. ’61 & Mrs. Paula S. ’65 McMillan

Mr. & Mrs. Carl A. Register ’63

Mr. & Mrs. John M. Stickney ’64

Mr. & Mrs. Joe McMillan ’58

Mrs. Jean M. Register

Dr. Linda J. ’79 & Mr. Jeffrey I. ’79 Stone

Mr. & Mrs. William R. McNair ’68

Mr.* & Mrs. Edgar L. Reynolds ’70

Dr. Joseph & Mrs. Susan N. ’81 Story

Mr. & Mrs. Charles P. McWane ’80

Mr. & Mrs. Harry G. Rice ’77

Mrs. Charles L. Strickland

Mr. John F. Meagher Jr. ’49

Mr. & Mrs. Lee W. Richards ’88

Mr. Thomas D. ’65 & Mrs. Marianne M. ’65

Mr. & Mrs. George A. Menendez ’70

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher J. Riley ’02

Stringfellow

Mr. Morris G. Middleton ’61

Dr. & Mrs. Christopher B. Roberts

Mr. Jon Stryker

Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. Miller ’80

Mr. & Mrs. Gary M. Roberts ’80

Ms. Pat Stryker

Mr. Joseph A. ’83 & Mrs. Donna J. ’84 Miller

Mr. Richard Y. ’73 & Mrs. Peggy F. ’74 Roberts

Mr. David C. ’79 & Mrs. Kathleen C. ’79 Sulkis

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Miller ’72

Mr. Jeffery R. ’01 & Mrs. Ashley N. ’01 Robinett

Dr. Thomas F. ’52 & Mrs. Donna K. ’57 Talbot

Mr. & Mrs. Max A. Mobley ’72

Mr. Kenneth W. & Mrs. Cathy M. ’81 Robuck

Mr. & Mrs. George H. Talley II ’91

Mr. & Mrs. William L. Moench Jr. ’76

Mrs. Karen Harris Rowell ’79

Mr. Lois Ray Taunton ’56

Dr. Larry S. Monroe ’79 & Mrs. Cynthia C. Green ’79

Mr. & Mrs. James S. Roy ’57

Mr. John Albert Taylor ’53

Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence J. Montgomery III

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth B. Roy Jr. ’50

Dr. Sherry Pittman Taylor

Mr. & Mrs. Charles N. Moody ’63

Mr. Matthew & Mrs. Linda P. ’82 Ryan

Mr. Jordon W. ’10 & Mrs. Meghan O. ’08 Tench

Mr. & Mrs. Chris Anthony Moody ’90

Mr. Joseph A. ’69 & Mrs. Mary G. ’69 Saiia

Dr. Mrinal Thakur

Mr. F. Brooks Moore ’48

Mr. & Mrs. William A. Samuel ’75

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry F. Thomas ’63

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CUPOLA REPORT Mr. & Mrs. Stephen F. Thornton ’63

Col. James S. ’72 & Dr. Suzan C. ’71 Voss

Mr. Gary L. ’74 & Mrs. Kathy A. ’76 West

Ms. Karen Louise Trapane ’82

Mr. & Mrs. Ira C. Waddey Jr. ’65

Mr. William H. ’55 & Mrs. Margaret R. ’56 Whitaker Jr.

Mr. Daniel A. ’78 & Mrs. Mical O. ’80 Traynor

Mr. James D. Wadsworth ’72

Mr. & Mrs. Dwight L. Wiggins Jr. ’62

Mr. Terry L. ’98 & Mrs. Christy C. ’97 Tucker

Mr. John T. ’55 & Mrs. Jean H. ’57 Walter Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Garris D. Wilcox ’95

Dr. Michael L. ’57 & Mrs. Dede M. ’60 Tuggle Sr.

Ms. Stephanie Marie Wang

LTC & Mrs. Ralph C. Wilkinson ’57

Mrs. Laura Crowe Turley ’87

Mr. & Mrs. Harold P. Ward ’49

Mrs. June Anson Williams ’53

Mr. Dwight J. Turner ’79

Mr. & Mrs. William J. Ward ’55

Mr. Richard D. Williams III ’51

Mr. William J. ’57 & Mrs. Jane ’57 Turner Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. William E. Warnock Jr. ’74

Mr. Trent E. Williams ’03 & Mr. Lui Rogliano

Mr. George E. ’54 & Mrs. Dorothy S. ’54 Uthlaut

Mr. Conner ’67 & Mrs. Dorothy ’69 Warren

Mr. & Mrs. George E. Williamson II ’67

Mr. Jeffrey N. ’85 & Mrs. Harriet W. ’84 Vahle

Mr. & Mrs. J. Ernest Warren ’65

Mr. & Mrs. Clyde E. Wills Jr. ’68

Mr. Mark David Vanstrum ’79

Mr. Robert M. ’71 & Mrs. Linda B. ’70 Waters

Mr. Brock M. ’09 & Mrs. Laura A. ’09 Wilson ’09

Mr. Michael J. ’78 & Mrs. Janet W. ’78 Varagona

Mr. & Mrs. John H. Watson ’60

Mr. & Mrs. Walter S. Woltosz ’69

Dr. Robert L. Vecellio

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph D. Weatherford ’71

Mr. William B. M. Womack ’75

Mr. & Mrs. John E. Vick ’62

Dr. & Mrs. Glenn D. Weathers ’65

Mr. D. Dale ’76 & Mrs. Happy S. ’78 York

Mr. & Mrs. William C. Voigt III ’87

Mr. & Mrs. Erich J. Weishaupt ’97

Mr. Walter Karl Vollberg ’73

Mr. James Wade Wesson ’73

KEYSTONE SOCIETY The engineering Keystone Society consists of alumni and friends who recognize the importance of private support in the college’s ongoing success. These members have risen to the challenge of moving the college boldly into the future by making the highest commitment of annual giving – $50,000 or more – to the college’s unrestricted fund over a five-year period. Our sustaining members continue this commitment for more than five years. These gifts allow Auburn Engineering to be nimble in planning and take advantage of emerging educational opportunities.

Mr. Thomas D. ’94 & Mrs. Aneda C. ’95 Anspach

Mr. Robert Harding Harris ’47*

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald L. Pouncey Jr. ’82

Mr. & Mrs. Michael P. Batey ’79

Mr. & Mrs. William F. Hayes ’65

Mr.* & Mrs. Richard D. Quina ’48

Ms. Leslee Belluchie ’83

Mr. John P. Helmick Jr. ’56

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Ray ’69

Mr. Felix C. “Kit” ’73 & Mrs. Gail W. ’76 Brendle Jr.

Maj. James M. ’81 & Mrs. Bertha T. ’80 Hoskins

Mr. William Jasper Reaves ’57

Mr. James H. Carroll Jr. ’54*

Mr. & Mrs. John K. Jones ’59

Mr. & Mrs. William B. Reed ’50

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick T. Carroll ’87

Mr. & Mrs. Byron R. Kelley ’70

Mr. & Mrs. Carl A. Register ’63

Mr. & Mrs. Steven G. Cates ’85

Mr. Lester H. ’68 & Mrs. Catherine V. ’69

Mr.* & Mrs. Edgar L. Reynolds ’70

Mr. & Mrs. J. Edward Chapman Jr. ’56

Mr. & Mrs. Harry G. Rice ’77

Mr. & Mrs. Randall C. Chase ’85

Dr. & Mrs. Oliver D. Kingsley Jr. ’66

Mr. Richard Y. ’73 & Mrs. Peggy F. ’74 Roberts

Mr. Shawn E. ’82 & Mrs. Anne M. ’82 Cleary

Mr. Minga Cecil LaGrone Jr. ’51*

Mr. Charles Philip Saunders ’74

Mr. & Mrs. James L. Cooper Jr. ’81

Gov. & Mrs. William B. Lee ’81

Mr.* & Mrs. George M. Sewell ’59

Mr. Joseph L. ’70 & Mrs. Jo Ann C. ’69 Cowan

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald C. Lipham ’74

Mr. Albert J. ’47 & Mrs. Julia C. ’99* Smith Jr.

Mr. Kevin Thomas Cullinan ’09

Mr.* & Mrs. Thomas M. Lowe Jr. ’49

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas W. Smith ’12

Mr. William J. Cutts ’55

Mr. John A. ’72 & Mrs. Anne W. ’73 MacFarlane

Mr. & Mrs. Zeke W. L. Smith ’82

Dr. Julian Davidson ’50*

Dr. & Mrs. Michael B. McCartney ’57

Mr. John A. ’70 & Mrs. Melanie W. ’70 Smyth Jr.

Mr.* & Mrs. Charles E. Davis ’59

Mr. Charles Douglas McCrary ’73

Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Spina Jr. ’63

Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. DeMaioribus ’76

Mr. James D. ’61 & Mrs. Paula S. ’65 McMillan

Mr. & Mrs. James H. Stewart Jr. ’60

Mr. Joe D. ’70 & Mrs. Jayne W. ’71 Edge

Mr. & Mrs. Joe T. McMillan ’58

Dr. Linda J. ’79 & Mr. Jeffrey I. ’79 Stone

Mrs. Linda Ann Figg ’81

Mr. & Mrs. William R. McNair ’68

Mr. Anthony J. ’73* & Mrs. Patricia C. ’73 Topazi

Mr. C. Warren Fleming ’43

Mr. Morris G. Middleton ’61

Mr. George E. ’54 & Mrs. Dorothy S. ’54 Uthlaut

Mr. Phillip A. ’81 & Mrs. Margaret L. ’81 Forsythe

Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. Miller ’80

Mr. Jeffrey N. ’85 & Mrs. Harriet W. ’84 Vahle

Mr. Charles E. Gavin III ’59

Mr. Joseph A. ’83 & Mrs. Donna J. ’84 Miller

Mr. Mark David Vanstrum ’79

Mr. Charles E. Gavin IV ’82*

Mr. David R. Motes ’77

Mr. & Mrs. William J. Ward ’55

Mr. Gary R. ’86 & Mrs. Carol J. ’86 Godfrey

Dr. Robert Mark Nelms ’80

Mr. & Mrs. William E. Warnock Jr. ’74

Mr. & Mrs. Ralph B. Godfrey ’64

Mr. David K. ’77 & Mrs. Olivia K. ’77 Owen

Mr.* & Mrs. Leroy L. Wetzel ’59

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher L. Golden ’96

Mr. & Mrs. Howard E. Palmes ’60

Mr. & Mrs. Dwight L. Wiggins Jr. ’62

Mr. & Mrs. Glenn H. Guthrie ’62

Mr. & Mrs. Earl B. Parsons Jr. ’60

Mr. & Mrs. Walter S. Woltosz ’69

Mr. Robert O. ’83 & Mrs. Margaret F. ’83 Haack Jr.

Mr. Daniel J. ’64* & Mrs. Nancy M. ’64 Paul Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. William G. Hairston III ’67

Mr. & Mrs. Hal N. Pennington ’59

Killebrew Sr.

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CUPOLA REPORT PLANNED GIFTS Planned gifts are pledged today to benefit the college in the future. These gifts include bequests, life income plans, charitable gift annuities, IRA distributions and gifts of life insurance. Planned gifts enable donors to manage their investments while leaving a lasting legacy for Auburn Engineering. The following were established in 2019: Mr. John P. ’76 & Mrs. Cynthia Mace ’76 Anderson

Mrs. Gwenn S. Freeman ’73

Mr. Rainer ’85 & Mrs. Jill Prettyman ’85 Lukoschek

Mr. James O. ’59 & Mrs. Bettye ’59 Ballenger

Mr. Albert E. Hay ’67

Mr. John A. ’72 & Mrs. Anne W. ’73 MacFarlane

Mr. Ben Beasley ’65

Mr. James & Mrs. Barbara L. Hecathorn ’83

Mr. Dwayne L. Maddron ’84

Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Bishop ’79

Mr. Thomas A. Hereford Jr. ’74

Mr. & Mrs. William R. McNair ’68

Mr. Patrick L. Byrne ’71

Mrs. Kathryn L. Johnson ’78

Mr. Michael L. ’76 & Mrs. Kathy F. ’75 Neighbors

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Frassrand ’76

Mr. & Mrs. James L. Killian III

Mr. & Mrs. Walter S. Woltosz ’69

We have made every attempt to accurately reflect donor information.

If you notice a discrepancy, please contact Wade Welch in the Office of Engineering Development at 334-844-7461 or wade.welch@auburn.edu.

For a listing of donors who gave prior to 2019, please see previous Spring issues of the Cupola Report at eng.auburn.edu/magazine.

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