May 24, 2011
UAB student's micro-air vehicle paper wins contest
UAB graduate David Cooper is the winner of CD-adapco’s 2011 Academic Paper Contest. The paper on his Senior Design Project, “Performance of a Proposed Micro-Aerial Vehicle Design,” explains how he used a number of STAR-CCM+ techniques to an applied engineering design that otherwise would require completion of the project to test. (read more)

May 13, 2011
Leonardo program joins art and engineering genius
Imagine what Leonardo da Vinci would have done with 3-D modeling software and computer simulation. Some UAB students are about to find out in a new certificate program named for the Renaissance genius that brings together art and engineering. The directors say the Leonardo program prepares students for careers in 3-D modeling and its applications in health care, education, entertainment and other fields (read more).

February 23, 2011
Outstanding engineering students named
Donny Burke, a doctoral candidate from the Interdisciplinary Engineering program, is the Outstanding Graduate Student Engineer (read more).

Fall 2010, UAB Magazine
Race Ready
Each year, students from the UAB Department of Mechanical Engineering spend hundreds of hours designing and building high-tech (read more).

Study Away, Blair Farley
The study away experiences of Blair Farley, a senior Mechanical Engineering major, are highlighed here.

Research, Kyle Gilbreath and Jake Nelson
Senior Mechanical Engineering students Kyle Gilbreath and Jake Nelson describe their senior design project - a bamboo wheelchair.

September 28, 2010