#GINNing Podcast

At next year's Graduate Engineering Research Showcase, Ryan Pollard's professional passion might come in handy in more ways than one. Because if this first-year mechanical engineering student has to carry any more awards , he may need some rehabilitation robotics and assistive devices of his own. 

Soon the roads will be paved with Silva. Listen to Brazilian-born civil engineering doctoral student Liz Pereira Valenca Silva discuss how her passion for pavement led her pursue a Ph. D. through Auburn's world-renowned National Center for Asphalt Technology on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast .    

No family connections, just an incredible sense of direction. Listen to software engineering senior Trevor Aupperle reflect on his college choice — and ponder his Prime potential — on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast .

Time to howl about the double "wow" that is senior Katie Wolfe. Having emancipated herself from the Crimson craving expectations of her Bama grad parents, this electrical engineering — and theater design and technology — major is now on the prowl for greatness. Talk about an engineering spotlight...

The brand, the myth, the legend. Yes, it's time to run some tests on the tiger's blood of paddle boarding power broker and lifestyle luminary Corey Cooper, a 2005 mechanical engineering grad with a spirit unafraid to... rock the BOTE . 

This is the story of an engineering rebel who embraced Auburn sight unseen, fell in love with Aubie, broke Oxford's generational curse on her family, and tackled the greatest challenges for green infrastructure. Eat your heart out, Ole Miss. Listen to the award-winning #GINNing gang's interview with junior Kate Wilson, the new president of Auburn's chapter of the American Society of...

Air Force Staff Sergeant Silvia Duff has built bunkers in Eastern Africa and written policy for emergency response plans and joint force agreements with America's NATO allies. In 2018, she was recognized as Civil Engineer U.S. Airman of the Year. But the Colombian-born civil engineering senior's  true call of duty may be helping veterans win battles off the battlefield. 

Word on the street is that Hunter Burch is the younger half of the first father-son combo among Auburn Engineering faculty colleagues. Listen to the assistant electrical engineering professor share his feelings on this historic accomplishment, discuss his mind-bending research into applied electromagnetics, and dish on his mechanical maestro dad on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing...

From Puerto Rico to the Plains, Yadrianna Acosta-Sojo is preventing injuries and taking names. 

All that stuff about engineering giving you wings, helping you soar,  taking your career to new heights? The path double major Caroline Culjak took kind of gives that a whole new meaning. 

When it comes to dialysis, chemical engineering doctoral student and Jordan-Hare Stadium play clock operator Matt Garnett definitely wants to delay the game. 

Peter Abraham, Shelby Wales, Maggie Nelson... there's obviously a lot of Goldwaters in them there Auburn Hills. But our latest scholarship-snaggin' nugget is double-majoring overachiever extraordinaire Ayden Kemp, whose 5th-grade trip to DisneyLand inspired a unique educational journey only one engineering school could provide. 

Want to learn about Cotton's future impact on the environment? Listen no further, my friends. The latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast with CEE junior Celi Cotton once again draws from the well of stormwater-studying wunderkinds helping to turn Auburn into the education destination for runoff mitigation.  

"Proudly stands our CSSE senior, banners high... " Learn how business school poster boy Zakariya Veasy is poised to revolutionize the credit game through Omnis, a pitch-perfect startup facilitating  peer-to-peer, short-term microloans.

Ashley Gann took her 2005 Auburn aerospace engineering degree and used it to smash meteorology's glass ceiling in the state of Alabama. Learn how awesome she is on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast. 

We believe in work — hard work. Which is why we believe in Pilcher — Shay Pilcher, the twice-diploma'd, Auburn mechanical engineering grad, current research engineer and founder and CEO of Archangel Defense, who's racing to change the world faster than the speed demons she sprang from. 

Want to hear about a beaming Auburn engineering student who's vaulting her way through her academic routine with unparalleled devotion? Well, go ahead and get your ears on for this interview with sophomore gymnastics sensation Hailey John. You'll be absolutely floored.  

Industrial and systems engineering doctoral student Murray Gibson sat down (comfortably) with the #GINNing gang to talk about the guy whose multi-task ergonomic analysis model is going international. His name? Murray Gibson. 

If the intro confuses you, just Google 'Oh, Hi Mark.' But, yeah, why does assistant mechanical engineering professor Mark Hoffman get such high marks on Rate My Professor? Why do students think he's "chill" and "one of the best engineering professors" they've ever had and "an intelligent professor with a great sense of realism and humor..."  Time t...

Hey, you know who's on the mark, fam? New engineering grad marshal Jakob Markham. 

There's a new chair over in Ross Hall. And we're not talking La-Z-Boy.  Listen to Selen Cremaschi, the B. Redd and Susan W. Redd Eminent Scholar Chair Professor, discuss her new role in Auburn University’s Department of Chemical Engineering on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast .

Akond Rahman, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, discusses his NSF-funded contributions to strengthening the nation’s cyber infrastructure on the latest episode of the best podcast in higher education.  

Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink? Perish the thought, says Jose Vasconcelos, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, one of 32 researchers selected by the Jewish National Fund-USA to travel to Israel for its 2023 Summer Faculty Fellowship Program. 

Despite the demonstrated success of metal additive manufacturing (AM) in various industries, the performance uncertainty of AM parts undermines the potential of deploying AM for high-consequence applications. Air travel. Space travel. That sort of thing. Which is why the NSF is turning to assistant industrial and systems engineering professor Peter Liu. The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering'...

You've heard of CCR. But get ready to learn about that CDCR. Because if there's a poster child for the benefits of going feet first into the resources provided by the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering's Office of Career Development and Corporate Relations, it's Lila Saunders. From the whiskey woods of Tennessee to the White Sands of New Mexico, this just graduated aerospace ac...