Dog's Best Friend
Move over DiCaprio, there's a new Leo on the scene. He's a mechanical engineering senior, outgoing Cupola president and the best thing to ever happen to Winnie the three-legged Golden Retriever.
Mar 17, 2023•22 min•Season 5Ep. 201
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Day Dreams
Tiny mics . Big dreams. Enjoy this conversation with sophomore Katie Day, whose passion for sustainability and alternative energy prompted her to pursue a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering as well as minors in nuclear power generation systems and sustainability studies. And of course she's a Cupola.
Mar 06, 2023•23 min•Season 4Ep. 200
Word on the Preet
Two syllables. Endless potential. Ladies and gentlemen, aerospace engineering senior Preet Shah.
Mar 03, 2023•20 min•Season 4Ep. 199
Fluid Situation
When you think of unsteady separated flows over rotating wings, multi-rotor aeromechanics, biomechanics of avian gust interactions, plume-surface interactions, pulsatile droplet-laden flows, heart valve flows, and respiratory diseases, who's the first person that comes to mind? Yeah, exactly. Ladies and gentlemen, Vrishank Raghav.
Feb 23, 2023•25 min•Season 4Ep. 198
Pavement Amazement
You're about to hear a pavement probin' powerhouse drop all kinds of science to prove he's among the tallest of the asphalt giants. It's him, it's him, it's David Timm.
Feb 16, 2023•22 min•Season 4Ep. 197
Kate the Great
Kate Preston is a junior in chemical engineering. And she's your new Miss Auburn. Enjoy!
Feb 09, 2023•21 min•Season 4Ep. 196
The Path of Khan
Her name is Arabic for "happiness." And boy has civil engineering master's student Afrah Kahn finally found herself at Auburn.
Feb 02, 2023•21 min•Season 4Ep. 195
Richer Radar
Why is Allyson McKinney the bee's knees? Because her company's technology can find the bee's knees. From like 15 meters away. Traditional radar? Traditional radar can barely identify a full grown human being from that distance. So it's no wonder that the SoloPulse founder and CEO was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list for manufacturing and industry. Talk about creatin' a buzz....
Jan 26, 2023•24 min•Season 4Ep. 194
Come on, Haneen!
Haneen Ali is all about improving healthcare delivery processes with systems engineering. And football. Learn how the Jordanian dual appointment dynamo is using her pigskin passion to boost the research reputation of both the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering and Auburn's College of Liberal Arts on the latest episode of the best podcast in all of higher education.
Jan 20, 2023•23 min•Season 4Ep. 193
Lockheed Lydia
Lydia means "native of Lydia." But Lydia Mitchell isn't from ancient Greece. She's from Gordo. And she's is the latest guest on the award-winning #GINNing Podcast... for a dang good reason.
Jan 13, 2023•19 min•Season 4Ep. 192
From Dust to Thrust
Pooriya Nezhadfar is his name. Process structure property relationships is his game. Find out just why GE Aerospace named the latest kudos-collecting luminary to emerge from NCAME as its lead additive manufacturing specialist before he even earned his PhD. From dust to thrust, this guy's a must.
Dec 15, 2022•26 min•Season 4Ep. 191
Chip off the ol' Motherboard
If the story of recent computer science and software engineering graduates Donna Jackson and Jamie Whitehead tells us anything, it's that the world needs more mothers. And motherboards.
Dec 15, 2022•31 min•Season 4Ep. 190
Marshal Matters
Friends, if you want a podcast that sticks the landing. Then you want a podcast with graduating senior in electrical and computer engineering Jacob Blanding . (Emphasis on the sticks.)
Dec 15, 2022•23 min•Season 4Ep. 189
When you wish upon a Stahl
Don't let his last name fool you. Because there's no way this Disney-destined double-major dynamo's career is going to stall out.
Dec 15, 2022•20 min•Season 4Ep. 188
The Junior Junior
Hear 18-year-old award-winnin', Russian-speakin', civil engineerin' wunderkind Morgan Burk discuss her past, present and future. She can't drink. But, boy can she think. (Oh, and actually, by credits, she's a senior.)
Dec 06, 2022•24 min•Season 4Ep. 187
It just means Moore...
Do you like to hear stories about mentors changing students lives? Psychometrist success stories? Do you want... Moore... out of a podcast? Well, you're welcome.
Dec 02, 2022•22 min•Season 4Ep. 186
Wesley's Foundation
Computer Science, finance, battle bots, volunteerism, picking Auburn over the University of Pennsylvania... Ladies and gentlemen, Wesley Lowman.
Nov 17, 2022•20 min•Season 4Ep. 185
Heart to heart with Harvell
Diversity, equity, inclusion, working to perhaps one day repair his own heart with tissue grown from his own heart... it's all in a day's work for chemical engineering grad student Justin Harvell.
Nov 16, 2022•24 min•Season 4Ep. 184
Somebody wrote 'War Eagle'
You'll be listening to our interview with NASA Marshall Space Flight Center deputy director, Auburn aerospace engineering alumnus and noted rocket graffiti artist Joseph Pelfrey in 3, 2, 1...
Nov 11, 2022•26 min•Season 4Ep. 183
Amazing Grace
Kovakas, Grace — she of the Makerspace. Listen to chemical engineering junior and makerspace maestro Grace Kovakas reflect on the rousing resource available on the bottom of the Brown-Kopel Engineering Student Achiement Center, and on navigating "the Big Three," on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast.
Nov 04, 2022•22 min•Season 4Ep. 182
Roy Oil
If you've struggled to understand the synergistic effects of blending triglycerides and biomass based hydrothermal liquefied biocrude over different catalysts supports in order to produce renewable fuels, then today's your lucky day. Listen to biosytems doctoral student Poulami Roy, winner of a Best Presenter Award at the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers' (ASABE) Annual International Conference recently held in Houston, discuss her ground-breaking research on the latest ...
Oct 28, 2022•22 min•Season 4Ep. 181
Eye of the Leopard
Building rockets, autonomous vehicles... oh, sure — obviously. But... did you know that Auburn mechanical engineers can also... make it rain? Just ask Auburn point guard Wendell Green who recently called mechanical engineering senior Chandler Leopard "the best shooter I’ve ever played with in my life." Hope you like classical, friends. Because it's time for a little string music.
Oct 20, 2022•19 min•Season 4Ep. 180
Supraman
You MAYO may not like this episode. But assistant chemical engineering professor Michael Howard is one of the nation's leading collector of colloidal kudos. His latest is from a little outfit called the National Science Foundation. Buckle up.
Sep 30, 2022•17 min•Season 4Ep. 179
His Voice is His Passport
Smart people like the 1992 movie "Sneakers." So it's no wonder Sam Mulder , new associate research professor in Auburn's Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, can quote it.
Sep 30, 2022•19 min•Season 4Ep. 178
Orange (and Blue) Beach
From O‘ahu to Orange Beach, it's been one heck of a ride. Buckle up and get your ears on for an environmental engineering education experience par excellence courtesy humble Joel Hayworth, the Elton Z. and Lois G. Huff Associate Professor of civil and environmental engineering, and the director of the newly announced Auburn University Gulf Coast Research Station.
Sep 29, 2022•26 min•Season 4Ep. 177
Wilmore Woman
Materials engineering maven and pageant circuit veteran Reagan Handley is bringing as much poise to prosthetics and orthotics as she did to the runway. Her school? Auburn University. Her talent? Being smart.
Sep 20, 2022•22 min•Season 4Ep. 176
Ellie Without Borders
From the Loveliest Village to the Saloj Village , industrial and systems engineering junior Ellie Hungerford is changing the world.
Sep 15, 2022•21 min•Season 4Ep. 175
Shattered Glass
That sound you hear is 1977 civil engineering superstar Melissa Herkt taking a billion-dollar project management sledgehammer to the glass ceiling.
Aug 31, 2022•25 min•Season 4Ep. 174
#GINNing heralds Gerald
Gerald L. Pouncey Jr. is the Chairman of Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP, and head of the firm's Environmental and Infrastructure Practices. He's also the latest guest on the award-winning #GINNing Podcast. Listen to the 1982 chemical engineering graduate discuss his courthoom career and his Auburn legacy.
Aug 30, 2022•19 min•Season 4Ep. 173
Under Pressure
Chemical engineering grad student Ayuba Akinpelu knows a thing or two about operating under pressure. Good news for us. Bad news for cancer.
Aug 22, 2022•18 min•Season 4Ep. 172
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