Free rides from Wednesday through Saturday night are being offered by the Toomer's Ten transit system."We run a charter for the SGA," said Rex Huffman, manager of transit services at Auburn University.
From supersonic wind tunnels to laser scanning technology, aerospace engineering is not lacking research to be performed.Kyle Lynch, first year master's student in aerospace engineering, is taking advantage of both the wind tunnel and laser scanning technology.Lynch has been using the Pulse Burst Laser System in cooperation with the supersonic wind tunnel and in development of a high-speed, 3-D flow visualization technique.
Members of the Student Alumni Association will leave for Oxford, Miss., for the Affiliated Student Advancement Programs District 3 conference today at 1 p.m.The conference is centered on spreading ideas among different universities.Starting last Wednesday, Matthew Cox, junior in accounting and SAA president, started collecting shirts on the Concourse with the help of his fellow SAA members in preparation for their appearance at the ASAP conference at Ole Miss.Cox said the T-shirt drive is for the benefit of those affected by the earthquake in Haiti."Any kind of shirt will work at this point," said Wendy Norred, senior in health administration and SAA vice president of campus relations.Norred said it did not even matter if the shirts were clean before they were donated."We are taking (the shirts) to a conference who will clean them all," Norred said.All kinds of shirts were collected at the tent SAA set up on the Concourse."Long sleeved, short sleeved and even sleeveless," Norred said.The SAA members had a plastic bin filled with various donated shirts.SAA contacted news groups who spread the word of the shirt drive as far as Columbus, Ga., Cox said.SAA has received help from the Auburn community, Cox said.As of last Wednesday, the Auburn University Marching Band had collected around 300 shirts, Cox said.All the shirts that were collected will be taken to the conference today.The conference will include the University of Georgia, University of Florida, University of Tennessee, University of South Carolina and University of Mississippi.ASAP evokes slight competition but the bottom line of the conference is to support Haiti and increase relations amongstDistrict 3 schools.
The Student Center ballroom filled with SGA candidate supporters, neon-colored campaign shirts spouting the names of the 11 candidates Monday night.SGA President Jacob Watkins served as the spokesperson for the debate. The major candidate positions included in the debate were president, vice president and treasurer. Miss Auburn candidates were invited to briefly explain their platforms.
A mass of volunteers gathered in the cold rain near the green space outside the Student Center for the kick-off of the Big Event Saturday, Feb. 6, at 9 a.m.The Big Event has been directed by Auburn University's SGA for six years.
Auburn University's College of Aerospace Engineering has been testing the aerodynamics of a missile at Mach 2 speeds in an on-campus Blowdown Wind Tunnel in the Advanced Laser Diagnostics Laboratory.Kyle Long, first year master's student in aerospace engineering, uses speeds equivalent to traveling the distance of six football fields in one second to test his handmade missile.The engineers are using a generic missile model that is equipped with an air jet on the side, Long said.The model weighs about five or six ounces and is made up of aluminum.
Aerospace takes the fierce air speeds of a tornado, or vortex, and tames the tornadic winds by creating the cyclic phenomena in water.Manjul Gupta, graduate student in aerospace engineering, is able to use the dense quality of water to create a vortex in water at a speed of only .2 meters per second.The vortex is created by the turbulence off the tip of a small-scale airplane wing pitched at four degrees from the natural flow plane.A pitch of four degrees would allow a normal airplane to slowly climb higher, called its angle of attack.There has to be an angle of attack to form a vortex, Gupta said.Gupta uses a wing that is four inches wide.The width of the wing is the chord length of the wing."I am trying to simulate a real aircraft," Gupta said.
Gov. Bob Riley began his speech at 2:19 p.m. at the groundbreaking ceremony of Auburn University's Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Center, held at Auburn Research Park, Feb.
Faculty senate unanimously passed four action items on the agenda Feb. 10.One action item was a the Endorsement of Retention Statement from Retention Committee.Auburn is tied with the University of Alabama with both freshmen and 6-year graduating student retention, with respective percentages of 85 and 64 percent.In order to have effective retention increase, it requires the support of every part of the University, said Jeffrey Fergus, chair of Retention Committee."Staff has responsibility, faculty do and students do as well," Fergus said.Key components in keeping the responsibilities distributed accordingly will be communication and cooperation among all areas of the University.Faculty and staff can communicate to students in learning communities, which teach incoming freshman what may be encountered at Auburn.The UNIV 1000 level classes have freshmen retention of 90.5 percent, Fergus said.Supplemental instruction also adds to the percentage of retention.The average test scores from classes that offer SI are four to seven points higher than the average tests scores from non-SI classes, Fergus said.The motion passed enabling students to meet high academic standards through the cooperative efforts of faculty, staff and students.There are 12 colleges and schools at Auburn University so the Faculty Research Committee undergoes a rotation schedule with three-year terms."We meet monthly and some colleges are being left out," said Bruce Smith, chair of the Faculty Research Committee.Constance Relihan, chair of Auburn Connects Common Book Program and senior associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Liberal Arts, supported Fergus' goals for higher retention percentages."This program, which we are calling Auburn Connects, the Common Book Program, comes out of all of this emphasis on student retention," Relihan said.The idea is to give students a visualization of as many things as possible, all in one book.
Reclaimed asphalt pavement, RAP, is one of many recycled materials tested at the National Center for Asphalt Technology at Auburn University."The NCAT and its unique programs represent the best in cutting-edge technologies in the field of asphalt research and education," said Jim Killian, director of communications and marketing for Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.
