FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS David Bevly, the Bill and Lana McNair Professor of mechanical engineering, and Scott Martin, assistant research professor of mechanical engineering, were awarded $4.63 million in funding from 16 sponsors during the first 11 months of the 2019 fiscal year. Imon Chakraborty, assistant professor of aerospace engineering, and Roy Hartfield, the Walt and Virginia Woltosz Professor of aerospace engineering, were awarded a $540,000 grant from NASA for their research on stability and
control characteristics of advanced and novel aircraft. Selen Cremaschi, the B. Redd Associate Professor of chemical engineering, was named in the Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research journal’s 2018 Class of Influential Researchers. Virginia Davis, the Alumni Professor of chemical engineering, was invited to join the editorial board of the journal PLOS One. Sean Gallagher, the Hal N. and Peggy S. Pennington Associate
Professor of industrial and systems engineering, was named a fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Greg Harris, associate professor of industrial and systems engineering and director of the Southern Alliance for Advanced Vehicle Manufacturing, was awarded a $322,849 grant from the National Institute for Standards and Technology for research on developing a distributed manufacturing network. Elizabeth Lipke, the Mary and John H. Sanders Associate Professor of chemical engineering, is directing a
CILLUFFO TESTIFIES Frank Cilluffo, director of Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security, testified before a subcommittee of Congress’ Committee on Homeland Security in June 2019, speaking about the cybersecurity challenges that state and local governments face and how the federal government can help.
“We must work to safeguard the continuity of commerce and the delivery of mission-critical services for the American people,” Cilluffo testified. “Unless and until we foster and have in place a robust baseline capability across the board, from a state and local standpoint, we will remain more vulnerable than we ought to be to nation-state and non-state cyber actors with malicious intent.” Cilluffo has publicly testified before Congress on numerous occasions and is routinely called upon to advise senior officials in the executive branch, U.S. Armed Services, and state and local governments on an array of matters related to national and homeland security strategy and policy. Prior to joining Auburn in September 2018, Cilluffo led the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University. Following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Cilluffo was appointed by President George W. Bush to the newly created Office of Homeland Security. There, he was involved in a wide range of homeland security and counterterrorism strategies, policy initiatives and served as a principal advisor to Director Tom Ridge, directing the president’s Homeland Security Advisory Council. Cilluffo is also a member of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission and the Department of Homeland Security’s Advisory Council. He has presented at a number of bi-lateral and multi-lateral summits on cybersecurity and countering terrorism, including the U.N. Security Council.
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$960,600 program that will train six doctoral fellows in the area of biomaterials engineering and biomanufacturing. The interdisciplinary program is sponsored by a U.S. Department of Education grant. Joseph Majdalani, the Francis Chair of aerospace engineering, was awarded a $386,553 grant from the National Science Foundation for his research on predicting and mitigating undesirable acoustic phenomena in combustors and power generation systems. Shiwen Mao, the Samuel Ginn Professor of electrical and computer engineering
