#GINNing Podcast

#GINNing Podcast

The award-winning #GINNing Podcast, brought to you by Auburn University's Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.

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April 29, 2024 19 mins

Four years ago, Jack Branham was torn.

"While I was going through college selection, I wasn't planning on being an engineer. I wanted to be a music major," said Branham, a graduating senior and researcher in mechanical engineering from Montgomery. "But I had as much passion for engineering as I had for music.  Auburn has a great music program, but it's also a great engineering school. Ultimately, I...

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Turner Friday is hitting the road this summer... for two and a half months. The industrial and systems engineering sophomore is raising money for those with disabilities through a cross-country bike ride sure to make memories — and make a difference. And you can help.

Hear him discuss his Auburn Engineering journey — and his upcoming journey from San Francisco to Miami — on the latest episode of the best podcast in higher education ...

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April 9, 2024 23 mins

Mechanical engineering junior and Auburn swimming sensation Mason Mathias can follow that black line like nobody's business. In the pool, in the classroom, the Lad from Leeds is constantly in the lead. We're talking trainin', we're talkin' brainin'... we're talkin' Mason Mathias. 

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April 9, 2024 25 mins

Things are really heating up for Thomas Lester. The fourth-generation Auburn Man and sophomore in industrial and systems engineering recently sat down with the #GINNing gang to discuss how his early morning caffeine cravings spawned an entrepreneurial empire in the making. 

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April 4, 2024 22 mins

Meet biosystems engineering sophomore Bella Nonales, a dean's list dynamo with a chance of making history as the drummiest major in the history of the Auburn University Marching Band. Not bad for someone who just celebrated her 5th birthday. 

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March 22, 2024 20 mins

On the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast, meet biosystems engineering sophomore Maddie Spoor, an Auburn Engineering double legacy who's getting the earliest jump possible on undergraduate research in order to blaze her own trail. 

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March 22, 2024 23 mins

The man, the myth, the unincorporated legend. Ladies and gentlemen — senior mechanical engineering lecturer, undergraduate program officer, student advisor and director of the Design and Manufacturing Lab, Jordan Roberts. 

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March 13, 2024 21 mins

Cassandra Porter. Cassie Porter. Cass Porter. She goes by many names. And she has even more pursuits. She's a former professional ballerina. A current fossil hunter. And a day-jobbing assistant professor of chemical engineering. Curious? Well then join us as we pass through the walls of mystery surrounding this LinkedIn-less membrane maestro. 

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February 29, 2024 21 mins

When it comes to hacking, Emily Kimbrell ain't slacking. Listen to this former aspiring cinematographer turned white hat wunderkind (and undergraduate software engineering research fellow) discuss how Auburn is routing her career — and the largest hackathon in Alabama.

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February 29, 2024 24 mins

What to expect on the 251st episode of the best podcast in all of higher education? How about the origin story of geotechnical juggernaut Brian Anderson, a full-scale infrastructure inspiration who's girding the loins of this nation's foundations. 

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February 20, 2024 21 mins

From polymers to public administration, Olivia Cook is inspiring the nation. Listen to the 2014 polymer and fiber engineering graduate (with graduate degrees from Auburn in public policy and public administration) discuss how she's using lessons learned at Auburn to help change the world on the 250th episode of the best podcast in all of higher education. 

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February 16, 2024 22 mins

From the decathlon to biomechanics startups, mechanical engineering graduate student and track and field standout David Edmondson is clearing the bar — and then some. 

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January 25, 2024 21 mins

Parabolic telescopes... diamond-turning lathes...  few folks have taken advantage of Auburn Engineering's next-level makerspace like aerospace engineering senior Cyrus Lloyd. 

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January 25, 2024 21 mins

Girls go to college to get more knowledge. And, in Kanak Parmar's case, to get us to Jupiter a little less stupider. (You're welcome, Deep Space Network.)

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January 23, 2024 20 mins

When it comes to subjects like heat transfer, let's just say computer science and software engineering freshman Cameron Tilly's 90+ mile per hour fastball already has him a little ahead of the game. 

Learn why the top pitching prospect chose Auburn Engineering over Major League Baseball — for now — on the latest episode of the best podcast in higher education. 

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January 17, 2024 25 mins

Associate professor and associate chair in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering. Director of Computer Science and Software Engineering Undergraduate Programs. Director of Global Programs, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering. How does Dean Hendrix do it? Find out on the latest episode of the best podcast in all of higher education. 

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January 11, 2024 25 mins

Mechanical engineer. Soccer referee. eBay Powerseller. Graduate research assistant Christian Fauer does it all. 

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January 4, 2024 26 mins

Ali Khosravi, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, plans to dive deep into morphing skins on robotic systems designed to burrow deep for measuring soil structures. (In other words, robot worms.)


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December 13, 2023 19 mins

Got a friction addiction? Enjoy discussing discontinued syrup brands? Than get your ears on for the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast featuring chief of the Auburn tribe of student tribologists, mechanical engineering graduate research assistant Jack Janik. 

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December 13, 2023 25 mins

Auburn Engineering is helping animatronics aficionado Savanna Anderson fulfill her Disney dreams. Thank you, Asa Kalama.


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