College of Engineering

LSU's College of Engineering Dean Vicki Colvin has invited retired Texas A&M Professor Emeritus Alan Needleman to speak in Patrick F. Taylor Hall on Friday, Jan. 30, 3-4:30 p.m., in room 1100. Needleman, who recently retired from Texas A&M's Materials Science and Engineering Department, is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received the Prager Medal of the Society of Engineering Science and the Timoshenko Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He also holds honorary doctorates from the Technical University of Denmark and Ecole Normale Superior de Cachan (France) and is an Honorary Professor of Dalian University of Technology (China).

It’s become impossible not to associate the future with artificial intelligence. AI and machine learning technologies are poised to make as large an impact on human life as the Industrial Revolution did, if not a larger one In this Q&A, we ask James Ghawaly Jr., an assistant professor in the LSU College of Engineering with a joint appointment in the LSU Center for Computation & Technology (CCT), about his views on the future of AI research.

LSU Construction Management alumnus Bryan Wesley, vice president of Baton Rouge-based Wesley Construction, wanted to make this holiday season extra special for a family in need. Using his resources, Wesley reached out to volunteers from LSU Construction Student Association (CSA) and LSU Construction Industry Advisory Council (CIAC) to help build a playground in the back yard of a 5-year-old boy with a neurological disease through the Make-A-Wish Foundation.