Dr. Song won the Faculty Excellence for Outstanding Impact, College of Engineering, University of Alabama, April 2025. The award highlights individual faculty members’ outstanding impacts in teaching, research, and service.
Song’s impact award
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Carter defended
Congrats to Carter Pate for successfully defending his Masters Thesis, Acoustic Communication and Control of Compact Autonomous Underwater Vehicles on June 13, 2025. Now he is ready to graduate with a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering. Congrats!
Joyce recognized
Joyce Ma won the Fred Maxwell Jr. Award at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alabama, for her academic performance, research involvement, and services during the 2024-2025 academic year.
Mu-net student and research featured
Brodie Alexander, a student in the mu-Net lab, is featured as in the University ‘Where Legends Are Made’ campaign: “Engineering your Impact: https://legends.ua.edu/engineering-your-impact/. The video story can be accessed at https://youtu.be/dTHwDkDGNLs.
Where Are Legends Made? mu-Net Lab!
The University of Alabama’s 2024 ‘Where Legends Are Made’ campaign videos featuring muNet lab student, Brodie Alexander, and muNet research.
https://youtu.be/1cwwUYogeX0?si=ZhQ8FZLxx5_7f5bc
muNet deployment camp: July 22-25
We had our first installment of the deployment camp, July 22 to 25, 2024. Seven participants joined. They were five graduate students and two faculty members from Lehigh University, Northeastern University, University of Notre Dame, University of Utah, and Purdue University.
The deployment camp allows external students to participate in field operations with our lake testbed. My team works with guest students to deploy underwater robots at the lake of Tuscaloosa and collect acoustic measurements during the camp. We have lots of fun.
Anika recently selected to receive the Mitchell Scholarship
One of muNet members, Anika Cho, was recently selected as one of two UA seniors to receive the Mitchell Scholarship. The scholarship, which is named to honor former U.S. Senator George Mitchell’s contributions to the Northern Ireland peace process, connects future American leaders to the island of Ireland while recognizing achievement, leadership and a commitment to service. Please join us in congratulating Anika on this outstanding honor and read the full announcement to learn more about the award.
https://news.ua.edu/2023/11/two-ua-seniors-awarded-mitchell-scholarships/
Congratulations to you, Anika.
muNet research and students are highlighted
The University of Alabama released a new promotion video about its water research: “UA: The Epicenter of the New Water Economy.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loEND7lBpdk
muNet lab and students are featured; see the video at 0:43, 1:21, 1:39, 1:51.
Two new PhD students joined mu-Lab
We are excited that two new PhD students joined our lab: Kai Liu and Bishal and Bishal Karmakar, in the fall of 2023.
SeaMATE 2023
Another year of SeaMATE competition! muNet lab has been mentoring the robotics team at the local Northridge High School (NHS). The NHS formed four sub-teams and attended the at the 10th Annual Northern Gulf Coast Regional Competition for the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) program from April 28 to 30, 2023. The four sub-teams of the NHS won the following three awards.NHS HydroHelix team: first place in the Scout class.
NHS PurpleTape: third place in the Navigator class.
NHS PureTide: third place in the Ranger class.
We thank Dr. Sevgi Gurbuz for her great support as the Team Manager. We thank all the parents (Meghan North, Dr. Hwan-Sik Yoon and Nahree Doh, CJ Lee and Gina Doh, Dr. Daniel Gibson, Margo Spring, Lisa Duan and Robert Yan, Robert Fuller, Vernon Boone, Prabharkar Clement, etc.) for their support. We thank Mrs. Fuller for sponsoring the robotics team. Without her support, we would not have had this trip. We thank the undergraduate researchers, Brodie Alexander and Anika Cho, for their support/help around the clock.
