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Missouri S&T aerial robotic team to race drones
Near the end of July, a team of students from Missouri University of Science and Technology will compete in an intercollegiate aerial robotics event that some have described as a complex chess match for drones. The drones are designed and built by students, including their custom electronics.
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Video game to be based on book by S&T history professor
A book by a Missouri University of Science and Technology history professor is the basis for a tactical wartime video game set for release in 2018. Burden of Command follows the real-life missions of the U.S. Army’s 7th Infantry Regiment, also known as the “Cottonbalers,” during World War II, using American Courage, American Carnage, a […]
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Heather Castelli: world traveler, mechanical engineer
Up until last summer, Heather Castelli had visited more foreign countries than U.S. states.
“I follow in my grandfather’s footsteps,” says Castelli, a 2017 mechanical engineering graduate of Missouri S&T. “He left Hungary in 1956 at the start of the revolution. My grandmother is from there as well. It all comes back to them.”
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Final Rolla Town Band performance July 20
Hear the highlights of the Rolla Town Band’s 2017 season at its final concert of the year this July.
Read More »Filling the science communication gap
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Science communication can be hard to define, and even harder to teach. But an academic book co-edited by a technical communication professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology hopes to make the subject easier for instructors, and their students, to teach and learn. Dr. Kathyrn Northcut, professor and co-director of technical communication programs at […]
Read More »Energy-recycling steps eyed for post-surgical recovery, aging in place
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A Missouri University of Science and Technology researcher wants to make walking up and down stairs easier through the creation of a device that recycles the energy we use to climb and descend. Yun Seong Song, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri S&T, built the spring-loaded stairs as a postdoctoral researcher […]
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Automated security kiosk could alleviate travel, border woes
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An automated screening kiosk developed by a Missouri University of Science and Technology researcher could alleviate concerns about safety and wait time at U.S. airports and border crossings. Dr. Nathan Twyman, assistant professor of business and information technology at Missouri S&T, has been developing a next-generation automated screening kiosk since he was a Ph.D. student […]
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Missouri S&T earns eighth at solar car race
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Missouri University of Science and Technology’s Solar Car Design Team placed eighth in the Formula Sun Grand Prix. The race challenges collegiate teams to design and build solar-powered vehicles.
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Rolla Town Band to perform July 13
Band tunes will float through the downtown area this July when the Rolla Town Band performs its third concert of the season.
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Missouri S&T student team competes in finals of IEEE space antenna design contest
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A three-person team of Missouri S&T engineering students is headed to California to vie for top honors in an international competition to construct more reliable antennas used in space travel by small satellites. The student design contest, which begins Sunday in San Diego, is sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest technical professional association. The Missouri University of Science and Technology team is one of six finalists, including university teams from Canada and Sweden.
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Sports Headlines
- Miners add three more to 2017 men's soccer roster
- S&T's Glaser selected as GLVC Scholar-Athlete of Year in swimming
- S&T lands 14 on GLVC's Council of Presidents Academic Excellence list
- Miner baseball team to host Futures Camp on Sept. 10
- Missouri S&T has 29 named to first Distinguished Scholar List by GLVC