Author: Nancy Bowles

A good year for ECE

Posted by on October 26, 2021

Electrical and computing engineering (ECE) students and faculty have a long list of accomplishments for 2021.

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ECE alumnus takes his S&T degree to Meta

Posted by on October 26, 2021

Bichen Chen, EE’19, works at Meta – the parent company of Facebook – and lives in Menlo Park, California. We caught up with Bichen to see how his S&T degree has helped him in his career.

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Nidec donation makes big difference for students

Posted by on October 26, 2021

Missouri S&T undergraduates in the power lab have more elbow room and use industry-standard equipment thanks to a $100,000 donation from St. Louis-based Nidec Motor Corp. Jonathan Kimball, director of the Center for Research in Energy and the Environment and a professor of electrical and computer engineering, says the new lab makes a big difference.

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American Society of Civil Engineers 2022 president to speak at S&T

Posted by on October 18, 2021

Dr. Dennis D. Truax, the 2022 president of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), will present a talk titled “Engineering Our Future” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 20, on the Missouri S&T campus. He will discuss how ASCE envisions building a better infrastructure system using new methods and advanced materials to support a sustainable, inclusive and equitable society.

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S&T contributes to infrastructure durability and lifespan through national center

Posted by on October 15, 2021

As America’s infrastructure ages and climate change takes a toll on highways, railroads and bridges, Missouri S&T is researching stronger, longer-lasting materials and innovative technologies as a member of the only national university transportation center focused on improving the durability and extending the lifespan of infrastructure.

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Shining a light on data transfer

Posted by on October 10, 2021

Turning a light on and off doesn’t require much thought – click on, click off. But modulating that light – turning it on and off faster than the human eye can comprehend – and using the modulated light for Wi-Fi data transmission requires a great deal of thought, and it’s the focus on Nan Cen’s visible-light communications research.

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Building trust between humans and computer systems

Posted by on October 10, 2021

Technological systems were developed to make tasks easier for people. But our human biases may limit our trust of those systems. Venkata Sriram Siddhardh (Sid) Nadendla, assistant professor of computer science at Missouri S&T, focuses his research on building human-systems partnerships so that humans and computers work as a team.

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Pernicka named Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor

Posted by on October 1, 2021

Dr. Henry Pernicka, professor of aerospace engineering and Dean’s Educator Scholar at Missouri S&T, has been named Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor by the University of Missouri Board of Curators.

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S&T researchers use historical sea-level rise to estimate effects of ice-dam collapse

Posted by on September 30, 2021

How widespread will the effects be as polar ice caps melt in a warming climate and release fresh water into our oceans? An international research group led by Missouri S&T researchers may have found some answers after investigating a lake on the Caribbean coast of Guatemala.

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Nobel scholar to share climate change solutions in 2021 Stueck Lecture at Missouri S&T

Posted by on September 24, 2021

Dr. Don Wuebbles, professor emeritus of atmospheric science at the University of Illinois, calls climate change “the biggest challenge of our time.” Wuebbles, who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will discuss extreme weather events related to climate change and possible ways to slow and mitigate the challenge during the 2021 Stueck Lecture at Missouri S&T.

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