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UMR students place first and second in black box competition
Students at UMR placed first and second in the Black Box Competition — where students try to figure out what is inside without looking — which was sponsored by the St. Louis section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and (IEEE) held Saturday, Oct. 23., on UMR’s campus.
Read More »UMR co-inventor of cancer-fighting glass beads inducted into National Academy of Engineering
Dr. Delbert Day, Curators’ Professor emeritus of ceramic engineering in the materials science and engineering department at UMR, was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in October. He is the first person in the history of the University of Missouri system to have achieved this honor.
Read More »UMR Theatre Players to perform "The Christmas Schooner" musical
Under the direction of John Woodfin, instructor of arts, languages and philosophy at the University of Missouri-Rolla, the UMR Theatre Players will open its fall season with the Missouri premier of John Reeger and Julie Shannon’s musical "The Christmas Schooner."
Read More »UMR student recognized for laser forming research
Jack Pennuto Jr. of Louisville, Ky., a graduate student in mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, recently received the "Best Student Paper Award" at the 23rd International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics held in San Francisco. Pennuto’s paper will appear in an upcoming edition of the Journal of Laser Applications.
Read More »UMR students learn engineering skills through online movies, games
Homework assignments in five sections of Basic Engineering 110, Mechanics of Materials, at UMR have gone digital and visual, thanks to a team of UMR researchers.
Read More »St. Louis artificial intelligence conference set for Nov. 7-10
Advances in "smart" engineering system design techniques from artificial life to data mining and "fuzzy" logic will be the focus of ANNIE 2004, the Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering conference to be held Nov. 7-10 at the Marriott Pavilion Hotel in St. Louis.
Read More »UMR researcher receives award for earthquake-related work
Dave Hoffman, a research engineer at UMR, recently received the Otto Nuttli Award from the St. Louis Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The award is named for the late Otto Nuttli, a former professor of seismology at St. Louis University, who was the reigning expert on the New Madrid Seismic Zone.
Read More »Junior high girls find the fun in math, science and engineering at UMR
On Friday, Nov. 5, more than 500 seventh- and eighth-grade girls will travel to the University of Missouri-Rolla campus to learn how fun science, mathematics, engineering and technology can be.
Read More »American Experience at Normandy featured in UMR historian’s new book
University of Missouri-Rolla military historian Dr. John C. McManus has published the second volume in a two-book series that examines the Normandy invasion from the American perspective.
Read More »UMR landscaping wins national award
The landscape services department at the University of Missouri-Rolla will receive national recognition for campus beauty and excellence in grounds maintenance at the 2004 Professional Grounds Management Society (PGMS) Green Star Awards ceremony to be held in Charlotte, N.C., in November.
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