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UMR researcher uses casting method to improve molds used in auto parts
A good wax mold lies behind every fast car. And a UMR researcher’s efforts to improve wax investment casting — a technique with roots dating back to ancient Egypt and China — should make fast cars even more efficient by improving the quality and strength of the mold shells used to create engine parts.
Read More »UMR student, minority engineering director honored at black engineers conference
A University of Missouri-Rolla electrical engineering student and the director UMR’s Minority Engineering and Science Program (MEP) were honored at the National Society of Black Engineers Region V Fall Conference, held Oct. 31-Nov.2 in St. Louis.
Read More »Emily Rueck named Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant at UMR
Emily A. Rueck of Rolla, Mo., a teaching assistant in UMR’s mathematics and statistics department, was named the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant for 2003 by the University of Missouri-Rolla Parents’ Association.
Read More »Woman provides pillar of support, named UMR 2003 Parent of the Year
Sheila Agee of St. Joseph, Mo., the 2003 Parent of the Year at UMR, provides a "pillar of support" to her son, R.J. Agee, a senior in engineering management at UMR, and others during hard times.
Read More »UMR author’s new textbook offers advice on building solar cars
A new textbook by the advisor to the University of Missouri-Rolla’s championship Solar Car Team may help level the playing field in solar car races by teaching students to focus on what matters, such as making their cars energy efficient.
Read More »Solar flares: is iron-rich sun the cause?
The spate of solar storms to hit Earth in recent days may be caused by the sun’s iron-rich interior, says a UMR researcher who theorizes that the sun’s core is made of iron rather than hydrogen.
Read More »Miner Mania hits the UMR stage Nov. 13
Members of the University of Missouri-Rolla marching band will present Miner Mania, a stage show featuring the highlights of the 2003 marching band season, on Thursday, Nov. 13.
Read More »Expert in southern women writers named 2004 Maxwell C. Weiner Professor at UMR
Dr. Anne Goodwyn Jones, an expert in women writers of the American South, has been named the fourth Maxwell C. Weiner Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of Missouri-Rolla. She will begin her tenure in UMR’s English department in January 2004.
Read More »UMR lights up the skies with pyrotechnics course
In the nation’s only pyrotechnics course offered for college credit, UMR students are lighting up the skies with fireworks displays at football games and other public events throughout Missouri.
Read More »UMR professor’s research into minimizing electrical power grid blackouts wins engineering award
Dr. G.K. Venayagamoorthy, assistant professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at UMR, and two colleagues recently received a second-place paper award from the Industrial Automation and Control Committee (IACC) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Industry Applications Society for their research into the use of advanced intelligent techniques to operate […]
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