Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Missouri S&T students exhibit research to state legislators

Posted by on March 14, 2025

Twelve undergraduate students from Missouri University of Science and Technology traveled to Jefferson City, Missouri, on March 13 to participate in the annual Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol. The event, which is designed to inform Missouri’s lawmakers about research at Missouri universities, welcomes undergraduate students from all four University of Missouri System campuses. Student […]

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The freedom to explore

Posted by on March 13, 2025

Conleigh Hardin, a senior in civil engineering from Austin, Texas, attended a large high school but was in a program with fewer than 200 students. She liked the scaled down, personal feeling of it, and when it was time to decide on a college, she chose Missouri S&T for its size relative to the huge engineering colleges closer to home.

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Missouri S&T researcher’s robotic bridge inspection system earns ASCE’s 2025 Pankow Award 

Posted by on February 28, 2025

A researcher at Missouri S&T has developed a robotic system to make bridge inspections faster, more comprehensive and safer. Dr. Genda Chen’s invention, called the Bridge Inspection Robot Deployment System, or BIRDS, has been selected for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2025 Charles Pankow Award for Innovation. 

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Engineers Week: How a kindergarten lesson fuels an S&T student’s environmental focus 

Posted by on February 20, 2025

Jane Yates, a junior in environmental engineering at Missouri S&T, may aspire to one day earn a Ph.D. in her field — but she credits a lesson from kindergarten as the driving force behind her determination. 

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Waste containment expert, NAE member to speak at S&T Feb. 12  

Posted by on February 6, 2025

Dr. Craig Benson, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, will speak at Missouri S&T at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, as part of S&T’s Shamsher and Sally Prakash Distinguished Lecture Series. 

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Did the COVID-19 lockdowns really affect lunar temperatures?

Posted by on January 21, 2025

Almost five years ago, much of the world went quiet for several weeks due to the COVID-19 lockdowns. It went so quiet, in fact, that scholars published a 2024 article in a Royal Astronomical Society publication claiming the lack of human activity likely led to the Moon’s surface temperatures cooling down in April and May of 2020.

But researchers from Missouri S&T and the University of West Indies (UWI) in St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, are now challenging those findings in a new article published this year in that same journal. 

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S&T’s College of Engineering and Computing staff, faculty receive awards

Posted by on December 11, 2024

Missouri S&T’s College of Engineering and Computing held its Fall 2024 awards ceremony last week at the Havener Center, and several staff and faculty members were presented with honors. 

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Oerther receives global award for engineering education

Posted by on December 5, 2024

Dr. Daniel B. Oerther, an environmental health engineering professor at Missouri S&T, has been awarded the Duncan Fraser Global Award for Excellence in Engineering Education from the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES). 

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S&T researchers listed as most prolific authors for their topics in Scopus  

Posted by on November 27, 2024

Fourteen researchers associated with Missouri S&T are listed as the most prolific contributors in their topics from 2019 to 2023 in Scopus — a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database and website, scopus.com, maintained by the Elsevier publishing company.  

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Maryland lieutenant governor, S&T alumna returns to Rolla Dec. 4 for Chancellor’s Speaker Series

Posted by on November 18, 2024

Aruna Miller, lieutenant governor of Maryland and an alumna of Missouri S&T, will speak at the university Wednesday, Dec. 4 for the Chancellor’s Speaker Series.

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