Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
41 S&T faculty members honored for outstanding teaching
Forty-one Missouri University of Science and Technology faculty members will receive the Outstanding Teaching Award for 2014-2015. The winners will be recognized at a ceremony scheduled t 1:30 p.m. p.m. Monday, Nov. 30, in St. Pat’s Ballroom A of the Havener Center. The Outstanding Teaching Award is given each year to faculty members by the Outstanding Teaching Award Committee, which bases its selections on student evaluations.
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Learn about Missouri’s efforts to clean up waterways at S&T
Learn about the state’s efforts to protect and improve area water sources at a lecture by Sara Parker Pauley, director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) on the Missouri University of Science and Technology campus.
Read More »Missouri S&T to host fourth annual Transportation Infrastructure Conference
Missouri University of Science and Technology will host the fourth annual Transportation Infrastructure Conference on Friday, Dec. 4, at the Allied Health Professional Building on the Saint Louis University campus. The program will feature recent findings in advanced construction materials, resilient structural systems, non-destructive testing and structural health monitoring of transportation infrastructure.
The registration fee is $70 or $50 for students and includes a CD of conference proceedings, a Professional Development Hour (PDH) certificate, parking, lunch and coffee breaks.
Read More »Khayat named RILEM Fellow
Dr. Kamal Khayat, the Vernon and Maralee Jones Professor of Civil Engineering and director of the Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studies at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has been named a Fellow of RILEM, the International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures.
“The award of a RILEM Fellowship is a rare honor,” says RILEM president Mark Alexander. “It is given for exceptional contributions to the work of RILEM and includes aspects such as scientific contributions and developmental contributions.”
Read More »Asphalt conference paves the way at Missouri S&T
Missouri University of Science and Technology will host its 58th annual Asphalt Conference on November 9-10.
The conference should be of interest to contractors, public agencies, consulting engineers, testing labs, aggregate producers, asphalt binder suppliers and equipment technical reps. Personal Development Hours (PDH) will be awarded.
Read More »Robert R. Holmes named Civil Engineer of the Year
Dr. Robert R. Holmes, an adjunct professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology and a U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist, will receive the 2015 Government Civil Engineer of the Year award on Oct. 13 in New York.
Established by the Government Engineers Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the award recognizes distinguished civil engineers employed in public service for significant engineering contributions.
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Missouri S&T’s Engineers Without Borders works to provide drinking water in Bolivia
The student chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) at Missouri University of Science and Technology is heading to Tacachia, Bolivia, before the start of the fall semester to continue its work to provide access to safe drinking water for the Andean community.
Read More »A sixth-place finish for Missouri S&T’s Big Beam Team
A team of civil engineering students from Missouri University of Science and Technology finished sixth in the nation in a “big beam” competition.
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Missouri S&T researcher earns $1 million EPA grant to study climate change effects on indoor air quality
Missouri University of Science and Technology will receive a $1 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to fund research on the impacts of climate change on indoor air quality and resulting health effects.
Read More »What can be done about a water shortage?
The water crisis in the western United States – most notably in California and Washington – may be the most severe and most publicized, but other threats to the nation’s water supply loom, says Dr. Joel Burken, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
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