College of Engineering and Computing

Curators approve Missouri S&T semiconductor engineering program 

Posted by on February 6, 2025

The University of Missouri Board of Curators unanimously voted today (Feb. 6) to approve a new bachelor’s degree program in semiconductor engineering at Missouri S&T.

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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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Introducing ‘Batiacasphaera obohikuenobeae’: A species named to honor S&T professor 

Posted by on January 30, 2025

When paleontologists say the name “Oboh-Ikuenobe,” they may now need to clarify whether they mean their colleague, Dr. Francisca Oboh-Ikuenobe, or Batiacasphaera obohikuenobeae, an ancient microscopic fossil species from the Arctic Ocean recently named in her honor. 

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Making waves: S&T researcher awarded $750,000 DOE grant focused on hydropower 

Posted by on January 23, 2025

A Missouri S&T researcher is developing artificial intelligence and computational methods to help hydropower plant operators manage water and energy resources more efficiently and potentially pass on savings to consumers, with a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). 

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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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First Solar supports Missouri S&T efforts to secure critical materials supply chains

Posted by on January 21, 2025

First Solar, Inc. has established the Endowed Professorship in Critical Energy Materials in the materials science and engineering department at Missouri S&T. The decision to endow a professorship reflects the strategic alignment between the two organizations, which have collaborated on critical minerals, particularly tellurium, for the past decade.

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Missouri S&T-led critical minerals Tech Hub awarded $28.5 million in federal funds

Posted by on January 15, 2025

A Regional Innovation and Technology Hub (Tech Hub) led by Missouri S&T has secured $28.5 million in implementation funds from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) for its efforts focused on critical minerals processing.

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S&T professor, alumnus elected Fellow of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration  

Posted by on January 7, 2025

Dr. Michael Moats, professor and chair of materials science and engineering at Missouri S&T, has been elected to the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME) 2025 class of Fellows. 

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S&T freshman engineering, computing course redesigned to include focus on entrepreneurship 

Posted by on January 7, 2025

Over 1,000 engineering and computing students at Missouri S&T began their studies at S&T last semester with a focus on a topic university leaders say will play a growing role in their academic and professional careers — entrepreneurship. 

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Garner shares key professional decisions with S&T Ph.D. graduates

Posted by on December 20, 2024

Dr. Harold “Skip” Garner, chief scientific officer for Orbit Genomics, shared seven professional decisions with Ph.D. graduates of Missouri University of Science and Technology during the Ph.D. commencement ceremony held in the Gale Bullman Building at Missouri S&T on Friday, Dec. 13.

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