Materials Science and Engineering
Ceramic engineering society named national chapter of the year
The Missouri University of Science and Technology chapter of Keramos, the national professional ceramic engineering society, was named chapter of the year by the national organization.
Read More »S&T’s Kent Peaslee named AIST president
Dr. Kent D. Peaslee, the F. Kenneth Iverson Chair of Steelmaking Technology and Curators’ Teaching Professor of metallurgical engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has been appointed president of the Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST) for 2012-2013. He succeeds past president R. Joseph Stratman, executive vice president of Nucor Corp. in Charlotte, N.C.
In 1990s, S&T researchers studied secrets of Titanic steel
Eighty-five years after the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic Ocean, a faculty member at Missouri University of Science and Technology answered one of maritime sleuths’ burning questions about the disaster: Was the steel used to build the ship at fault?
Read More »Nobel Prize-winning chemist Daniel Shechtman to speak at S&T
Professor Daniel Shechtman, the current Nobel Prize recipient in chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals, which turned the science of crystallography upside-down, will deliver the 23rd A. Frank Golick Lecture in Materials Science and Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Hilmas named Curators’ Professor
Dr. Gregory Hilmas has been named Curators’ Professor of ceramic engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Hilmas will be officially recognized during commencement ceremonies at S&T on Saturday, Dec. 17.
Read More »Cotton candy-like fibers repair wounds
Hard-to-heal open wounds may have met their match in the form of a cottony glass material developed at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
S&T faculty members receive UM System President’s Awards
Three faculty members from Missouri University of Science and Technology have received President’s Awards, the highest honor bestowed by the University of Missouri System, for excellence among the university’s four mission areas of teaching, research, service and economic development.
Read More »Delbert Day to receive Phoenix Award
Dr. Delbert Day, Curators’ Professor emeritus of materials science and engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has been named the 2010 Phoenix Award Glass Person of the Year, the glass industry’s top honor. The Phoenix Award is given annually to a living person who has made outstanding contributions to the industry.
Read More »S&T faculty and students receive University of Missouri System awards
Four of six awards presented by the University of Missouri System during its annual awards ceremony were presented to faculty and students from Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Read More »S&T students to bring clean water to Bolivia
Twenty-one students from Missouri University of Science and Technology will bring sustainable, clean water to portions of rural Bolivia this summer. Their goal goes beyond quenching thirsts; for these students, it’s about saving lives. In Bolivia, a lack of clean water contributes to the death of every tenth child before the age of 5.
