Environmental Engineering

S&T students earn innovation award at Tenaska Business Challenge

Posted by on March 5, 2026

Four students from Missouri S&T earned the “Most Innovative Solution” award at the Tenaska Business Challenge, a multi-university competition hosted at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln Feb. 25-27.

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Engineers Week Q&A: Dr. Mariam Al-Lami and the power of plants

Posted by on February 23, 2026

Dr. Mariam Al-Lami earned a Ph.D. in environmental engineering at Missouri S&T in 2022 and is now an S&T postdoctoral fellow. Here is a Q&A with Al-Lami in commemoration of National Engineers Week 2026.

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Q&A about S&T’s environmental science program

Posted by on September 29, 2025

In 2022, Missouri S&T began offering a bachelor’s degree in environmental science. The program, offered through S&T’s biological sciences department, draws on the university’s expertise in science, engineering, humanities and social science fields to help address the projected growth in demand for environmental scientists in Missouri and elsewhere.

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Missouri S&T’s Engineers Without Borders to visit South America for first time since pandemic

Posted by on April 27, 2023

Missouri S&T’s Engineers Without Borders team will soon be on the move and traveling to both Bolivia and Ecuador in May.

“These will be our team’s first international trips since before the COVID-19 pandemic,” says Anna Stephenson, a senior in chemical engineering who is the team’s project lead for the trip to Atahuallani, Bolivia. “It’s something we are all excited about. Our group has volunteered for our projects remotely, and now we will have the opportunity to be in the field.”

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Missouri S&T graduate engineering programs on the rise in U.S. News & World Report rankings

Posted by on April 24, 2023

Missouri S&T is again one of the nation’s top-ranked institutions for pursuing a graduate degree in engineering, and several specific degree programs are on the rise, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings.

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Updated: Missouri S&T to celebrate National Engineers Week with multiple speakers, events

Posted by on February 8, 2023

Missouri S&T will celebrate its engineering education heritage during National Engineers Week 2023, which runs from Feb. 19-25. Events include a talk by one of S&T’s three alumni to become a NASA astronaut, presentations on artificial intelligence and bioengineering, and outreach by student design team members at the Saint Louis Science Center.

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Top 10 ways S&T is solving for sustainability

Posted by on April 21, 2022

Friday, April 22, is Earth Day, the annual, global event designed to draw attention to the environmental issues facing our planet. Missouri S&T has hosted local Earth Day activities for the community since the 1980s and will again this year, thanks to the efforts of S&T’s student organizations. While S&T may be known more for […]

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S&T announces Undergraduate Research Conference winners

Posted by on May 12, 2021

Nineteen students in eight categories received recognition and cash awards as winners of the 16th annual Undergraduate Research Conference at Missouri S&T. The conference featured oral and poster exhibitions that represented work from students in nearly every major at Missouri S&T. First-place winners were awarded a cash prize of $500. Second- and third-place finishers received $250 and $100, respectively.

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Missouri S&T graduate engineering programs on the rise in U.S. News & World Report rankings

Posted by on March 30, 2021

Missouri S&T is again one of the nation’s top-ranked institutions for pursuing a graduate degree in engineering, and several specific degree programs are on the rise, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings.

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Engineering sustainability into the next century and beyond

Posted by on February 23, 2021

For the past 150 years, Missouri S&T (AKA Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy and the University of Missouri-Rolla) has produced world-changing engineers. At the intersection of S&T’s 150th anniversary and Engineers Week, we’re looking ahead at how engineering can lead the way for the next 150 years.

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