Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
S&T’s Renaissance Student Award goes to Jane Yates
Jane Yates, a senior in environmental engineering from Knob Noster, Missouri, has been named Missouri S&T’s Renaissance Student for 2026. Yates received the award, which included a $1,300 prize, on Tuesday, May 5, at a ceremony hosted by the arts, languages, and philosophy department.
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Supersonic success: S&T scholars sharpen wind tunnel simulations
Researchers at Missouri S&T have developed a more accurate way to predict conditions inside wind tunnels that are used to study how air behaves at speeds up to four times faster than the speed of sound, or over 3,000 miles per hour.
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Missouri S&T professor receives Wound Healing Society’s Early-Career faculty award
Dr. Fateme Fayyazbakhsh, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri S&T, was awarded the Wound Healing Society’s 2026 Early-Career Faculty Award during the organization’s annual meeting held earlier this month in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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S&T opens Missouri Protoplex for advanced manufacturing
Nearly 500 people celebrated the opening of the Missouri Protoplex on April 15 at the new facility, located at 1700 White Columns Drive in Rolla. The 117,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility is the first building in Missouri S&T’s Manufacturing Technology and Innovation Campus.
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U.S. News: Missouri S&T remains state’s top public grad school for engineering
Missouri S&T rose in the national rankings again this year, remaining the state’s top public graduate school for engineering and placing among the nation’s best, according to the U.S. News & World Report rankings released Tuesday, April 7.
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Celebrate future of manufacturing at Missouri Protoplex ribbon-cutting April 15
Missouri S&T will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Missouri Protoplex, a new 117,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility, at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 15. Attendees should RSVP for the event at go.mst.edu/protoplexrsvp by Wednesday, April 8.
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What’s in a name? For Chase Stem, leader of S&T’s world-champ Mars rover team — a lot
In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare asks, “What’s in a name?” suggesting that a name alone does not define who someone will become.
But for one Missouri S&T student who has spent years chasing opportunities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), his name may have been more fitting than anyone could have predicted.
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30 Missouri S&T researchers rank among world’s top 0.05% of scholars
Researchers affiliated with Missouri S&T are among the top 0.05% cited scholars in the world, recognized either for their lifetime of work or for research over the past five years, according to the 2025 Highly Ranked Scholars list developed by ScholarGPS.
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S&T’s College of Engineering and Computing honors staff, faculty members
Missouri S&T’s College of Engineering and Computing recently held its fall 2025 awards ceremony, and several staff and faculty members were presented with honors.
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