Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Missouri S&T to host Private Pilot Ground School this fall

Posted by on August 17, 2015

Missouri University of Science and Technology’s department of mechanical and aerospace engineering is sponsoring a Private Pilot Ground School this fall through Missouri S&T’s distance and continuing education program.

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Campus flora fuels researcher’s imagination

Posted by on August 12, 2015

To improve fuel cell efficiency, Dr. Umit Koylu looks to the trees outside his office.

Koylu, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has received a six-month $50,000 Innovation Corps Teams (I Corps) Program grant from the National Science Foundation to accelerate tech-transfer and explore commercialization of a biology-inspired polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell. And the campus flora is his inspiration.

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Missouri S&T student teams with NASA

Posted by on June 11, 2015

Missouri University of Science and Technology aerospace engineering doctoral student Matt Glascock has received the NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship through NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate.

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Researchers demonstrate ‘no-ink’ color printing with nanomaterials

Posted by on June 6, 2015

Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology are giving new meaning to the term “read the fine print” with their demonstration of a color printing process using nanomaterials.

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Missouri S&T’s Yucelen wins ORAU’s Powe research award

Posted by on June 3, 2015

Dr. Tansel Yucelen, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, is one of 35 faculty members in the nation to win a competitive research grant through the Oak Ridge Associated Universities Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Program.

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Missouri S&T’s Pan wins ORAU’s Powe research award

Posted by on May 28, 2015

Dr. Heng Pan, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, is one of 35 faculty members in the nation to win a competitive research grant through the Oak Ridge Associated Universities Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Program.

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Helicopter pilot described as academically gifted, dedicated to service

Posted by on May 16, 2015

UPDATE (Sunday, May 17, 2015): The U.S. military joint task force in Okinawa, Japan, has confirmed the identity of Capt. Norgren and all other crew members. Marine Capt. Chris Norgren, a 2007 graduate of Missouri University of Science and Technology who has been identified as the pilot of a military helicopter that crashed in Nepal […]

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Missouri S&T announces Chancellor’s Challenge Award

Posted by on May 12, 2015

The Council of Graduate Students at Missouri University of Science and Technology was honored Tuesday, May 12, with the Chancellor’s Challenge Award for leadership, strategic vision and notable efforts to implement the university’s strategic plan, “Rising to the Challenge: Missouri S&T’s Strategy for Success.”

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John F. Eash to lead corporate relations at Missouri S&T

Posted by on May 12, 2015

John F. Eash, division director for Supplier Quality Regional Operations for The Boeing Co. and a 1979 aerospace engineering graduate of Missouri University of Science and Technology, has been named executive director of corporate relations at Missouri S&T. The appointment begins Aug. 3.

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Riggins receives Governor’s Award for Excellence in Education

Posted by on April 23, 2015

Dr. David Riggins, Curators’ Teaching Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has won the 2015 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Education.

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