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UMR’s Human-Powered Vehicle Team wins national championship
A student design team at the University of Missouri-Rolla has won a national championship. UMR won its sixth-straight East Coast championship in human-powered vehicle racing May 11-13 in Ocala, Fla. The UMR team had already won the 2007 West Coast championship, which was held April 13-15 at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California.
Read More »UMR’s formula car is ready to roll
A team of students from the University of Missouri-Rolla has designed a formula-style racing car that can go from 0-60 mph in 3.2 seconds.
Read More »UMR students prepare for missions in Bolivia, Guatemala
Three groups from the Engineers Without Borders student chapter at the University of Missouri-Rolla are leaving this month for missions in Bolivia and Guatemala.
Read More »UMR professor selected as honorary member of engineering society
Dr. Franklin Cheng, Curators’ Professor emeritus of civil engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has been selected as an honorary member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Read More »Education bill provides funding to complete UMR project
Missouri lawmakers’ passage of legislation to fund capital improvement projects for higher education across the state means a long-delayed construction project on the University of Missouri-Rolla campus can proceed on schedule.
Read More »UMR Lunar Miners to take giant leap with robot
A new design team at the University of Missouri-Rolla will compete for a total of $250,000 on May 12 by putting its autonomous robot in a head-to-head competition against seven other excavators from the United States and Canada.
Read More »UMR named Missouri’s first NSA-designated university for cyber-security education
UMR students will soon be eligible for new scholarships and grants related to securing the nation’s information systems, thanks to the university’s designation as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAEIAE).
Read More »UMR team hopes to fly high in Texas
Members of the 2007 Advanced Aero Vehicle Group at the University of Missouri-Rolla are flying their remote-controlled aircraft in the Society of Automotive Engineers’ Aero Design Competition May 4-6 in Fort Worth, Texas.
Read More »Peaslee receives Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
Dr. Kent Peaslee, Curators’ Teaching Professor of metallurgical engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla and the F. Kenneth Iverson Chair of Steelmaking Technology at UMR, has won the 2007 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Read More »UMR helicopter design team navigates to first-place win
A multidisciplinary team of students from the University of Missouri-Rolla recently beat out Georgia Tech and the University of Alabama-Huntsville to capture a first-place finish with their small unmanned helicopter. The national competition was sponsored by the Redstone Chapter of the American Helicopter Society.
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