For the second time in 2004, a radio-controlled airplane designed by UMR students carried the most weight in an international student-design competition, and the team finished second overall in the event.

Dr. Daryl Beetner, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, recently received the national C. Holmes MacDonald Award as the Outstanding Young Electrical Engineering Professor for 2003 from Eta Kappa Nu, an electrical engineering honor society. It’s the first time a UMR faculty member has won the award since its […]

Started in January as part of a new capstone business course in the School of Management and Information Systems at the University of Missouri-Rolla, two student-run companies raised enough funds to repay their business loans and raise more than $5,000 for two local charities. The course was so successful the school plans to offer it […]

The University of Missouri-Rolla will offer a professional engineering review program for civil engineers this fall.

With more than 30 middle school and high school students on the University of Missouri-Rolla campus this week for the first-ever Hy-Tech Camps, one of the things they’re learning about is General Motor’s new AUTOnomy "skateboard" chassis, which is powered by hydrogen fuel cell technology.

Dr. Samuel Frimpong, professor of mining engineering and director of the Center for Advanced Minerals and Energy Research at the University of Alberta, Canada, will be the next Robert H. Quenon Chair of Mining Engineering at UMR, effective July 1.

Did you ever wonder why professional athletes are paid so much, what salary caps mean, or what the economic impact of building a new stadium could be? This fall, students at the University of Missouri-Rolla will have a chance to learn about these and other sports issues in a new course that will cover the […]

Boeing representative Robert Feldmann, program manager of the E/A-18G Program, presented a $225,000 donation to fund a new Boeing Scholars Program at the University of Missouri-Rolla on June 8.