Research
Heat wave may stress nation’s power system
Increasing demands on an aging U.S. power infrastructure are likely to make headlines this week as temperatures in the Midwest and South approach 100 degrees. The nation’s economic growth since the 1950s has “outstripped the growth of the power system,” says Dr. Mariesa Crow, the Fred W. Finley Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering […]
Read More »Bridges can be retrofitted to improve blast resistance, say UMR researchers
After completing a series of explosions at nearby Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla say they are still confident their retrofitting techniques could improve a bridge’s ability to withstand everything from blasts to earthquakes to old age.
Read More »Applied design of experiments: UMR’s "Mythbusters"
As part of her “mission to bring cool stuff to engineering,” Dr. Katie Grantham Lough, assistant professor of interdisciplinary engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has teamed up with Missouri high school students to develop forensics experiments based on the Discovery Channel hit show “Mythbusters” and possibly create the nation’s first undergraduate degree program in […]
Read More »UMR professor’s invention may quiet electric motor industry
A University of Missouri-Rolla researcher and two of his colleagues have received a patent for a system that could improve the performance of electric motors.
Read More »UMR helping MoDOT meet biodiesel mandate
If the Missouri Department of Transportation improved its sources of biodiesel, the department would be able to meet a state mandate that calls for fueling at least 75 percent of its diesel fleet and heavy equipment with biodiesel. That suggestion is part of a list of best practices being developed for MoDOT by a University […]
Read More »UMR researchers find arsenic, lead in New Orleans’ sediment
A recent report from researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla says the team found concentrations of leachable arsenic and lead in excess of drinking water standards in a number of sediment and soil samples it collected from New Orleans’ parishes in 2005.
Read More »UMR chemist is one of 15 to receive international Nano 50 award
Dr. Nicholas Leventis, professor of chemistry at the University of Missouri-Rolla, is one of 15 innovators included in the 2007 Nano 50 Awards presented by Nanotech Briefs magazine, the publication announced Thursday, June 14. Leventis is being recognized for his groundbreaking research in the development of polymer cross-linked aerogels.
Read More »UMR’s Jay Switzer receives University of Missouri Presidential Award
Dr. Jay A. Switzer, the Donald L. Castleman Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Missouri-Rolla, received the Presidential Award for Research and Creativity from the University of Missouri.
Read More »UMR researcher receives Young Investigator Award from naval research office
Dr. Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and the director of the Real-Time Power and Intelligent Systems (RTPIS) Laboratory at the University of Missouri-Rolla, received a three-year, $405,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), as one of the 33 recipients of the ONR’s Young Investigator Award in 2007. The […]
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