Dr. Delbert Day, Curators’ Professor emeritus of ceramic engineering in the materials science and engineering department at UMR, was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in October. He is the first person in the history of the University of Missouri system to have achieved this honor.

Dave Hoffman, a research engineer at UMR, recently received the Otto Nuttli Award from the St. Louis Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The award is named for the late Otto Nuttli, a former professor of seismology at St. Louis University, who was the reigning expert on the New Madrid Seismic Zone.

UMR students were honored during the 50th annual Association of Missouri Geologists meeting held recently in Rolla, Mo.

Automotive manufacturers may soon benefit from a new breed of metals known as functionally gradient materials that can withstand the high temperatures of die casting without cracking under pressure, according to a researcher at UMR.