Research

UMR students compete in artificial intelligence tournament

Posted by on December 28, 2004

Several computer science and computer engineering students at the University of Missouri-Rolla competed in the UMR computer science department’s fall 2004 Artificial Intelligence Tournament on campus in December.

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Connecting the (quantum) dots

Posted by on December 14, 2004

Imagine if your office laser printer could print text the size of atoms, then embed that ink into a writing surface as light as air. That, in a sense, is what researchers at UMR have done with a new "laser writing" technique they have developed. But with this process, the "ink" is a semiconductor that […]

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UMR students ditch the lab for field research

Posted by on December 6, 2004

Think of them as a CSI team minus the blood and guts.

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UMR researcher studying lead levels in St. Louis kids

Posted by on December 6, 2004

Roughly 200,000 houses in St. Louis might as well have the cross-stitched phrase "Home, sweet (and toxic), home" hanging in a frame on their living room wall, according to a University of Missouri-Rolla researcher.

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UMR to help General Motors hit ‘moving target’ of customer satisfaction

Posted by on December 2, 2004

A new technique to relate a vehicle’s technical performance with customer satisfaction may save General Motors significant time and cost and may lead to better product decisions, according to University of Missouri-Rolla researchers.

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UMR professor writes book on origin of ‘hot dog’

Posted by on November 29, 2004

Dr. Gerald Cohen, a professor of foreign languages at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has just published a 300-page book Origin of the Term ‘Hot Dog’ together with word sleuths Barry Popik and the late David Shulman.

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UMR lights up the skies with pyrotechnics course

Posted by on November 18, 2004

In the nation’s only pyrotechnics course offered for college credit, University of Missouri-Rolla students are lighting up the skies with fireworks displays at football games and other public events throughout Missouri.

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UMR co-inventor of cancer-fighting glass beads inducted into National Academy of Engineering

Posted by on October 27, 2004

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.

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UMR students learn engineering skills through online movies, games

Posted by on October 25, 2004

Homework assignments in five sections of Basic Engineering 110, Mechanics of Materials, at UMR have gone digital and visual, thanks to a team of UMR researchers.

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UMR researcher receives award for earthquake-related work

Posted by on October 22, 2004

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.

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