Research
UMR, Motorola work to improve performance of wireless communications
Researchers at UMR and Motorola Inc.’s Advanced Technology Center in Schaumburg, Ill., are developing three-dimensional switches and tiny fuel cells to improve the reception quality and extend the operating time for wireless communications and other wireless sensing devices.
Read More »Researchers, students help clean up Nebraska site
A UMR researcher and several students are helping find new ways to clean up contaminated groundwater at a former munitions site near Mead, Neb., by recycling the water through a special type of well.
Read More »UMR researchers make stronger, more efficient metal by making it flow like chewing gum
Researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla are patenting a process that makes metal stronger, more efficient and more cost effective — by making it flow like chewing gum. The result could be manufacturing improvements for the aircraft industry.
Read More »Protecting the power grid from terrorism
UMR researchers developing ways to protect power systems from overloads may also be developing a system to thwart terrorist threats to the nation’s power grid.
Read More »Trees: a clean, green pollution solution
A UMR researcher’s studies on how trees can help clean up the environment has received a $270,000 boost from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Read More »Researchers honored for drinking water studies
Dr. Craig Adams, the John and Susan Mathes Missouri Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, and three co-authors have received the 2003 Rudolph Hering Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers for his research into the removal of antibiotics in drinking water. The research could become instrumental if governmental agencies require […]
Read More »Energy Department funds superconductivity research
Imagine living in a superconductive world. Electricity is transmitted through wires with no resistance and no loss of energy. Trains levitate above their tracks. An electric charge moving in a loop circles indefinitely — the closest thing known to perpetual motion. Although this sounds like science fiction, a group from the UMR is trying to […]
Read More »AI makes smart chips smarter, faster
Analyzing the accuracy of a computer chip’s layout will be faster and more efficient, thanks to the work of a UMR Ph. D. student who has developed a way to use fuzzy logic and neural networks to analyze printed circuit layouts.
Read More »UMR Solar Car Team: 2003 National Champions!
The UMR Solar Car Team cruised into Claremont, Calif., on July 23 to capture the 2003 American Solar Challenge — the national championship of solar car racing.
Read More »Man-made wetlands remove toxins from water supply near lead smelter
Researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla are involved in the construction of a wetland near a mine and smelter plant in southeastern Missouri to help remove lead and other toxins from the water supply.
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