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 »Dan Waddill named chair of physics at UMR
Dr. Dan Waddill, professor of physics at the University of Missouri-Rolla and senior investigator in UMR’s Graduate Center for Materials Research, has been named chair of the physics department at UMR. The appointment took effect Aug. 1.
Read More »Incoming freshmen to find out what experiential learning is all about
New freshmen at the University of Missouri-Rolla are about to find out what experiential learning means — before they even get to their first classes.
Read More »UMR students help to blaze a better trail along the Continental Divide
Michelle Marincel and Brian Payne are helping to blaze a better trail along the Continental Divide. The two University of Missouri-Rolla students are participating in Backpacker Magazine’s effort to make a definitive map of the Continental Divide Trail, which runs 3,100 miles from Mexico to Canada.
Read More »UMR bringing hydrogen fuel to rural Missouri
Cleaner transportation is coming to rural Missouri, thanks to a joint effort among the University of Missouri-Rolla, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration, National University Transportation Center, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and the Defense Logistics Agency.
Read More »Annual shrimp feed planned
The Central Ozarks Section of the MSM-UMR Alumni Association and the Rolla Chapter of the Missouri Society of Professional Engineers will hold its annual shrimp feed on Saturday, Aug. 25, at Lions’ Club Park on U.S. Highway 63 in Rolla. A social hour begins at 4 p.m. followed by dinner at 5 p.m.
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 »UMR enters into mining engineering partnership with the University of Botswana
A delegation from the University of Botswana recently traveled to the University of Missouri-Rolla to formalize an agreement to collaborate on mining engineering endeavors.
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 […]
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