Ten undergraduate students at the University of Missouri-Rolla are learning how to balance humanity’s impact on the environment with the world’s growing engineering needs as part of a new degree program that began last fall. The students are enrolled in the state’s first environmental engineering degree program, one of the few available in the Midwest.

ROLLA, Mo. Two UMR student teams will test their mettle and engineering skills on Thursday, April 22, through Saturday, April 24, when they take part in regional bridge-building and concrete canoe competitions at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Lincoln, Neb.

Ceramic engineering students at the UMR will compete in several competitions at the American Ceramic Society’s annual meeting April 18-21 in Indianapolis, Ind.

The UMR women’s and men’s mucking teams both finished in first place during the 26th International Intercollegiate Mining Competition held April 3 in Butte, Mont.

Keith Bailey, a member of the University of Missouri-Rolla Board of Trustees and retired chair, president and chief executive officer of The Williams Companies Inc. of Tulsa, Okla., will discuss leadership and engineering education at two upcoming forums on campus.

UMR students hope to repeat last year’s first place finish in an international radio-controlled airplane competition April 16-18 in Deland, Fla.