Tag: engineering management

A passion for organization

Posted by on February 8, 2006

For as long as she can remember, Jessica (Marshall) Crouch, EMgt’99, MS EMgt’00, has been helping other people get organized.

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Ty Cobb: Global entrepreneurship

Posted by on February 8, 2006

Related to one of baseball’s fiercest competitors, Ty Cobb has the drive to succeed in his blood.

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Speaker to give free motivational talks at UMR

Posted by on December 21, 2005

Motivational speaker James Lucas will address how to develop and maintain a passion for work in two talks on Friday, Jan. 27, 2006, at the University of Missouri-Rolla.

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ASEM honors engineering management faculty, alumni

Posted by on November 15, 2005

Three faculty members from UMR’s engineering management and systems engineering department and two recent Ph.D. recipients from that department were honored by the American Society of Engineering Management during ASEM’s annual conference Oct. 26-29 in Virginia Beach, Va.

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Academy honors outstanding professionals in engineering management

Posted by on September 30, 2005

Seven engineering management professionals were honored by the University of Missouri-Rolla when they were inducted into UMR’s Academy of Engineering Management Thursday, Sept. 29.

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Virtual facilitator could help teams solve problems faster, say UMR researchers

Posted by on August 15, 2005

Inefficient, unproductive meetings — like those satirized in Scott Adams’ “Dilbert” cartoon — are the bane of the modern workplace, but two University of Missouri-Rolla professors are looking to reverse that with new software to help people share ideas and stick to an agenda.

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Free summer workshops will help students, teachers ‘discover’ manufacturing processes

Posted by on March 25, 2005

Two free, hands-on summer workshops designed to help students and educators alike make sense of the manufacturing process have been set at the University of Missouri-Rolla. The workshops, titled "Discover Manufacturing," are sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s Advance Technological Education Program, UMR’s Manufacturing Engineering program, and the Advanced Manufacturing Center at St. Louis Community […]

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UMR scholar publishes engineering exam study guide

Posted by on February 14, 2005

A new study guide by a University of Missouri-Rolla associate professor may help engineering students earn their professional engineering license by reviewing the basics of industrial engineering, common mistakes, and sample problems found in the industrial engineering portion of the national Fundamentals of Engineering exam.

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UMR professor receives Fulbright Scholar award

Posted by on December 30, 2004

Dr. Halvard E. Nystrom, associate professor of engineering management at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and conduct research for a semester at the Modern College of Business and Science in Muscat, Oman, starting in January 2005.

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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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