Tag: Engineering

UMR students help Central, South Americans

Posted by on April 13, 2006

This summer, students from the University of Missouri-Rolla will use their passion for engineering to show their compassion for residents in two tiny villages in Bolivia and Guatemala.

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UMR students take first in helicopter design competition

Posted by on April 11, 2006

A multidisciplinary team of students from the University of Missouri-Rolla took the $5,000 top prize this month in a helicopter design competition sponsored by the Huntsville, Ala., chapter of the American Helicopter Society.

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UMR Weiner Professor to discuss ethics of health care system April 19

Posted by on April 10, 2006

Dr. Wade Robison, an expert on the ethics of the U.S. health care system, will give a lecture titled, Flipping for Health Care at noon Wednesday, April 19, in Room G-5 Humanities-Social Sciences Building on the University of Missouri-Rolla campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.

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UMR study tackles pollution prevention at power plants

Posted by on April 6, 2006

America’s desire for cheap electricity, generated by the nation’s coal-fired power plants, comes with a hidden environmental concern, says a University of Missouri-Rolla researcher.

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UMR bridge project picked as finalist for engineering award

Posted by on April 4, 2006

The Civil Engineering Research Foundation (CERF) has selected University of Missouri-Rolla’s Greene County bridge project as one of two finalists for the foundation’s 2006 Charles Pankow Award for Innovation.

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U.S. News again ranks UMR among top graduate engineering programs

Posted by on March 31, 2006

The University of Missouri-Rolla is again one of the nation’s top graduate engineering schools, according to U.S. News and World Report’s latest rankings of graduate schools. The rankings also list five UMR programs as among the best in the country.

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Orchestras to perform March 23 at UMR

Posted by on March 15, 2006

The University of Missouri-Rolla’s University and Community Orchestra and the University Chamber Orchestra will hold a performance at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 23, in Leach Theatre of Castleman Hall, 10th and Main streets in Rolla.

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Online student self service upgrade improves navigation

Posted by on March 13, 2006

Faculty entering mid-term grades and students preparing to register will notice some changes to Joe’SS thanks to a recent upgrade to a new version of the “self-service” PeopleSoft Student Administration System.

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UMR students take top prize in ASCE Geo-Congress 2006

Posted by on March 6, 2006

A team from the University of Missouri-Rolla finished in first place at the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Information Mining and Geotechnical Site Characterization Design competition held Feb. 26. The competition was held during ASCE Geo-Institute’s Geo-Congress 2006, a national conference that focused on “Geotechnical Engineering in the Information Technology Age.”

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UMR Greeks rank among nation’s best

Posted by on March 3, 2006

Students from the Panhellenic Council at the University of Missouri-Rolla have been nationally recognized for management, leadership and educational development, and membership recruitment.

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