Tag: Engineering
UMR performing arts series to feature eight shows during the upcoming season
The 2006-2007 season of the University of Missouri-Rolla Campus Performing Arts Series will feature eight professional productions. All performances in the series will be held at Leach Theatre of Castleman Hall on the UMR campus, 10th and Main streets in Rolla.
Read More »UMR students to help Bolivians increase water supply
A team from the Engineers Without Borders (EWB) chapter at the University of Missouri-Rolla will journey into Bolivia’s rainforests next month on a fact-finding mission.
Read More »Donors increase endowments, establish faculty chairs
The University of Missouri-Rolla has received two new gifts from major donors to endow chairs in the civil, architectural and environmental engineering department.
Read More »Two interim deans appointed at UMR
Two department chairs at the University of Missouri-Rolla have been named interim deans.
Read More »Laudon named chair of geological sciences and engineering department
Dr. Robert Laudon, professor of geological sciences and engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has been named chair of UMR’s department of geological sciences and engineering. Laudon replaces Dr. Jeffrey Cawlfield, who was recently named director of freshman engineering at UMR.
Read More »Incoming freshmen to participate in UMR’s version of ‘X Games’
New freshmen will spend a good part of their first week at the University of Missouri-Rolla designing and racing remote-controlled vehicles through campus as part of Project X, UMR’s version of the X Games.
Read More »UMR creates scholar program with University of Naples Federico II
Six graduate students from the University of Naples Federico II, founded in 1224 in Naples, Italy, are conducting research this summer at the University of Missouri-Rolla as part of a new scholar program between the two universities.
Read More »UMR receives ASEE membership award
The American Society for Engineering Education presented the University of Missouri-Rolla with a membership award at the society’s annual conference June 19 in Chicago.
Read More »Jeff Cawlfield named director of freshman engineering at UMR
Dr. Jeffrey Cawlfield, professor and interim chair of geological sciences and engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, will become director of the university’s freshman engineering program, effective July 1.
Read More »Creation through destruction
The old Mechanical Engineering Annex, built in 1902, is history. The demolition, which took several months, started early this year. Now, concrete has been poured on the vacant site and the steel beams of a brand new structure are starting to rise.
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