Tag: explosives engineering

Ph.D. in explosives engineering offered this fall at Missouri S&T

Posted by on August 28, 2014

Missouri University of Science and Technology will offer the nation’s first Ph.D. in explosives engineering beginning this fall. The new doctorate will help the university fill critical shortfalls in government and industry. In the mining industry alone, more than 5,000 engineers will retire in the next decade.

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S&T offers nation’s first Ph.D. in explosives engineering

Posted by on February 11, 2014

Missouri University of Science and Technology has been approved by the Coordinating Board for Higher Education to offer the nation’s first Ph.D. in explosives engineering. Missouri S&T was also the first in the nation to offer undergraduate and post-graduate minors in explosives engineering in 2005, a postgraduate certificate in 2006, and a master’s degree in […]

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Curators approve nation’s first Ph.D. in explosives engineering

Posted by on November 21, 2013

A pioneering program in explosives engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology is poised to expand to the doctoral level. The University of Missouri System Board of Curators voted to approve the degree program at its Nov. 21 meeting. The program now must be approved by the Coordinating Board of Higher Education.

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Summer campers to practice the art of blowing stuff up

Posted by on May 18, 2007

High school students from as far away as Hawaii and Egypt are planning trips to Rolla, Mo., next month to practice the art of blowing stuff up.

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Detonators and Dynamite! UMR’s Explosives Camp is back

Posted by on May 22, 2006

Where else can high school students learn how to blow stuff up in a supervised environment?         

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High school students come to UMR to blow up summer camp stereotype

Posted by on June 29, 2005

Stereotypical summer camps revolve around swimming and singing “Kumbaya.” At the University of Missouri-Rolla this summer, eighteen high school students are set to blow up that stereotype.

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