Tag: interdisciplinary

UMR interdisciplinary engineering department to get new chair

Posted by on December 11, 2007

Dr. Bonnie Bachman, a senior director at Flextronics International, will become the new chair of the interdisciplinary engineering department at the University of Missouri-Rolla effective Dec. 20. Dr. Ralph E. Flori, associate professor of interdisciplinary engineering, is serving as interim chair until Bachman arrives. Flori succeeds Dr. Ron Fannin, who has retired.

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UMR to award first IDE degrees during December commencement

Posted by on December 3, 2007

Jeremy Schueler and Kerry Poppa will become the first two students to be awarded bachelor of science degrees in interdisciplinary engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla.

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UMR MecMovies project wins prestigious MERLOT award

Posted by on May 10, 2006

MecMovies, instructional software created at the University of Missouri-Rolla to illustrate hard-to-visualize engineering concepts, has been picked to receive a 2006 MERLOT Classics Award and the Editors’ Choice Award for Exemplary Online Learning Resources.

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‘Green’ degree paying off for UMR graduate

Posted by on April 18, 2006

Leonor Valdez-Sanchez, the state’s first environmental engineering graduate, is enjoying life outside the classroom.

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