Tag: mechanical and aerospace engineering
Why predicting battery performance is like forecasting traffic − and how researchers are making progress
Lithium-ion batteries are quietly powering large parts of the world, including electric vehicles and smartphones. They have revolutionized how people store and use energy. But as these batteries become more central to daily life, they bring more attention to the challenges of managing them and the energy they store safely, efficiently and intelligently.
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KUKA Robotics president returns to Rolla for lab dedication
When Jack Pennuto first came to Missouri S&T in 2000, he was an aspiring mechanical engineer excited to join the S&T men’s swimming team. When the now 23-time All-American swimmer returned to his alma mater this spring, he came as the president of U.S. operations for KUKA Robotics.
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Engineers Week: Recent S&T grad works for company that developed robotic system for mother’s surgery
A December 2024 graduate of Missouri S&T is putting his knowledge and skills to work for the company behind the robotic system used to perform his mother’s minimally invasive cancer surgery.
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Engineers Week: Q&A with Dr. David Bayless about becoming a professional engineer
Dr. David Bayless is chair and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri S&T. In commemoration of National Engineers Week 2025, here is a Q&A with Bayless focused on the professional engineer credential.
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Soon-to-be S&T graduate: When in doubt, just remember ‘Sí se puede’
When students doubt their ability to succeed or are unsure about their plans for after high school, Raphael “Tito” Marzo has a simple but powerful message for them: “Sí se puede” — or “Yes you can.”
This is the same message Marzo, who will graduate in December with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Missouri S&T, heard countless times four years ago when he attended the Sí Se Puede program coordinated by the university’s student chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE).
Missouri S&T researchers set to work in lunar gravity for NASA project
A team of researchers from Missouri S&T examining how to enrich materials needed for construction on the Moon will soon experience what gravity is like on Earth’s closest celestial companion while testing their technology.
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S&T manufacturing expert named Curators’ Distinguished Professor
Dr. Ming C. Leu, a longtime faculty member at Missouri S&T, has been named a Curators’ Distinguished Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.
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S&T welcomes new faculty
Missouri S&T welcomed approximately 40 new faculty members this year. They bring a wide range of expertise that includes topics such as algorithmic fairness, analyzing complex data, earthquake seismology, extraction of metals, infrastructure, machine learning, neuroimaging and user interface and user experience (UI/UX).
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Missouri S&T professor’s micro research project receives major Air Force grant
Dr. Zhi Liang from Missouri S&T is researching something so small that it can’t be seen by the naked eye, but its implications could be so large that the Air Force Office of Scientific Research recently awarded him a three-year, $600,000 grant.
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S&T researcher awarded grant to study turbulence at hypersonic speeds
A researcher from Missouri S&T has been awarded $200,000 from the National Science Foundation to study how turbulence behaves at high speeds and how it could be used to make hypersonic vehicles more effective.
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