Tag: mechanical and aerospace engineering

S&T manufacturing expert named Curators’ Distinguished Professor

Posted by on September 23, 2024

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

Posted by on August 16, 2024

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 

Posted by on July 25, 2024

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 

Posted by on July 11, 2024

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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S&T alumnus is laser-focused on supporting mechanical and aerospace engineering students

Posted by on May 6, 2024

When Jacopo Frigerio was inducted into the Missouri S&T Academy of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineers in October 2023, he says one of his goals was to find new ways to positively impact as many students as possible in his home department. 

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Missouri S&T students exhibit research to state legislators

Posted by on April 10, 2024

Undergraduate students from Missouri University of Science and Technology traveled to Jefferson City, Missouri, on April 4 to participate in the annual Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol.

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Missouri S&T alumni shoot for the moon

Posted by on March 28, 2024

In the 1960s, Donald Beinart, a Missouri S&T alumnus, helped create flight simulation systems for NASA’s Project Gemini, which was a precursor to the Apollo program’s manned lunar landings. Almost six decades later, his grandson, Matt Klosterman, who is also a Missouri S&T alumnus, played a role in the country’s first lunar landing since the Apollo program came to an end.

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35 faculty honored for outstanding teaching, service, experiential learning

Posted by on December 11, 2023

Missouri S&T celebrated faculty excellence at an awards banquet Dec. 6 on campus. Honorees include:

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Missouri S&T faculty collaborate to teach value-driven engineering design

Posted by on November 29, 2023

Two components critical to innovation that are often taught and practiced separately were recently integrated in an introductory engineering design course that’s required for all first-year engineering and computer science students at Missouri S&T. The third week of the course was taught by economics faculty, who introduced value-driven engineering design and economic integration.

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87 researchers affiliated with Missouri S&T among top 2% cited scientists in their fields for career or single-year impact

Posted by on November 3, 2023

A total of 58 current and former faculty of Missouri S&T are among the top researchers in their field as measured by their career research records, and 72 current or former Missouri S&T researchers were among the best in their fields in 2022, according to a recent analysis of standardized citation indicators of the Elsevier Data Repository published by Stanford University.

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