Tag: mechanical engineering

S&T manufacturing engineering expert named Curators’ Distinguished Professor 

Posted by on September 16, 2025

Dr. Frank Liou, the Michael and Joyce Bytnar Product Innovation and Creativity Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri S&T, has been named a Curators’ Distinguished Professor. 

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S&T welcomes new faculty 

Posted by on August 25, 2025

Missouri S&T welcomed over 30 faculty members this year. They bring a wide range of expertise that includes applications for artificial intelligence (AI) in health care, biomedical engineering, concrete sustainability, nuclear reactor safety and semiconductor design. The new faculty are: 

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Environmentally minded Ph.D. student developing long-last batteries that bring more power to smaller spaces  

Posted by on March 12, 2025

When Gracie Boyer was a child, one of the many questions she asked her father, a diesel mechanic, was how their refrigerator worked. After he explained, she had several follow-up questions, including: How would it function if the external temperature was dramatically higher due to the world being on fire? Could an appliance maintain a consistent temperature internally when subjected to extreme fluctuations externally?

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Robotics, lawnmowing and cutting-edge research 

Posted by on August 19, 2024

When Dr. George Holmes Jr. says his education at Missouri S&T helped set him on a path to develop cutting-edge technology for his own company, he means it literally. 

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Hurry up and innovate: S&T event challenges students to improve energy storage

Posted by on June 12, 2024

Noah Johnson, a rising sophomore in mechanical engineering from Washington, Illinois, won first place in S&T’s first Grand Micro Challenge in late April. The challenge gave students just a few hours on a Sunday afternoon to propose a way of storing the energy generated by sun and wind without relying on lithium-ion batteries.

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Freddy Ray Dugard: From S&T’s football field to Ford’s front office

Posted by on March 13, 2024

When Freddy Ray Dugard was a senior in 2009 at St. Francis Preparatory School in Queens, New York, he says he wouldn’t have been able to point out Missouri on a map. 
 
Fast-forward about 15 years, and Dugard now says that state — and more specifically Missouri S&T — has helped shape his career and set him on a path for success.  

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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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Charting new waters

Posted by on November 7, 2023

Luke Mirly and Brennen David may both currently be mechanical engineering students at Missouri S&T, but they are already making a difference in the boat motor industry – and may eventually have multiple patents to prove it. 

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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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S&T welcomes new faculty

Posted by on October 2, 2023

Missouri S&T welcomed more than 30 new faculty members this year. They bring a wide range of expertise that includes artificial intelligence, astrodynamics, energy economics, energy storage, flood prediction, military history, quantum physics and wearable wireless sensors. The new faculty are:

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