Tag: mechanical engineering

Education bill provides funding to complete UMR project

Posted by on May 8, 2007

Missouri lawmakers’ passage of legislation to fund capital improvement projects for higher education across the state means a long-delayed construction project on the University of Missouri-Rolla campus can proceed on schedule. 

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UMR team prepares Indy-style car for competition

Posted by on May 9, 2006

A team of University of Missouri-Rolla students has designed and manufactured a sleek silver and blue vehicle that can outperform most sports cars – but UMR’s 2006 Formula Car isn’t street legal.         

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U.S. News again ranks UMR among top graduate engineering programs

Posted by on March 31, 2006

The University of Missouri-Rolla is again one of the nation’s top graduate engineering schools, according to U.S. News and World Report’s latest rankings of graduate schools. The rankings also list five UMR programs as among the best in the country.

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ME Annex is falling down

Posted by on March 2, 2006

Constructed a year before the Wright Brothers made their historic flight, the UMR Mechanical Engineering Annex is being razed to make way for the first phase of a $27.6 million expansion project and you can watch its progress.

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UMR researcher sets sights on improving vision

Posted by on November 15, 2005

A University of Missouri-Rolla researcher has teamed up with a St. Louis opthamologist to help those who suffer from cataracts by studying the elasticity of lenses.

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UMR to break ground on Toomey Hall

Posted by on September 15, 2005

The University of Missouri-Rolla will break ground on a $24 million renovation and expansion project during a ceremony from 2:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30., near the current site of the Mechanical Engineering Building on campus.

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UMR student finds personal connection to research

Posted by on July 27, 2005

Sometimes you pick your research. Sometimes your research picks you.

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UMR students ready to depart for Houston flight

Posted by on July 13, 2005

As NASA prepares the Discovery shuttle for blast-off, a group of University of Missouri-Rolla students are prepping themselves for their own flight mission set for July 21-30 in Houston. The eight-member team is one of 20 NASA has selected from more than 100 proposals to conduct reduced-gravity experiments this summer aboard the agency’s famous “Weightless […]

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UMR engineering students to help Guatemalans rebuild homes

Posted by on June 23, 2005

When a major earthquake jolted Central America in January 2001, it left many Guatemalans wondering how they would rebuild their destroyed adobe homes. More than four years later, residents of Jerez are finding their answer in the hands of seven engineering students from the University of Missouri-Rolla.

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Alumnus John Toomey donates $5 million for ME/AE Complex project

Posted by on July 23, 2004

Plans to renovate and expand the University of Missouri-Rolla’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Complex moved a big step closer to reality on Friday, July 23, with the university’s announcement of a $5 million gift for the project from John and Mary Toomey of Alexandria, Va., and their family. John Toomey is a 1949 UMR graduate […]

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