Tag: mining engineering
From wide receiver to mining leader
Braden Lusk first came to Rolla in 1996 as a walk-on wide receiver from central Kansas who excelled at math and science in high school but admittedly “had no idea what an engineer was.”
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S&T Haunted Mine to open Friday, Oct. 21
Mining engineering students at Missouri University of Science and Technology are “haunting” the school’s Experimental Mine Facility for Halloween this year.
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Public-private partnership helps fund new mine building at Missouri S&T
Bill Kennedy, president and CEO of Jack Kennedy Metal Products and Building Inc., recently gave the lead gift to support construction of the new Kennedy Experimental Mine Building at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
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Lighting a fire
Five years into volunteering for the Rolla Rural Fire District (RRFD), Missouri S&T student Chris Franklin thought of one more way he could give back to the department. Franklin enrolled in Sarah Stanley’s marketing for nonprofits four-week summer course. The majority of class time was to be spent developing marketing materials for local nonprofit Phelps […]
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Greening mines
For more than 150 years, The Doe Run Co. has tapped the fertile mineral resources of southeast Missouri to mine the lead, copper and zinc that remain staples of products ranging from car batteries to X-ray equipment and military satellites.
Read More »Braden T. Lusk named chair of mining and nuclear engineering
Dr. Braden T. Lusk, professor of mining engineering at the University of Kentucky and a two-time graduate of Missouri University of Science and Technology, has been named chair of the mining and nuclear engineering department at Missouri S&T effective Aug. 15.
Read More »See fireworks two Fridays in June at Missouri S&T
Watch the skies above Missouri S&T in June for two student-produced fireworks displays.
Read More »Doe Run Co. donates mining equipment to Missouri S&T
The Doe Run Co. (Doe Run) recently donated $37,724 in technical equipment to the mining engineering department at Missouri University of Science and Technology to aid in training the next generation of mining engineers.
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Experimental mine project receives state matching funds
Missouri University of Science and Technology will receive $1.2 million in state capital appropriations for a new research and teaching building at its Experimental Mine – regularly listed as one of Popular Science magazine’s most “awesome labs” and home to the university’s popular summer Explosives Camp for high school juniors and seniors.
Read More »Pioneering African American Dr. Tamiko M. Youngblood dies
As a student at Missouri University of Science and Technology, Dr. Tamiko M. Youngblood dreamed of breaking down barriers for African Americans.
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