Tag: mining engineering
Old Timers Club recognizes recent mining engineering grad
The Old Timers Club, a group of leaders in the mining industry, has awarded a 2006 Old Timers Award to a recent graduate of the University of Missouri-Rolla.
Read More »Worldwide shortage of mining and nuclear engineers puts UMR grads in ‘catbird’s seat’
A worldwide shortage of mining and nuclear engineers is making some students at the University of Missouri-Rolla a hot commodity.
Read More »UMR’s Experimental Mine is haunted again this Halloween
The Experimental Mine at the University of Missouri-Rolla is haunted again this year and will be open to the public Friday and Saturday, Oct. 21-22, as well as on Oct. 28-29 and Oct. 31. On the first four nights, the mine will be open from 6 p.m. until midnight. The hours for Halloween night, on […]
Read More »UMR to host underground mine rescue event
Mine rescues are serious business, and mining industry professionals make sure they are prepared for disasters. But so do mining engineering students at the University of Missouri-Rolla.
Read More »Miner Toni Donovan to the rescue
Toni Donovan, a junior in mining engineering from Homewood, Ill., has to watch her step, just in case she starts a fire, kills a trapped miner or touches electricity.
Read More »High school students come to UMR to blow up summer camp stereotype
Stereotypical summer camps revolve around swimming and singing “Kumbaya.” At the University of Missouri-Rolla this summer, eighteen high school students are set to blow up that stereotype.
Read More »UMR lights up the skies with pyrotechnics course
In the nation’s only pyrotechnics course offered for college credit, University of Missouri-Rolla students are lighting up the skies with fireworks displays at football games and other public events throughout Missouri.
Read More »UMR leads national mine safety effort with $4.02 million federal grant
UMR will help lead a national effort to improve mine health and safety through a $4.02 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
Read More »Student will be first master’s graduate from UMR’s online mining engineering program
While many college students were lounging on the beaches of Cancun during Spring Break, Julie Gallaway, assistant professor of economics and finance at the University of Missouri-Rolla, traveled to another part of Mexico, studying how small loans help people in a poverty-stricken area.
Read More »Washing away land mines
UMR researchers hope to wash away the problem of land mines by developing technology that harnesses — and focuses — the power of water, as a child’s plastic water pistol does.
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