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Tom Akers receives Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
Col. Tom Akers, instructor of mathematics and statistics at the University of Missouri-Rolla, is the recipient of a 2004 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Read More »UMR-developed technique may guide future space launches
A new flight-control method created by UMR researchers to launch missiles and aircraft may one day send unmanned space vehicles on voyages to the moon, Mars or beyond.
Read More »Students create tethered satellite to research distributed systems
Call it a match made for the heavens: MR SAT and MRS SAT, a pair of microsatellites created by UMR engineering students, will tie the knot before they launch into space.
Read More »Miners in space
David Harris now knows why they call NASA’s KC-135 aircraft the "vomit comet." The UMR mechanical engineering senior led a team of seven other UMR students and two Rolla Senior High School students on a trip aboard the KC-135 last summer to conduct welding experiments in near-zero gravity. The plane flies in parabolic patterns to […]
Read More »UMR professor working as congressional aide
Dr. Steve E. Watkins, an associate professor of electrical engineering at UMR, is spending a year in Washington, D.C., working for U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., as one of two IEEE-USA Congressional Fellows for 2004.
Read More »Professor studies NASA insulation materials
A UMR researcher who uses a relatively new technique to detect subtle defects in materials is now using that method to study foam samples similar to the insulation used on NASA’s space shuttles.
Read More »Stronger tiles, safer shuttles
In the wake of the Feb. 1 space shuttle Columbia tragedy, the national media spotlight turned to a couple of young faculty members in UMR’s ceramic engineering department. Greg Hilmas and Bill Fahrenholtz have just started work on a three-year, $300,000 project for the Air Force to develop ultra-high-temperature ceramic tiles — tiles that also […]
Read More »Students plan a spin on NASA’s "vomit comet"
In hopes of finding ways to improve construction in space, eight University of Missouri-Rolla students will conduct reduced-gravity experiments on welding properties April 23 through May 3 aboard NASA’s KC-135 aircraft, the "vomit comet" that doubled as a command module for Tom Hanks and other cast members during the filming of the movie Apollo 13.
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