Missouri S&T’s PetroBowl team has punched its ticket to compete at the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) PetroBowl Championship event in Houston during the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in October.
Read More »If a home in the United States has rooftop solar panels, there’s a strong likelihood that Dr. Patrick Chapman, a Missouri S&T alumnus, played a role in developing its power inverters. In recognition of his contributions, he was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Read More »It’s not quite 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, March 16, and a large group of Missouri S&T students has congregated at a pavilion in Rolla’s Schuman Park, a short distance from the university’s campus.
Just a couple days ago, a sense of merriment filled the air as many of the same students took part in games and a carnival in this same location as part of S&T’s St. Pat’s celebrations. But today, the feeling is a mix of solemness and determination, as everyone has come together to help clean up their community in the aftermath of what appears to be two different tornadoes that went through Rolla.
Read More »After completing his Ph.D. in industrial chemistry in Nigeria, his home country, Dr. Ugochukwu Ewuzie worked as a laboratory scientist for a global energy company. Spending his days working on synthetic fuels and waste created by various refining processes, Ewuzie began to wonder not just how to reuse those waste byproducts but how to reuse them in a way that’s good for the environment. That’s where the road to Missouri S&T and his second Ph.D., this one in chemical engineering, began to pave itself in concrete—literally.
Read More »Conleigh Hardin, a senior in civil engineering from Austin, Texas, attended a large high school but was in a program with fewer than 200 students. She liked the scaled down, personal feeling of it, and when it was time to decide on a college, she chose Missouri S&T for its size relative to the huge engineering colleges closer to home.
Read More »Missouri S&T’s Linda and Bipin Doshi Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering will soon have a new leader, with Dr. Ryan Gilbert set to start in the Doshi Endowed Chair role effective Aug. 1.
Read More »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?
Read More »A researcher at Missouri S&T has developed a robotic system to make bridge inspections faster, more comprehensive and safer. Dr. Genda Chen’s invention, called the Bridge Inspection Robot Deployment System, or BIRDS, has been selected for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2025 Charles Pankow Award for Innovation.
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