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.
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?
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