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Automated kiosk speeds travel security
Your wait time at the airport could drop significantly thanks to a new automated security kiosk developed by Nathan Twyman, assistant professor of business and information technology.
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By studying a combination of physical actions, social behavior analysis and data analytics, Missouri S&T researchers hope to better understand how people make decisions when interacting with technology in “smart” environments.
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Materials with memory
You can bend, fold or twist this material, and it will bounce back to its original shape. Polyurethane aerogels developed at Missouri S&T have a rubber-like elasticity that allows them to “remember” their shapes.
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Miner Move-In
The Miner Alumni Association rolled out the red carpet at Hasselmann Alumni House on Aug. 12 for more than 1,000 freshmen, who kicked off Miner Move-In Day with a warm welcome from alumni and staff. “We were thrilled to see the alumni house filled with our newest Miners and their families,” says Darlene Ramsay, MetE’84, […]
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One step at a time
Yun Seong Song, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri S&T, wants to make walking up and down stairs easier, so he created a device that recycles the energy we use to climb and descend.
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What the Hex?
William Heimsoth, ME’11, and Aaron Attebery, ME’10, MS ME’12, designed a hexagonal beer pong cup they call the Hexcup. The cup’s honeycomb-inspired design allows for tighter “racks,” which means less space between cups. Hexcups are also top-rack dishwasher safe and have a creased coaster design that breaks the surface tension of the cup to prevent […]
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Simulating disaster
For the past 35 years, professional mine rescue teams from across the country have descended on Missouri S&T’s Experimental Mine for a competition that is both friendly and a matter of life and death.
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STEM-ed reboot
This fall, elementary, middle and high school students from around the country learned more about engineering and science fields because their teachers — nearly 600 of them — came to S&T for Project Lead The Way training. Courses were held throughout the summer to teach K–12 educators how to better teach engineering, computer science and […]
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The game of history
S&T military historian John C. McManus says he’s noticed that many students who are interested in military history were first exposed to the subject through video games.
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Wlezien named CEC dean
Richard W. Wlezien, former Vance and Arlene Coffman Endowed Department Chair in Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University and a former researcher and program director at NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), became vice provost and dean of the College of Engineering and Computing on Aug. 1.
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