The Women’s Mining Team earned first place in its category at the 37th Intercollegiate Mining Competition held in March at the Western Australia School of Mines in Kalgoorlie, Australia. The team defended its title as world champions in a competition designed to test skills in old-fashioned mining techniques known as “mucking.” S&T’s co-ed team took […]
Read More »A group of geophysics and petroleum engineering graduate students from Missouri S&T took first place in Schlumberger’s North American Ocean Academic Competition in March. They earned $15,000 for developing a plug-in for Schlumberger’s Ocean Petrel software, which lets oil and gas companies easily incorporate science-based plug-ins into their projects instead of using multiple software solutions. […]
Read More »Missouri S&T is one of 25 U.S. universities selected to participate in Epicenter’s Pathways to Innovation program. Epicenter is funded by the National Science Foundation and directed by Stanford University and VentureWell.
Read More »“Students must develop effective problem-solving, critical-thinking, collaboration and communication skills — tools they need to compete and succeed in the global economy,” Vince M. Bertram told just over 1,200 graduates at two commencement ceremonies in May. Bertram is president and chief executive officer of Project Lead The Way, a nonprofit organization that develops K-12 curricula […]
Read More »Missouri S&T honored the following 10 alumni with professional degrees to recognize career achievement. Francisco M. “Frank” Benavides, CE’70, of St. Louis, founder and executive director of PENTA Engineering Corp. Paul Daniel Booher, CE’80, MS CE’81, of Springfield, Mo., chief operating officer for Enactus Seth Burgett, ME’94, of Glen Carbon, Ill., vice president and general […]
Read More »A pair of microsatellites designed by a team of S&T students took first place in the U.S. Air Force’s University Nanosat-8 Program. Plans call for the S&T projects to be launched into low orbit. The collegiate competition, which spans over two years, challenges student teams to develop and construct a proto-flight satellite while participating in […]
Read More »Every March, S&T students wield shillelaghs to rid the campus of rubber snakes to honor the legend of St. Patrick driving snakes from Ireland centuries ago. This year students, alumni and other visitors to the university’s website could join in on the fun, thanks to an arcade-style video game housed on the university website. Visit […]
Read More »Dan Lin, an assistant professor of computer science, was named the 19th Woman of the Year on April 15. Lin joined the Missouri S&T faculty in 2008. She teaches courses on cloud computing, pervasive computing, database systems, file structure and introduction to database systems. Her research focuses on the fields of database systems and information […]
Read More »Missouri S&T is one of 15 U.S. universities to receive $90,000 to help recruit women and underrepresented minorities to the computer science field through the Building Recruiting and Inclusion for Diversity (BRAID) initiative. Currently 7 percent of Missouri S&T’s undergraduate computer science students are female. The national average is 17 percent.
Read More »Pursuing a successful career while leading a balanced life can be a rewarding experience for new graduates if they stand up for their principles, Harvest Collier said during commencement ceremonies at Missouri S&T on Friday, Dec. 19, and Saturday, Dec. 20.
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