Issues
Student Success Center up and running
Chancellor Cheryl B. Schrader and Breck Washam, ME’90, vice president of Burns & McDonnell and an outgoing member of the Miner Alumni Association board of directors, were on hand April 2 to formally dedicate the Burns & McDonnell Student Success Center, a new outreach to S&T students. Located in Room 198 Toomey Hall at the center […]
Read More »Is S&T haunted?
University campuses and college towns are notorious settings for ghost stories. Is Rolla one of them? Is Missouri S&T haunted? We asked about your spooky Rolla experiences. Here’s what you told us.
Read More »Letter from the editor
Dear Fellow Alumni: This issue of Missouri S&T Magazine is about opportunity and taking a chance. It is about taking what you have and turning it into something greater. In this case, the catalyst is Missouri S&T.
Read More »STAT hosts opening week barbecue
Students Today, Alumni Tomorrow (STAT) hosted a free barbecue during the group’s first meeting of the year on Aug. 28. Students enjoyed food hot off the grill and learned about STAT, the alumni student organization.
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Golden Miners reunite
The Miner Alumni Association hosted 48 members of the Class of 1963 and their guests at the 2013 Golden Alumni Reunion May 20–21. In addition to getting reacquainted with each other, alumni and guests toured campus and the Kummer Student Design Center, visited their departments and learned about life on campus today through a presentation […]
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Miner Made
Miners are makers. Maybe not always in the traditional sense, but the theme of making is a deeply rooted part of who they are.
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Express engineer
“I thrive under pressure,” says Patrick Dippel, EMgt’04. “I was looking for a company that was aggressive in improving itself, and I found it. I have never seen such strong passion and alignment across all segments of a business and through the efforts of every individual employee.”
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Making tall grass short
Sam Patterson is one of the voices of John Deere. A design engineer in John Deere’s rotary mower group, Patterson, ME’06, is passionate about his work — making lawn mowing easy — and it shows in the company’s latest “How We Run John Deere” video, which features Patterson.
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Outside-the-box hair care
Anita Heinzke, ChE’10, thinks outside the shampoo bottle. That creative thinking earned Heinzke, a project engineer in L’Oreal’s Florence, Ky., hair care facility, a $5,000 Beauty Shakers award from the company. Her suggestion — to use corn plastic in L’Oreal shampoo packaging — took third place out of more than 900 submissions in the company’s […]
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Right at home with P&G
According to researchers at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most American workers last four years with an employer. Katie Dambach, ME’06, defies that statistic. “I have never interviewed with another company,” Dambach says of her experience with Procter & Gamble. “I got the first internship and never looked back.”
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