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Read More »Baja Team Back in the UMR days, the team built a vehicle that could drive on water. Watch it plunge into Little Prairie Lake and then across it. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjuplwj15MI&w=420&h=315] Advanced Aero Vehicle Group AAVG also designs and builds high-powered rockets. See a practice launch (wait for it, it’s about 30 seconds in). [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu8lZLN3Csg&w=420&h=315] […]
Read More »Human-powered vehicle racer Jerrod Bouchard, a senior in mechanical engineering at UMR, recorded the third-fastest time ever by a college student this week in the World Human Power Speed Challenge at Battle Mountain, Nev. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GohSxFwhL50?list=PL03AD6406198A902D&hl=en_US&w=560&h=315]
Read More »This past summer the University of Missouri-Rolla’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders traveled to two destinations in Bolivia to apply their engineering skills to local problems. The first destination was a small boarding school in the Amazon. There the problem consisted of finding a clean source of water. The second location was in Inca Katurapi, […]
Read More »As NPR reported this summer, "Teens at explosives camp learn how to use dynamite to obliterate watermelons and blast rocks from the depths of mine shafts. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlGuQIiUm9Q&w=560&h=315]
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