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. 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). Human-Powered Vehicle Team In […]
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.
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.
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