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After 13 years of working as an associate teaching professor in the MU College of Engineering’s Computer Science Department, Markita Price is retiring. Computer science department chair Professor Dong Xu presented Price with a plaque commemorating her dedication and service to the department.

A grant from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is being used to fund research conducted by Matthew Bernards, assistant professor of chemical engineering and nuclear engineering, with Pinhero serving as a mentor.

At the “Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievements Forum” held April 23, chemical engineering Assistant Professor Matthew Bernards won the Office of Undergraduate Research’s 2013 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, and engineering students took top honors for their research posters.

Clarence Mabin’s happy end-of-career story is not unlike that of many successful MU engineering alumni, but as an early African-American student in engineering and the first black graduate in civil engineering, the story of his path to success isn’t quite as typical.

Partnering with Columbia Public School and State Farm Insurance, the University of Missouri hosted the “Frontiers in Design” competition, which asked area high school students to develop a solution and a marketing plan to a surgical deficiency.

Department leaders in chemical engineering are working with alumni to launch a Chemical Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni. With support from the department’s Industry Advisory Board, the academy will further establish ways for alumni to be a part of the department.

Marjorie Skubic, an MU professor with joint appointments in electrical and computer engineering and computer science, received two honors in April from the MU Sinclair School of Nursing and her Alma mater, Texas A&M University.

During her visit to MU, a presenter for the Chancellor’s Distinguished Visitors Series last September, Patricia Brennan, spent some time with the College of Engineering’s industrial and manufacturing systems engineering faculty members discussing the natural pairing of their professional field with nursing.

After earning his master’s and business degrees at a university abroad, Ecuadorian native Jorge Abad returned to his South American alma mater to teach, rising through the ranks and eventually becoming an associate dean. A student once more, he’s working on his doctoral degree through MU’s IMSE program.

Na Deng had a hunch that MU’s College of Engineering would be a good place to study, and Columbia would be a nice place to live. Now that she’s graduated, she’s found that her hard work has paid off with a job offer from American Airlines.

Each year the Mizzou Alumni Association Student Board reviews applications from top university seniors — weighing academic achievement, leadership and service to Mizzou and the community — to select the Mizzou ’39.

James S. Rollins, “father” of the University of Missouri, was instrumental in the land grant university’s placement in Columbia. He also created the first endowed scholarship in 1888, which each year is still awarded to six undergraduates, including a civil engineering major.

Five faculty members from the University of Technology-Baghdad visited MU for three weeks in December as part of the college’s participation in the Iraqi University Linkage Program.

Within the MU College of Engineering, 12 areas of collaborative research have been designated as research centers. Faculty members in the Computer Science Department direct three of the college’s centers.

MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society’s (MCBIOS) 2013 conference will be held April 5-6 in Columbia.

A delegation of five faculty members from the University of Technology in Baghdad (UoT) is visiting MU’s College of Engineering [...]

For his graduate work at the State University of New York, Ye Duan explored computer vision, using a camera to [...]

With the introduction of Apple iPhone’s personal assistant, Siri, the technology of speech recognition went mainstream. The ease with which [...]

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Jianlin Cheng, an MU associate professor of computer science, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to design and [...]

Carla Wiedmier, the MU College of Engineering’s new executive director of advancement, has known since her very first job in [...]

Motivations for making charitable gifts are as varied as those making them and oftentimes are very personal in nature. In [...]

In 2010, the MU College of Engineering launched a Recent Alumni Development (RAD) Board. The effort, intended to keep young [...]

Within his successful National Science Foundation CAREER award proposal, Dmitry Korkin, a University of Missouri assistant professor of computer science, [...]

After six years of dedicated preparation, the University of Missouri’s computer science program learned in August it had earned accreditation [...]

When junior mechanical and aerospace engineering student Jonathan Jennings joined the MU College of Engineering’s student chapter of the American [...]

Each semester, University of Missouri electrical and computer engineering instructor Jim Fischer is responsible for both ECE 3110 and ECE [...]

Over the past seven years, University of Missouri Computer Science Professors Dong Xu and Yi Shang have made a name [...]

Speaking at a Washington, D.C. event to unveil the White House’s US Ignite initiative, National Science Foundation Director Subra Suresh [...]

Early in high school, Greg Ringkamp decided that he wanted to be an engineer, and he knew he wanted to [...]