Research Centers & Programs

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.

The College of Engineering’s National Science Foundation-supported Center for Excellence in Logistics and Distribution (CELDi) achieved its third “Success Story” for its work on a project for CELDi industry member the Boeing Co. The project examines network design for the company’s distribution facilities.

Through the Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) grant from the United States Department of Education five doctoral students are receiving teaching instruction, funding for conferences and professional networking opportunities..

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.

Soil science is life science. And the geotechnical engineers and soil scientists in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering [...]

Many university undergraduate students don’t have the opportunity to participate in specialized research opportunities. Thanks to a National Science Foundation [...]

Just a few feet below the surface of the Earth — seasonally baked dry in summer’s heat and frozen solid [...]

Toothpicks and gumdrops may not be the materials most civil engineers use when building bridge supports, but for elementary school-aged [...]

Lean Six Sigma is a quantitative approach to improving a process. It is applicable to any process for which there [...]

Years of war have devastated Iraq’s system of higher education and isolated university faculty and administrators from the international academic [...]

With a bass voice that precedes him, Chao Fang laughs as he talks about “singing confidently.” At 6’2”, the MU [...]

Proprietors of any household budget would rejoice in the discovery of a way to save a few dollars. However, when [...]

The University of Missouri College of Engineering will be hustling and bustling with activity before and after spring break when [...]

After placing second in the regional competition this past May, Mizzou Engineering’s ChemE Car Team took its backpack-sized car, many [...]

The University of Missouri was selected by the International Research and Exchanges Board to participate in the Iraq University Linkage [...]

High school students from around the U.S. visited for High School Weekend. Students who participated in the 2-day event met [...]

The University of Missouri College of Engineering has embraced a national program aimed at igniting the imagination and innovative aptitude [...]

While the chance to study abroad is a dream for many students, having the time to dedicate to a program [...]

A new study abroad program offers engineering students at the University of Missouri a chance to travel to a variety [...]

The following are excerpts from student logs kept during the London/Manchester/Paris trip, May 16-27. Students were required to keep journals [...]

As a young man, Jim Monsees planned to eventually become a doctor, but his older cousin’s stories about the Army [...]

A diverse group from across campus came together this semester to sponsor an undergraduate research project looking into stormwater best [...]

With an increasingly globalized economy, many of today’s engineering students will eventually find themselves working in far corners of the [...]

Every protein’s unique three-dimensional structure dictates its function, yet only a fraction of the hundreds of millions of protein structures [...]

As organisms go, the microbes that are the heroes of this healthy wetland tale are among the toughest and tiniest. [...]

Biological engineering senior Bryant Harris’ future fell into place when he learned he had been awarded a $10,000 research scholarship [...]

Five years ago University of Missouri engineering faculty submitted a proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) with the goal [...]

Story by: Sarah Scully Kathleen Trauth, an associate professor in the civil and environmental engineering at the University of Missouri, [...]