Mizzou Engineer Magazine

Dave Cockrill is an alumnus of the College of Engineering who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering in 1985 and is currently the first plant manager at a plant in the Kansas City area.

Members of the Chemical Engineering Department’s Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) visit the department twice annually for department updates and to determine how they can help the department and its students studying chemical engineering.

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.

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.

In the four years since graduation, Eric Thomas, BS EE ’09, has been promoted twice and moved three times for his career. Immediately after graduation, he began working for Norfolk Southern Railroad in Conway, Pa., and later Sheffield, Ala., and back to Conway.

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.

The Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department inducted four alumni and one retired faculty member to the IMSE Hall of Fame at its annual ceremony in last fall.

Thomaz DeSouza is a 2012 computer science alumnus who discovered getting a job in a high-profile company right after graduation isn’t impossible.

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

Efforts to identify greener, more cost-efficient materials to make the polyurethanes used to create foams and plastics has resulted in [...]

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

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

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 [...]

Expertise of engineering alumnus, former chairman of U.S. nuclear Regulatory Commission, in demand Former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory [...]

According to the World Nuclear Association, approximately 90 percent of nuclear medicine procedures conducted worldwide are diagnostic in nature and [...]

“This research started when I was working as a postdoc at Notre Dame, where we were trying to develop a [...]

Biomass is one obvious answer to the question of how this country will address its needs for renewable, sustainable energy [...]

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

Clinical trials are expected to begin early this summer on a technology that aims to make visits to the dentist [...]

“When I think back, starting here and ending up where I did, I never in my wildest dreams considered I [...]

Biological engineering professor Fu-Hung Hsieh’s research into the development of a soy-based chicken substitute with the flavor and texture of [...]

Alina Zare, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been recognized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers [...]

In March 2012, three College of Engineering alumni were recognized for their professional accomplishments, commitment and ideals with Missouri Honor [...]

Birthday parties can be full of surprises. Besides serving as a happy reaffirmation of 50 successful years, MU’s Industrial and [...]

  For several decades, geologic scientists have used satellite radar imagery and a technique called interferometry to remotely measure deformation [...]

Research project builds on more than two decades of investigation into bridge wear