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A Mizzou Engineering team has won its first outing in a national design competition.

High school students from across the country explored engineering at Mizzou Engineering’s summer camps, which featured a mix of lectures, activities and team design competitions.

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Lex Axelrod, BS EE ’56, retired for the second time in 2006, from the Illinois Institute of Technology where he had been teaching since 1995. Over the course of his long career, he has worked with computer simulation of flight control system components, development of temperature control systems, and also held a variety of management [...]

MU civil engineering students Matthew Wheeler, at left, and Sean Collier practice putting the seismic design team’s bridge together as quickly as possible as they prepare for competition.
Photo by Jeremiah Kasinger

More than 15 major earthquakes occur throughout the world in an average year, federal statistics show.
In a year that has [...]

Chemical engineering students Michael Gordon, left, and Matthias Young insert a 70-pound hydrogen fuel tank into the frame of Mizzou’s first hydrogen fuel car. The car will travel 600 miles on a full tank of hydrogen, team members said.
Photo by Vicki Hodder

The University of Missouri’s alternative energy team [...]

Water quality will be the focus of a new Mizzou student organization now in the works.
Prompted by requests from environmental engineers throughout Missouri, MU’s College of Engineering is laying the foundation for a student chapter of the Water Environment Federation (WEF). Only two other Missouri universities—the Missouri University of Science [...]

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Dale Klein said the NRC aims to recruit engineers familiar with new types of nuclear reactors.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Dale Klein urged students at a regional conference recently held by Mizzou Engineering to tackle the complex technological issues he predicted nuclear engineers soon will face.
The nuclear [...]

Supporting the increasingly popular view that environmentalism is good business, energy conservationists have saved about $55,000 since installing advanced remote sensing technology in a portion of Mizzou Engineering’s Lafferre Hall six months ago.
“Remote sensing and control has progressed dramatically during the last five to 10 years, and is being [...]

James Bryce, Mizzou Engineering senior

Kathy Masterson, Mizzou Engineering graduate student

Two Mizzou civil engineering students have earned berths in prestigious Washington, D.C. programs slated for this spring and summer.
Senior James Bryce will participate this summer in the nine-week Washington Internships for Students of Engineering (WISE) program, ranked among the best 109 internships [...]

E–Week organizers will launch Mizzou Engineering’s annual celebration in a first–time ceremony to turn Jesse Hall’s dome lights green.
Photo courtesy of Matthew Cozad, St. Pat’s Board co–president

Engineers’ Week will invoke tradition with a twist this year as students seek greater campus and community involvement in their annual celebration.
Organizers are again turning MU’s [...]