Nov. 15, 2022
150 Years of Mizzou Engineering: 2000-2020
Our series exploring the history of Mizzou Engineering continues this month in the year 2000. As a new century dawned, the College experienced tremendous growth and expansion. Dean Jim Thompson worked to increase enrollment, creating a recruiting office and implementing statewide programs that promoted engineering opportunities to high school students and parents. Jim Thompson Thompson also focused on international collaborations, instituting a 2+2 Coordinated Undergraduate Degree Program that allowed international students to study two years at their home institutions before transferring to Mizzou to complete their degrees. And the College entered into memorandums of understanding with university partners around the…
Oct. 7, 2022
150 Years of Mizzou Engineering: 1990-1999
The history of Mizzou Engineering approaches the turn of the century with a new building, a new dean and new academic departments.
Sep. 12, 2022
Mizzou Engineering announces new executive director of advancement
Katherine Goliver Katherine Goliver, a seasoned leader in philanthropy and development, will join Mizzou Engineering as the executive director of advancement on Nov. 1. In this role, she will work with alumni, friends and colleagues to build upon the College’s 150-year legacy of engineering excellence. “I am excited about the opportunity to support Mizzou Engineering’s strategic priorities and help the College move into the next era of innovation in education and research,” Goliver said. “I look forward to getting to know the Mizzou Engineering community, including the amazing network of Engineering alumni across the globe.” Goliver comes to Mizzou from…
Sep. 12, 2022
150 Years of Mizzou Engineering: 1980-1989
Missouri Shamrock image of Jonathan Coker adjusting the satellite dish for an IEEE event in 1984. It was the first national video teleconference to be downloaded on campus. Our look back at Mizzou Engineering through the decades continues in 1980. After more than a decade of making a case for funding, Dean William Kimel has successfully raised the nearly $2 million needed for a new civil engineering wing. The project, completed in 1982, expanded space for labs, classrooms and offices and added a new lounge for students. In the early 80s, the College made more investments in technology, as well,…
Aug. 10, 2022
150 Years of Mizzou Engineering: 1968-1979
Students work in a graphics engineering class in the 1970s. Our series exploring the history of Mizzou Engineering continues in the year 1968, when William Kimel begins what would become a 17-year tenure as Dean of the College. Kimel became known for his collaborative style and had a keen interest in developing bioengineering studies in partnership with the School of Medicine. Bioengineering courses and research activities would be primarily under electrical engineering in the 1970s until the subject became a formal program in 1980. William Kimel Perhaps the biggest impact on the future of Mizzou Engineering was Kimel’s foresight. He…
July 13, 2022
150 Years of Mizzou Engineering: 1946-1967
Huber O. Croft served as Dean for 13 years, during which time he oversaw construction, the creation of the Missouri Honor Awards and suggested a nuclear research reactor be built on campus. Our look back at Mizzou Engineering’s history continues this month during the 1946-47 school year. When we left off, Dean Harry Curtis was juggling an unusually large student body and a shortage of faculty and supplies. Enrollment exceeded 1,200 in the fall of that year, forcing the College to hold courses in the early morning hours into the evening. In 1948, enrollment peaked at 1,500 students, many of…
June 10, 2022
150 Years of Mizzou Engineering: 1936-1945
Our series on the history of the College picks up in the mid-1930s.
May 11, 2022
150 Years of Mizzou Engineering: 1917-1935
Mizzou Engineering — like the rest of the country — was feeling the impact of world war in 1917
April 14, 2022
Daughter Day inspires young women to learn more about engineering
Women belong in engineering. That was one take-away from Mizzou Engineering Daughter Day, an event that invites Missouri middle and high school students to spend the day as a Mizzou Engineer.
April 4, 2022
150 Years of Mizzou Engineering: 1906 – 1916
As the nation was progressing at the turn of the century — with both rural Americans and millions of immigrants flocking to sprawling urban areas seeking opportunities — so, too, was the College of Engineering finding its identity in the early 1900s.