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Brooke Becker, mechanical engineering major, ran into Enrique Chavez Jr., her boss from a previous internship, while at the Spring 2023 Mizzou Engineering Career Fair

Students explore future internships, jobs at Engineering Career Fair

Mechanical Engineering student Brooke Becker already has an internship for the summer, but she was eager to take an active role in the Spring 2023 Engineering Career Fair. “I’m looking forward to talking to as many companies as I can,” Becker said prior to the event on March 2. “I also signed up to be a fair volunteer, and I’m happy to be able to help out and give back to other students, especially after attending every other fair during my college experience and benefitting from it.”

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IISE conference at Mizzou showcases work of industrial engineering students

Industrial engineering students from around the region had the opportunity to showcase projects, network with peers and tour campus and local manufacturing plants at the 2023 Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) student conference hosted at Mizzou.

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Team earns ‘Best Paper Award’ for developing AI model to track waterfowl

An interdisciplinary Mizzou team received a “Best Paper Award” after developing system that can automatically identify individual birds in images of waterfowl flocks.

Jacob Smith, Chetan Vanteddu and Kevin Zemon are finalists in the Entrepreneur Quest Competition

Three Mizzou Engineering students are finalists in campus entrepreneurship competition

Three Mizzou Engineers have made it into the final round of the Entrepreneur Quest (EQ) Competition and are getting ready to compete for up to $15,000 from a prize pool to turn their ideas into viable businesses.

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Explore internships, employment opportunities at 2023 Spring Career Fair

Students looking for a summer internship or employment after graduation — or even those who simply want to explore career options — should make plans to attend Mizzou Engineering’s 2023 Spring Career Fair. The fair will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, March 2, at MizzouRec.

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Mizzou Engineering students, alumnus compete at MIT Reality Hack

Four Mizzou Engineers participated in MIT’s Reality Hack last month, an international hackathon focused on extended reality (XR, an umbrella term for virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality), developing novel ways to implement emerging technologies.

Lane Atchison and Kate Sherard, E-Week 2023 co-chairs

E-Week co-chairs talk events, memories and what’s new for 2023

E-Week is organized by St. Pat’s Board, which is chaired this year by Lane Atchison and Kate Sherard. We asked them to tell us a little about themselves and what the College can expect during 2023 E-Week: Pat to the Future.

Mizzou's chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers welcomed new students at the BBQ and during Welcome Week with activities throughout Lafferre Hall.

Explore academic, professional opportunities with Mizzou NSBE

Interested in joining a community to support your academic and professional career both during and after college? Mizzou’s chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) is working to create a NSBE family, one member at a time.

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Mizzou Engineering STEM Scholars Program shows promising results

A scholarship program that began for civil and environmental engineering students in 2021 has proven so successful, it’s being expanded to other engineering majors. And eventually, the coordinator, Professor Vellore Gopalaratnam, would like a see a similar support system for students studying other STEM programs across Mizzou.

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Fall 2022 Dean’s List now available

Mizzou Engineering’s Fall 2022 Dean’s List is now available. During the fall 2022 semester, more than 1,600 undergraduate engineering students earned this academic distinction. Students who achieve between a 3.5 and 4.0 grade point average are placed on the Dean’s High Honor List. Those achieving a 3.0 to 3.49 GPA are on the Dean’s Honor…