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Burns and McDonnell internship - summer 2021 hands-on engineering experiences

Hands-on engineering experience

Learn how several Mizzou Engineering students are getting hands-on experiences as interns at Burns & McDonnell this summer.
Spot with President Choi and students

Spot, meet President Choi

What do you get when the University of Missouri President, five undergraduate engineering students and three robot dogs meet in Jesse Hall? A little laughter, some robotic dance moves and an encounter junior Trevontae’ Haughton won’t soon forget.
Faculty participate in a creativity activity.

Faculty cultivate creativity at NSF-funded academy

Biomedical, biological and chemical engineering faculty aim to incorporate creativity into the classroom following NSF-funded academy.
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3D printing lab to provide new opportunities for students, faculty

Mizzou Engineering is ramping up efforts to train students to use 3D printing and encourage faculty to find new ways to apply the technology.
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Unlocking the mysteries of the brain

Researchers in the Neural Engineering Lab at Mizzou Engineering are collaborating with neuroscientists to develop computational models aimed to boost our understanding of how the human brain works — a massive feat considering there are roughly 86 billion neurons in each of our heads.
Student Riley Jackson sits in front of several computer screens.

Student leader pursues program management through Apple internship

If her experience holding offices for Mizzou organizations is not proof enough that Riley Jackson is a born leader, her internship with Apple is a true testament to her leadership potential.
A member of Army Ants shows where a computer chip is place inside a compression sock.

Army Ants robotics team wins top design in global competition

The Army Ants, Columbia’s FIRST® Robotics Competition team, took home the 2021 Global Innovation Design Award in the FIRST Robotics Competition.
Student works at a computer

Beyond counting: computer science partnership helps speed up plant science experiments

As part of the Bioinformatics in Plant Sciences (BIPS) program, undergraduate and graduate students in plant sciences and computer science have come together to create the first phenotype image analysis system for monocot plant leaf veins called, GrasVIQ.
Arun Zachariah at his internship with Arm.

Mizzou Engineer solving complex problems during internship at Arm

A Mizzou Engineering student is conducting an internship this summer at Arm, a leading semiconductor and software design company. Specifically, Arun George Zachariah is designing frameworks to optimize the complex workloads involved in infrastructure research using multi-core Arm processors.
Portrait: Yangyang Chen

MAE alumnus to be professor at Hong Kong university

Yangyang Chen, a research assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, will begin his faculty career at a world-renowned institution. He is going to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), rated the 56th best university in the world in 2021, according to Times Higher…