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Ashton Wooster

June 26, 2026

Mizzou Engineering senior receives leadership award

Ashton Wooster’s Remington R. Williams Award, the UM System’s highest student leadership award, celebrates his commitment to service, leadership and academic excellence.

Lafferre Hall

June 25, 2026

Engineering the realities of the future

Five new engineering degree programs will prepare students for the next generation of innovation in aerospace, artificial intelligence, construction management and materials science.

Taesic Kim, Praveen Rao, Peifen Zhu, Brendan Alvey and Syed Kamrul Islam

June 23, 2026

Innovative instruction offers students the best of both worlds

Engineering faculty are integrating AI into the classroom while preserving the fundamentals that make Mizzou graduates so effective in the workplace and laboratory.

Sharan Srinivas and Arghadeep Mitra

June 18, 2026

Optimizing warehouse execution through human-robot collaboration

Engineering researchers address unpredictable environments with a system designed to coordinate human workers, autonomous mobile robots and operational workflows.

Yue Jin

June 16, 2026

Mechanical engineering researcher receives NSF CAREER award

Yue Jin will study the physics that underpin the safety and efficiency of next-generation power plants, data centers and high-power electronics.

Highway flyover under construction

June 11, 2026

Building an on-ramp for Missouri’s construction workforce

A Department of Education funded pilot will offer 300 Missourians no-cost training to help them access high skill, high demand and high wage construction careers.

Ashlyn Ohlms, Nique Fajors and Diego Ochoa

June 9, 2026

‘Instead of waiting for opportunities, take the initiative’

Mechanical engineering undergrads Diego Ochoa and Ashlyn Ohlms won the Entrepreneurship Alliance competition with a medical device born of insight, ambition and collaboration.

Torq’n Tigers A-Team members

June 5, 2026

Torq’N Tigers dominate international tractor competition

Mizzou took first in performance, durability and 1,100-pound low-hook pull and fifth overall in the ASABE International Quarter Scale Tractor Student Design Competition.

Sharan Srinivas

June 4, 2026

Reimagining delivery from the road to the sky

NSF-funded research shows that coordinated truck-drone systems can reduce delivery costs through smarter routing, speed control and cost-aware operations.

A full house at the AI-Ready Missouri Summit

June 1, 2026

Missouri leaders meet to set the future course of AI

Participants in the AI-Ready Missouri Summit advanced toward a coordinated, statewide strategy to ensure that the benefits of AI reach communities across the entire state.