News from Mizzou Engineering

June 27, 2022

Personal health trackers may include smart face mask, other wearables

Zheng Yan, an assistant professor of biomedical, biological and chemical engineering recently published two studies demonstrating different ways to improve wearable bioelectronic devices.

June 24, 2022

Mizzou collaboration leads to national award

The Missouri Center for Transportation Innovation (MCTI) received a High Value Research award for its Pollinator Habitat Project from the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.

June 21, 2022

STEM Cubs branches out

STEM Cubs, MU’s popular science, technology, engineering and mathematics day camp, is back. The program recently expanded to include middle schoolers, and nearly 80 students attended last weekend's sessions.

June 16, 2022

Cracking the code: Engineering team devises improved way to predict cracks

Rogelio Muñeton-Lopez, left, receives congratulations during the Engineering Mechanics Institute conference earlier this month where he was a finalist in the student paper competition for his work on predicting cracks. Cracks can cause serious problems on roads and bridges, as they compromise the strength and soundness of a structure. A Mizzou Engineering team has devised a way to better predict not only where a crack will occur but also the path it could take as it progresses. The work earned Rogelio Muñeton-Lopez, a master’s student in civil engineering, runner-up status at the Engineering Mechanics Institute conference earlier this…

June 15, 2022

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Chair to give plenary talk

Syed “Kamrul” Islam is giving a talk next week, one of many conferences he is participating in this year. The chair of electrical engineering and computer science at Mizzou Engineering is scheduled to give a plenary talk during a workshop in Lugano, Switzerland, next week. Syed “Kamrul” Islam will present work around biomedical sensors for point-of-care health monitoring systems. He is one of four plenary speakers at the fifth annual Quantum & Biomedical Applications Technologies and Sensors workshop set for June 20-21. “There is a lot of exciting work happening around sensors and technologies being used in health…

June 15, 2022

150 Years of Leadership: Michael Melton

Michael Melton, Esquire, is often asked whether he ever uses his bachelor’s degree in engineering. After all, he’s had an extraordinary career as a businessman, having started his own company after working for years as a patent attorney. Melton (BS EE ’81, JD ’84) is Founder and President of MEM Enterprises Group which owns, operates and manages Taco Bell and Five Guys Burgers restaurants and commercial real estate. The portfolio of Taco Bell restaurants is the largest owned by an exclusively African American group. The Five Guys portfolio includes the two highest-grossing locations in the United States. Before that,…

June 13, 2022

Limitless in Seattle

Reegan Spicer, a Mizzou industrial engineering student, traveled to the IISE Annual Conference in Seattle to explore career paths and enhance her engineering knowledge.