Mizzou Engineer helping develop badging system for open source software

A Mizzou Engineer is helping develop a new badging system that will give those in the open source software community an easy way to gauge a project’s diversity, equity and inclusivity.

Lin recognized with Missouri Honor Award for leadership, service

Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) Lin, ME ’83, MS EE ’90, PhD EE ’93, has been recognized with a Missouri Honor Award for his contributions to engineering and the College. The award is the highest honor bestowed by Mizzou Engineering.

Faculty, staff, students recognized for outstanding contributions, performance

The College of Engineering on Friday recognized faculty, staff and students for outstanding performance and dedication during an Awards Banquet alongside distinguished alumni.

Team develops technique to segment carbon nanotube forests in images

Mizzou Engineering researchers are another step closer to controlling the properties of carbon nanotubes growing in mass quantities.

Calyam, collaborators using AI to assist local news organizations

Each day, local newsrooms across the United States are inundated with a myriad of press releases and story pitches competing for attention from a staff already strapped for time. Prasad Calyam, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and his team are among an elite group of researchers working to integrate automation and artificial intelligence to help local news organizations solve this challenge and others.

Mizzou Engineer lends protein prediction expertise to climate change studies at Danforth Plant Science Center

An inter-institutional research team is using the power of computational analysis to pinpoint which plant genes confer resilience against rising temperatures that threaten global food supplies in the coming decades. Mizzou Engineering Professor Jianlin “Jack” Cheng — one of the first scientists in the world to use deep learning, a powerful artificial intelligence technique, to predict protein structures — adds a unique perspective to the work. Since 2018, he’s been collaborating with Dr. Ru Zhang, a plant scientist at the Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, to leverage computational tools in the study of plant genes.

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.”

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.

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.

Researcher working toward safer, more energy efficient LED lighting technology

A Mizzou Engineer has found a way to improve light-emitting diodes (LEDs), reducing the harsh blue hue associated with LED light fixtures.