Kristofferson Culmer

March 18, 2024

Faculty, staff, students, alumni recognized with Engineering Awards

Mizzou Engineering on Friday recognized outstanding faculty, staff and students for their dedication and service as part of the College’s annual awards banquet.

Dec. 18, 2023

Mizzou Engineering celebrates graduates at December Commencement

More than 200 students graduated from Mizzou Engineering on Saturday, Dec. 16.

Cedric

April 25, 2023

Engineer a future you’ll love: Q&A with The College Tour star Cedric Harris

Cedric Harris is an information technology student at Mizzou Engineering—he also recently starred in Mizzou's episode of The College Tour. We asked Cedric to talk to us about his experience filming The College Tour and time at Mizzou.

April 6, 2022

Teaching Spot new tricks

Students in the Autonomous Systems Lab at Mizzou Engineering are teaching Spot the robot some new tricks.

Nov. 17, 2021

Directors appointed to lead new IT program labs

Mizzou Engineering has created two new labs within the Information Technology Program designed to give students additional hands-on research opportunities.

Spot with plume.

Oct. 5, 2021

Spot in the spotlight

Information Technology students spent months programming Spot, an agile robot from Boston Dynamics, to perform alongside Marching Mizzou and the Golden Girls at the Oct. 2, 2021, home game.

Feb. 24, 2021

Students Now Putting Spot the Robot to Work

Watch as sophomore Stephen Bowen explains the programming used to code Spot (Video courtesy of Kristofferson Culmer) It’s not quite dancing in viral videos just yet, but Mizzou Engineering’s Spot is getting a little smarter each day, thanks to an inaugural group of student programmers. Spot is an agile mobile robot from Boston Dynamics perhaps best known for videos of it dancing to popular tunes such as Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk” and “Do You Love Me?” by The Contours. The Information Technology Program acquired a Spot this semester to help students learn to work with autonomous systems. Now,…

Spot the robot in the hallway

Feb. 18, 2021

See Spot Work: Spot the Robot Now Embedded in IT Program

See Spot walk. See Spot run. Now, students in the Information Technology Program at Mizzou Engineering are seeing how they can make Spot perform more complicated tasks.