Student Success, Page 15

Madi Robinson and Jimmy Keating with the concrete ST. Patrick Statue and Engineers' Week arch

Co-Chairs discuss new events and memories ahead of Engineers’ Week 2024

Meet 2024 E-Week co-presidents Madi Robinson and Jimmy Keating.

Mizzou National Society of Black Engineers members holding awards from the 2023 Fall Regional Conference

Mizzou NSBE recognized as Most Outstanding MO Zone Chapter

Mizzou’s chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) has been recognized as the Most Outstanding MO Zone Chapter, an honor given to one chapter in Missouri each year at the Fall Regional Conference.
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Through internship at NASA, Mizzou Engineer finds satellite imagery key to monitoring environmental changes

The ice that used to cover roughly 85% of Alaska is thawing, causing ground to collapse and putting communities at risk. Jaweed Nazary, a Ph.D. student in civil and environmental engineering, has found that satellite imagery is key to pinpointing exactly which locations are most susceptible to these changing conditions.
Students wearing VR goggles superimposed over Lafferre Hall. Photo illustration by Blake Dinsdale

MUVR: shaping tomorrow’s innovators

MU students are harnessing the virtual to train for reality. Austin Barr is working with his fellow IT and computer science majors to raise awareness of the University of Missouri’s Virtual Reality Organization (MUVR) across campus and open the club and the Collaborative Research Environments for Extended Reality (CREXR) Lab to students from all disciplines.
mechanical engineering capstone team before presenting

Mechanical engineering students develop airbrake system as part of capstone

Learn more about one mechanical engineering capstone project, during which students worked with their client, Mizzou Space Program, to develop an airbrake system to improve accuracy of rocket flight altitudes.
A screenshot of the capstone group's degree planner

Information technology students delve into web design with capstone project

The information technology capstone group set out to develop a degree audit program. Right now, IT degree audits can be a little daunting as students have numerous options to take electives around web and mobile app development, media technology, programming and cybersecurity. However, before they can proceed to advanced-level courses, students have to know which prerequisite courses are required.
Students presenting to Industrial Engineering faculty and IAB Members. From left, RJ Morrison, Jack Christian, Michael Talarico and Brennan Kiger; project outcomes slide

Industrial engineering students reconfigure workflow layout for local manufacturing facility

For their capstone course, students studying industrial engineering work with a client to develop a solution to an engineering problem. This fall, one group was assigned to work with American Air Filter (AAF) to reconfigure their production layout for one of the company’s products.

From left, Bryan Velazquez, Trey Casella, Jacob Dodge, Shelby Hick and Jason Long presenting project

Civil engineering students design walking trail as part of capstone project

This fall, one capstone group is working on designing a potential path for the Hinkson Creek Trail to propose to the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) and City of Columbia Parks and Recreation.
The group presenting their project. From left, Kathleen Groner, Paige Snider and Jack Shultz

Chemical engineering students complete AIChE student design challenge for capstone project

Each semester, chemical engineering capstone students complete the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Student Design Competition. The competition is held in the spring, so students in fall capstone courses solve a prior year’s challenge. This fall, students completed a challenge first released for the 2020-2021 academic year, for which they acted as a consulting firm working with a plant in Iraq to retrofit a toppings refinery in order to comply with environmental regulations.
From left, Sidney Moss, Isabella Parks and Rachel Solverud with prototype

Biological and biomedical engineering students redesign manufacturing process for vocal implant

This fall, one biological and biomedical engineering capstone group documented their project working with a surgeon to redesign the manufacturing process for a type of medical implant, showcasing another example of how a Mizzou Engineering education prepares students for their careers.