Undergraduate Research

students sitting on couches at a table bird's eye view

June 11, 2025

Mizzou Engineering Spring 2025 capstone projects

Mizzou Engineers proposed transportation solutions, improved video games, designed better safety equipment and more through hands-on senior capstone projects.
students Cayse Martin, Brian Schwartz, Cody Stiern, Tyler Ruhland and Elie Chammas

June 11, 2025

Prioritizing safety: mechanical engineering students design new construction helmet

For their spring capstone project, five mechanical engineers created a new helmet fit with environmental sensors to improve work zone safety.
Brian Bluhm, Ben Dargue, Kenneth Jackson, Daniel Kim and Aaron Trebus

June 9, 2025

Using AI to make video games more exciting

One group of Mizzou IT students integrated artificial intelligence (AI) into a video game to make it less predictable and increase immersion into their virtual world.
Parker Dierkens, Michael Hackmann, Olo Masiza, Alex Savas and Blake Simpson

June 2, 2025

Mizzou computer science students develop AI music mixer

Five computer science students developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) model to revolutionize how people consume music.
From left, Maddie Beins, Cassie Lueck, Velissia Perez, Kaitlyn Blagg, and Campbell Marino

May 30, 2025

Mizzou civil engineering students develop a proposal to improve I-70

The students aimed to address traffic issues at two I-70 interchanges in Columbia: Providence Road and Rangeline Street.
Marisa Smith, Brenda Kudelka, Kaeden O’Connor and Brogan Haggerty

May 28, 2025

Students propose hydrogen plant with projected $4 billion revenue for capstone project

The chemical engineering team’s proposal was completed for their capstone project based on an AIChE Student Design Challenge prompt.
Sophia McCann (left) and Gabriella Ramirez

May 8, 2025

Mizzou Engineer earns Fulbright Canada-Mitacs Globalink Research Internship

Gabriella Ramirez – recently earned the Fulbright Canada-Mitacs Globalink Research Internship, which she will use to study generative AI.
Students Gavin Boley and Anyshya Hemphill with Professor Fang Wang

May 6, 2025

Mizzou Engineers explore broad applications of game development

Undergrads and grad students find opportunities and rewards in a rapidly growing, interdisciplinary field.
Show Me Research Week Winners 2025 Photo by Roger Meissen

April 22, 2025

Student research shines at Show Me Research Week

The following seven engineering students received awards recognizing work in their respective fields.
From left, Marissa Moore and Emma McDougal

April 17, 2025

Roommates in research: two Mizzou chemical engineers receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

After spending their undergraduate years conducting research with life-saving implications, Emma McDougal and Marissa Moore each received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.