Student’s space shuttle research wins national competition
A University of Missouri-Rolla graduate student’s research on a guidance system for the next generation of space shuttles won first place nationally in the graduate student competition of the 2003...
View ArticleBoeing supports product innovation program
Boeing officials recently announced a donation of $215,000 to help fund a new Product Innovation and Creativity Center (PICC) at University of Missouri-Rolla. The gift is the third in a series of...
View ArticleStudents create tethered satellite to research distributed systems
Call it a match made for the heavens: MR SAT and MRS SAT, a pair of microsatellites created by UMR engineering students, will tie the knot before they launch into space. The UMR students are working...
View ArticleUMR-developed technique may guide future space launches
A new flight-control method created by UMR researchers to launch missiles and aircraft may one day send unmanned space vehicles on voyages to the moon, Mars or beyond. The technique developed by...
View ArticleUMR places second in heavy-lift aircraft event
A team of UMR students finished second in an international weight-lifting competition of radio-controlled airplanes held April 16-18 in Deland, Fla. The UMR team also received a trophy for lifting the...
View ArticleUMR receives $7.3 million for aerospace manufacturing research
The recent award of a $7.3 million contract to UMR to develop new manufacturing methods for the aerospace industry is "a prime example of how government, industry and universities can work together to...
View ArticleUMR team finishes second in airplane event
For the second time in 2004, a radio-controlled airplane designed by UMR students carried the most weight in an international student-design competition, and the team finished second overall in the...
View ArticleAlumnus John Toomey donates $5 million for ME/AE Complex project
Plans to renovate and expand the University of Missouri-Rolla’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Complex moved a big step closer to reality on Friday, July 23, with the university’s announcement of...
View ArticleUMR receives additional $3.5 million for Center for Aerospace Manufacturing...
UMR’s Center for Aerospace Manufacturing Technologies (CAMT) will receive an additional $3.5 million in federal funds for the coming year, U.S. Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) announced Wednesday during a visit...
View ArticleUMR students ready to depart for Houston flight
As NASA prepares the Discovery shuttle for blast-off, a group of University of Missouri-Rolla students are prepping themselves for their own flight mission set for July 21-30 in Houston. The...
View ArticleUMR to break ground on Toomey Hall
The University of Missouri-Rolla will break ground on a $24 million renovation and expansion project during a ceremony from 2:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30., near the current site of the Mechanical...
View ArticleME Annex is falling down
Constructed a year before the Wright Brothers made their historic flight, the UMR Mechanical Engineering Annex is being razed to make way for the first phase of a $27.6 million expansion project and...
View ArticleHonor society names UMR senior to elite eight
Lori Ziegler of Fenton, Mo., a senior in aerospace engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, recently received the 2006 North Central Region Award from Sigma Gamma Tau, an honor society for...
View ArticleUMR professor’s invention may quiet electric motor industry
A University of Missouri-Rolla researcher and two of his colleagues have received a patent for a system that could improve the performance of electric motors. Dr. Daniel Stutts, associate professor of...
View ArticleMissouri S&T professor to receive 2008 AIAA Aeroacoustics Award
Dr. Walter Eversman, Curators’ Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has been chosen to receive the American Institute of Aeronautics and...
View ArticleResearchers get NASA funding to study how to propel and control tiny spacecraft
NASA hopes to expand scientific understanding of the Earth and the universe, but current small satellites that gather vital information can’t be controlled once they’ve been released into space. Two...
View ArticlePh.D. candidate Andrew Brune receives NASA Space Technology Fellowship
Andrew Brune of St. Charles, Mo., a Ph.D. student in aerospace engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, is one of 65 graduate students in the United States to be named a NASA Space...
View ArticleMissouri S&T student honored by Women in Aerospace
Erin M. Kirchmeier of Kansas City, Mo., a senior aerospace engineering major at Missouri University of Science and Technology, is one of nine women who will be recognized later this month for their...
View ArticleNew forum to share control systems research, best practices
Starting this month, a new online forum designed to connect researchers and students interested in control systems – the automated, computerized control of machines and other systems — will launch...
View ArticleMissouri S&T to host Private Pilot Ground School this fall
Missouri University of Science and Technology’s department of mechanical and aerospace engineering is sponsoring a Private Pilot Ground School this fall through Missouri S&T’s distance and...
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