Accomplishments
Lifesaving award goes to Goodridge
Doug Roberts, chief of University Police, presented S&T police officer Zach Goodridge with a lifesaving award at the department’s quarterly staff meeting on June 9 for Goodridge’s response to a medical emergency. Goodridge, along with Rolla police officer Christopher Giacolone, performed CPR on an individual in cardiac arrest at the Havener Center on Feb. 25. Chief Roberts also presented Giacolone with a lifesaving award at the Rolla police station.
Read More »Feys receives ACI Foundation grant for concrete research
Dr. Dimitri Feys, assistant professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering, has received a $50,000 grant from the American Concrete Institute (ACI) Foundation for research on self-consolidating concrete, or SCC. Feys is the principal investigator of the research project, which is titled “Minimizing the Effect of Pumping on SCC Workability and Freeze-thaw Durability.” The project was one of four selected by the ACI Foundation’s Concrete Research Council.
Read More »Professor receives governor’s award
Dr. Xiaoping Du, Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri S&T, is the 2017 recipient of the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Du, who teaches introduction to engineering design, dynamics and probabilistic engineering design, has been a member of the S&T faculty since 2002.
Read More »Curriculum development grants go to Schmidt, Semon
Missouri S&T’s Innovation Team awarded two curriculum development faculty grants of $3,000 to two faculty members for 2017-2018. Formerly known as the Innovation in Education Grant, the program is administered through the Center for Educational Research and Teaching Innovation (CERTI).
Read More »Bohner publishes book on time scales calculus
Dr. Martin Bohner, Curators’ Distinguished Professor of mathematics and statistics, is an author of a new textbook on calculus time scales for undergraduate and graduate students. Multivariable Dynamic Calculus on Time Scales, published by Springer International Publishing, is available as an eBook and a hardcover textbook. Bohner wrote the book with Dr. Svetlin Georgiev, assistant professor of mathematics and informatics at Sofia University in Bulgaria.
Read More »Adekpedjou conducting research in France
Dr. Akim Adekpedjou, associate professor of mathematics and statistics, is spending part of this summer at the Institute of Applied Science of University of Toulouse in France, funded by the National Center of Scientific Research of France. He is working on a project titled “Modeling and Analysis of Spatially Correlated Failure Time Data with Intermittently Observed Time Varying Covariates and Applications in Epidemiology and Biomedical Studies.”
Read More »Humboldt fellowship takes math professor to Germany
Dr. Xiaoming He, associate professor of mathematics and statistics, has received a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. As part of the fellowship, He will visit the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany from February to August 2018 and work with the research group of Dr. Ulrich Rude for coupling porous media flow with free flow by using two modeling ideas.
Read More »Design teams bring home trophies
Three Missouri S&T design teams recently competed and excelled in competitions:
- Missouri S&T’s Rocket Design Team finished in second place among 96 teams in the inaugural Spaceport America Cup, held June 20-24 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The competition challenges teams of college students to design, build and launch rockets to a targeted altitude. The Missouri S&T team also won the James Barrowman Prize for the most accurate flight prediction among the 96 teams.
Grad students attend Women in Leadership Conference
The Office of Graduate Studies sponsored a group of graduate student women attending the University of Missouri System’s 2017 Women in Leadership Conference on June 15 in Columbia. Attendees were nominated by department chairs and included:
Read More »Doe Run interns gain hands-on experience in mining, metals industry
The Doe Run Company, based in St. Louis, selected nine college students for summer internships. Four of the students selected are Missouri S&T students.
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