Accomplishments
Employees log nearly 35,000 miles during walking challenge
Healthy for Life, the T.E. Atkins UM Wellness Program, is recognizing faculty and staff at Missouri S&T for walking 77.1 million steps during the eight-week walking challenge in July and August.
Read More »Holmes named ASCE Fellow
Dr. Robert Holmes, adjunct professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. ASCE Fellows are decided by their professional accomplishments and election. Less than 3.5 percent of ASCE members are named Fellow.
Read More »Oerther receives fourth Fulbright award
Dr. Daniel Oerther, professor of environmental engineering, has been selected as a Fulbright Specialist Roster Candidate from 2016-2021. The Fulbright Specialist Program is a recent innovation that promotes links between U.S. scholars and professionals and their counterparts at host institutions overseas through short-term exchanges of two to six weeks in duration with up to three exchanges to different countries occurring in a five year window.
Read More »DeWitt publishes peer-reviewed article
Dr. Petra DeWitt, an assistant professor of history and political science, published a peer-reviewed article titled “ ‘Clear and Present Danger’: The Legacy of the 1917 Espionage Act in the United States,” in Vol. 42, Issue 2, Summer 2016, of Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques. The journal publishes articles in English and French and is committed to interdisciplinary studies as well as comparative approaches.
Read More »SFA earns DHE grant for fourth year
For the fourth year in a row, student financial assistance has earned the Missouri Department of Higher Education’s $25,000 Default Prevention Grant. The proposal was drafted and submitted by Sara Lewis, manager of student financial assistance, which builds on work done for previous grants. These funds cover the Miner Money Management Financial Literacy programs as well as other default prevention measures that Lewis manages. These programs have kept S&T’s Cohort Default Rate at 3.2 percent, allowing students to become successful, responsible alumni.
Read More »McMillin speaks on the role of education in cybersecurity
Dr. Bruce McMillin, associate dean of the College of Engineering and Computing and a professor of computer science, recently spoke at the Missouri Governor’s Cybersecurity Summit. McMillin presented “The Role of Education in Cybersecurity” with two other Missouri school representatives. The session aimed to provide an overview of the role education is playing in cybersecurity and shared resources to help bolster skills within various organizations.
Read More »ASEM award named after William Daughton
The American Society for Engineering Management recently named one of its annual awards after Dr. William Daughton, professor emeritus of engineering management and systems engineering. Daughton recently retired as executive director of the society, and to recognize his service and contributions to the society, ASEM renamed one of its service awards to the William Daughton World Headquarters Service Award. This award recognizes significant contributions to the streamlining, enhancement or improvement of the day-to-day operations of ASEM world headquarters. Daughton is also an ASEM Fellow.
Read More »Sneed improves ACI building codes
Dr. Lesley Sneed, associate professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering, has been recognized by the American Concrete Institute for moving building codes forward. Sneed served as principle investigator of a project titled “Interface Shear Transfer of Lightweight Aggregate Concretes with Different Lightweight Aggregates.” The findings from this research proposed revisions to the next edition of the ACI 318 code and PCI Design Handbook for shear-friction design provisions of a smooth interface condition.
Read More »Westenberg recognized by ASM
Dr. Dave Westenberg, associate professor of biological sciences, was recognized at the American Society for Microbiology’s annual meeting (ASM Microbe) for his service as chair of the ASM Committee for K-12 Outreach. ASM president Lynn Enquist and ASM Education Board chair Mary Sanchez Lanier presented Westenberg with an engraved vase in recognition of his service.
Read More »Bai earns SPE award
Dr. Baojun Bai, professor of geosciences and geological and petroleum engineering, earned the 2016 Regional Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty from the Society of Petroleum Engineers. This award is an acknowledgement of his outstanding contribution to the field.
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