The Phelps for the Fort committee, which includes Missouri S&T and the chambers of commerce for Rolla and St. James, will host an Association of the United States Army barbecue at 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 1, at Veterans Memorial Park on Southview Drive in Rolla. The event is open to the campus community.

Have you recently received an award from a professional organization or civic group? Presented at a conference? Received some other form of recognition? Tell us about it through the eConnection accomplishments form. We’re looking to share the good news of our staff, faculty and students with the campus community. Submissions to the accomplishments are published monthly. Read about the latest accomplishments at http://econnection.mst.edu/category/accomplishments.

University of Missouri System President Mun Y. Choi will present the system’s budget plan for fiscal year 2018 and beyond during a presentation at 1 p.m. Friday, June 2, on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus. The presentation will be live streamed at 1 p.m. Friday, June 2, in Room 125 Butler-Carlton Civil Engineering Hall, and members of the Missouri S&T community are encouraged to attend. Faculty, staff and students may also watch the address via a live stream (the link will be available on www.umsystem.edu/president/budget_planning) on the device of their choice.

By order of U.S. President Donald Trump, all flags at all state and government offices will be flown at half-staff until noon Monday, May 29, in observance of Memorial Day. The flag, when flown at half-staff, should be first hoisted to the peak for an instant and then lowered to the half-staff position, and returned to full staff at noon.

The heating, ventilation and air conditioning system (HVAC) in Schrenk Hall West will be shut down at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 30, to clean the intake air system. The cleaning will take approximately two hours. Once completed, the system will be restarted; however, there will be intermittent outages throughout the day to balance the system and reset all thermostats. This outage will not affect Schrenk Hall East or any of the building exhaust systems.

Most faculty and staff believe Missouri S&T’s official communication channels keep them informed, according to an internal communications survey conducted in February. Overall, 67 percent of respondents said they are “very well informed” or “well informed” and 27 percent said they are “adequately informed.” View the survey results.

A few highlights of the survey results include:

• Of 12 communication channels, the top three that survey respondents said they use to receive information and identified as how they prefer to receive information are:
  1. Faculty and staff eConnection
  2. Supervisor or department chair
  3. Departmental meetings
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The University of Missouri System’s Board of Curators on May 23 voted to increase tuition by 2.1 percent at all four campuses for Fiscal Year 2018. At Missouri S&T, the yearly tuition for Missouri resident undergraduate students will increase by $201 when compared to Fiscal Year 2017. The tuition increase complies with a Missouri law (Higher Education Student Funding Act, or HESFA, Senate Bill 389) that requires tuition increases do not exceed the state’s consumer price index. Missouri’s CPI is currently 2.1 percent.

From iPads to interstates, engineers change the world. Encourage your teen to attend Missouri S&T’s Jackling Introduction to Engineering camp for rising high school juniors and seniors. Attendees will participate in hands-on activities and learn how math and science relate to engineering. Camps will be held the weeks of June 11-15, June 25-29 and July 9-13. Get more details about Jackling camp. Learn about all summer camps at Missouri S&T.

Dr. Suzanna Long, professor of engineering management and systems engineering, has been named chair of the department. The appointment takes effect July 1.