Archive for September, 2009
SCE Students Will Assist at the National ASCE Conference This October The UMKC Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (SCE ASCE) will be representing Kansas City’s Engineering School at the ASCE 139th Annual National Civil Engineering Conference October 29-31, 2009. The theme for this conference is “From Builders to Integrators- Engineers Leading the [...]
Dr. Wang Yu-Ping received his second NIH grant under the Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) program. Title: Accurate detection of chromosomal abnormalities with multi-color image processing Funding agency: NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Principal Investigator: Wang Yu-Ping Period: 09/21/2009 – 08/31/2012 Amount: $229,519 His first NIH grant was awarded in July, 2009 Title: [...]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has approved $40,000 for an Early Concept Grant for EAGER: Improving Pedestrian Safety Using Pervious Concrete to Reduce Slip-Related Falls, beginning January 2010. This one-year project will provide support for one graduate student and enable the PI’s, Dr. Greg King and Dr. John Kevern, to advance their concept in an effort to [...]
SCE Students engaged in lively discussion with the 2009-2010 NSPE President Samuel W. Grossman, P.E., F.NSPE when he visited SCE on September 17, 2009. Students obtained information related to P.E. licensure issues and professional practice. For 46 consecutive years, the President of the National Society of Professional Engineering (NSPE) has visited Kansas City to connect [...]
The $1.2 million NSF-sponsored project, “Building an Alliance for New Careers in STEM (KC-BANCS): An Infusion Model for Inclusion of Youth and Veterans with Disabilities” is a community engagement opportunity that embodies and reinforces the UMKC and School of Computing and Engneering’s mission of being a model urban university, one that we strive to have [...]
See UMKC Press Release -Balanced Among the Disiciplines: UMKC Human Motion Laboratory supports interdisciplinary research for pictures and more details. In the third-floor Human Motion Laboratory at the UMKC School of Computing and Engineering (SCE), a research subject adorned with reflective body markers and electromyography (EMG) sensors walks across four metal plates as cameras record his movements. Assistant [...]
The School of Computing and Engineering (SCE) Student Council fed 400 students, faculty and staff at the SCE Welcome Picnic on September 2. Sandwiches, chips and sodas were provided by the council, and the first 300 students received a t-shirt with the winning slogan for the annual SCE slogan contest. This year’s winning slogan was [...]
NBC Action News interviewed SCE’s Dr. Deb O’Bannon, Associate Professor, Civil and Mechanical Engineering Department, regarding the possible cause of a recent outbreak of violent illnesses at a local restaurant. For the full story see Copper Tubing May Be Catalyst For Illness – NBC Action News.
