Archive for February, 2011
The Toyota Ride & Drive event, sponsored by SCE and A&S held on the UMKC campus on Tuesday, Feb. 22, introduced UMKC engineering and computer science students to the prototype Toyota Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle-Advanced with an anticipated release in 2015, and the Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid Vechicle, with an anticipated release in 2012. UMKC [...]
SCE congratulates Assistant Professor Praveen Rao for being selected by IBM Corporation to receive a $10,000 research gift for his proposal titled “Towards Smarter Healthcare: New Healthcare IT Curriculum.” Through this award, Prof. Rao will develop new healthcare IT curriculum for students pursuing CS and IT degrees. Per IBM’s award letter, “this award is highly [...]
Five SCE Missouri Society of Professional Engineers (MSPE) student chapter members volunteered at the 2011 MATHCOUNTS Competition. They helped a 115 local 6th-8th graders demonstrate their knack for problem solving and ultimately contribute to a future career in the STEM fields. The competition was hosted at Burns and McDonnell and sponsored by MSPE Western Chapter. [...]
Bridge Approach Slab Research conducted by Ganesh Thiagarajan, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at UMKC’s School of Computing and Engineering, is featured in MoDOT’s January 2011 electronic newsletter, Fast forward, under the title More Cost Efficient Bridge Approach Slabs Possible. Fast forward notes, “ Bridges are expensive to build and rehabilitate. And just a minor [...]
Kevin Truman, Dean of the School of Computing and Engineering, and Vijay Kumar, Professor of Computer Science, traveled to India in mid December 2010 and met with a number of higher education institutions to explore the possibility of academic degree collaborations as well as research partnerships. Meetings were held with highly ranked institutions located in [...]
