Archive for May, 2011
Jorge Colman, an SCE Electrical Computer Engineering Student, has invented and developed a device that allows iPhone and iPad users to wirelessly watch and manipulate applications on their TV, monitor or projector. The invention would allow people to play games, video chat, surf the web, watch movies, browse pictures, display PowerPoint presentations and manipulate anything [...]
Four SCE professors have received 2011 University of Missouri Research Board (UMRB) Awards. These awards are competitive and their goal is to provide leverage toward external funding. We congratulate: Drs. Reza Derakhshani and Gregory King (Co-PIs) for project title Biomechanical and Neurological Correlates of Balance Impairment Dr. Amber Stern for project title Aging Bone: Age [...]
170 SCE undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students graduated May 6, 2011 from the School of Computing and Engineering. Leonard Graham, P.E., President of Taliaferro & Browne, Inc., a Kansas City consulting engineering firm, and SCE alum, was our keynote speaker. He spoke on how his technical education has helped him in his career and future [...]
Mohammad Kia, Ph.D. student in Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Research at UMKC SCE is one of four finalists in the “Grand Challenge Competition to Predict In Vivo Knee Loads”. The competition was sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and National Science Foundation (NSF). Mohammad will present his findings at the June 2011 ASME Summer [...]
Kevin Truman’s opt-ed article, Now is the time to consider a future in science, technology, regarding science, technology, engineering and math education was published in the Kansas City Star on Sunday, May 1st. Dr. Kevin Truman has been an engineering educator for over 30 years and the dean of the School of Computing and Engineering [...]
Our UMKC ASCE Steel Bridge team competed in the 2011 Mid Continental conference at K-State in Manhattan, KS on Thursday, April 28. The following is a brief account of the team’s 2011 accomplishments. This year has been a rebuilding year for our UMKC Steel Bridge team as UMKC did not compete last year thus losing [...]
