Archive for May 18th, 2011
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 [...]
