Archive for June, 2011
On May 26th SCE students travelled to Pittsburg, KS to compete in the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Baja Buggy competition in which 106 teams, including several international teams and one all-female team competed. Our team included Jesus Zamarripa, Oscar Vallecillos, Brian Huff, Alireza Farahani, Isaac Chleborad, Dwayne Dsouza and Francisco Garcia-Moreno. Several students volunteered [...]
52 golfers signed up for this year’s SCE Alumni Golf tournament and hit the links at Deer Creek Golf Course on June 1, 2011. The day concluded with a clubhouse dinner and presentations. Sponsors included Black & Veatch, Burns & McDonnell, Gibbens Drake Scott, Olsson Associates, The Golf Doctor, Trekk Design Group, and Superior Bowen [...]
A team from Engineers Without Borders (EWB), including seven UMKC engineering students worked during May 2011 with a small impoverished community on the outskirts of La Romana, Dominican Republic, to build a 24 foot tall water tower using shovels, a small gas mixer, and large stack of buckets. . The tower has a 2500 gallon [...]
Matthew Parish — a junior Computer Science major in the School of Computing and Engineering and a Spanish minor in the UMKC College of Arts and Sciences — received a Gilman Study Abroad scholarship and a Hy Vile Study Abroad award from the Truman Foundation. Parish will spend the fall semester studying in Granada, Spain. For the [...]
