Archive for April, 2012
UMKC Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) Team, an interdisciplinary team with students from several UMKC School’s including the School of Computing and Engineering (SCE), achieved a level of success at the Chicago Regional Competitions never before experienced. For the first time, ever UMKC received the 2012 All Star Team Award. It was presented to UMKC [...]
Rockhurst University and UMKC’s School of Computing and Engineering announced an innovative partnership that will allow students enrolled at Rockhurst University to receive a computer science, engineering or information technology degree. Working closely together, Dean Kevin Truman,SCE, and Dean Timothy McDonald, Rockhurst, developed the program. “Having two prestigious Kansas City universities partner to increase the [...]
UMKC SCE’s Steel Bridge Team is going to the AISC Steel Bridge Nationals! The team of 5 seniors and 5 juniors have been declared the regional champions, returning from the April 19-20 Mid-Continent Conference Steel Bridge Competition in Lincoln, NE with FIVE 1st place wins, including FIRST PLACE OVERALL. Judged in 7 categories, our UMKC [...]
Congratulations to Greg King, Assistant Professor in SCE’s Civil and Mechanical Engineering Department, and winner of the annual Leadership Excellence Achievement Program (LEAP) Award which was established by the Missouri Society of Professional Engineers Western Chapter (MSPE WC) in 2005. The LEAP award recognizes annually the SCE faculty, as determined by MSPE student chapter members [...]
Congratulations to Sean Rivers and Taya Upkes! They are UMKC SCE’s 2011-2012 Student Leadership Excellence Achievement Program (LEAP) Award winners and are featured on the Missouri Society of Professional Engineers Western Chapter (MSPE WC) webpage! Each year, the student LEAP award is earned by the two MSPE student chapter students that write the best 300 [...]
SCE proudly congratulates Whitney Molloy, Director of SCE Student Affairs, and Reza Derakhshani, Associate Professor of Computer Science Electrical Engineering, for being honored with Apple Polisher Awards at the April 12, 2012 banquet sponsored by UMKC’s Student Government Association (SGA)! SCE also proudly congratulates SCE Student Council President Tim Williams. Tim received the SGA’s 2012 [...]
The April 13 Iatan Power Plant 2 field trip sponsored by SCE’s MSPE/NSPE Student Chapter, provided 20 SCE engineering students a first-hand look at the state of the art coal-fired electric power Iatan Generation Station Unit 2 which opened in 2010. Iatan 2, erected over a five-year period, was one of the largest and most [...]
The UMKC SCE student chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers Baja Buggy Team hosted the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) first annual Mid-America Packards Car Show from 9 am – 2 pm on Wednesday, April 11, on the Quad at UMKC. Students, faculty, staff and visitors enjoyed getting their pictures taken with the vehicles [...]
Kyle Dunning, a SCE civil engineering student graduating with his BSCE from SCE on May 4, 2012, was recently awarded a $10,000 2012-2013 Tau Beta Pi Felllowship for full-time graduate study. Kyle will be attending the structures graduate program at the University of Texas Austin next year. This competitive and prestigious award, only 35 were [...]
Our Computer Science Electrical Engineering Department’s student programming team won third place in the March 31, 2012 programming contest sponsored by the Consortium for Computing Science in Colleges at its annual conference in Springfield, MO. Teams from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) student chapter competed. SCE is proud that our ACM student chapter programming team [...]
