Purna Biswa and Hang Summers, SCE computer science students, and Evgeniya Zvigunova, performance student, won first place in a recent UMB video contest Inspired to do more. Their video, Inspired to Make a Difference, earned them a cash prize and a trip to NYC where their video will be shown in Times Square.
UMKC Senior Design Team 2 members Tyler Cobb, James Mitchum, Josh Rawley, Tim Burke, and Jared Hargrave won 2nd Place in the IEEE Student Robotics Technical Report Competition. The award was presented at the Annual Banquet at the 2013 IEEE Region 5 Annual Awards Banquet held April 6, 2013 in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Reza Derakhshani, [...]
This year the Steel Bridge team competed at the Mid-Continent Conference Steel Bridge Regionals held at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville (SIUE). The competition was held April 4, with a record number of teams, fourteen, attending from the Mid Continent Conference. This year our team, the SteelRoos, did remarkably well but fell short of the top three. [...]
UMKC Civil Engineering students won the American Concrete Institute (ACI) Mortar Workability Competition. Our UMKC ACI team was awarded a certificate and award money at the 2013 ACI Spring Convention student awards luncheon held on Sunday, April 14, in Minneapolis, MN. In addition, their pictures will be featured in an upcoming ACI Concrete International magazine [...]
Jason Regina, a SCE civil engineering student, has been notified of his acceptance to the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) in the Engineering Laboratory (EL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD which is near Washington, DC. The eleven week summer program provides students the opportunity to work” elbow to [...]
The UMKC DBIA Student Chapter visited the office of Emery Sapp & Sons located in Kansas City, MO on March 8, 2013. After a tour of the facilities, Brian Johanning, Lowell Patterson and Tim Paulson gave a presentation on Emery Sapp & Sons business operations and industry hiring practices. The presentation included a management perspective [...]
Providing SCE students educational enhancement and career development opportunities are key missions of both our UMKC Missouri Society of Professional Engineers (MSPE) and our UMKC Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) student chapters. This Spring Break they teamed up to provide their members an astonishing opportunity, a travel expense paid trip to tour the United [...]
Benjamin Franklin wrote “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” He would be proud of the six UMKC students from our engineering honor society Eta Kappa Nu and the UMKC Robotics Team. On January 25, 2013 they travelled to Osage Trails Middle School in the Fort Osage [...]
SCE students looking for a job or internship have no difficulty accessing potential employers. The UMKC STEM Career Fair, held during E-Week on February 20, 2013, attracted 46 employers. Our SCE students arrived with resumes in hand and dressed for success. Several companies including Black & Veatch, Honeywell and Mueller Industries followed up with on [...]
UMKC has been recognized by the American Concrete Institute (ACI) as an ACI Excellent University. Only 16 universities received this award in 2012! The congratulations letter from ACI notes that the award “was initiated to recognize universities that have participated in ACI-related activities.” CE faculty Ceki Halmen, John Kevern and Ganesh Thiagarajan are ACI student [...]
