A massive two-mile-wide EF4 tornado (wind speeds from 166 – 200 miles per hour) hit Oklahoma City area on May 20, killing 24 men, women and children as it flattened homes, school buildings, farms and businesses. Just two years earlier, an EF5-tornado struck Joplin, Missouri taking 162 lives and incurring billions dollars of civil infrastructure [...]
Ceki Halmen, Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering, has received funding for “Decision Support Tool Model for Scheduling and Resource Allocation in Construction Projects” research in collaboration with Dr. Haitao Li from University of Missouri-Saint Louis. They will receive $37,000 from the University of Missouri Interdisciplinary Intercampus Research Program. The award is competitive and signifies confidence [...]
Nahid Hossain and Munem Hossain, IPh.D Electrical Engineering Students, were selected to present their papers at the 2013 Community of Scholars Symposium, joining five other doctoral students from across the UMKC campus. Earning this semi-finalist status, was a great honor and gave them the opportunity to present at the May 9, 2013 Scholars Symposium. Nahid’s [...]
School of Nursing (SoN) Endowed Professor Marco Brotto and UMKC School of Computing and Engineering (SCE) Associate Professor Reza Derakhshani have received UM Fast Track II Initiative Funds. Their project, the “Prototyping of a mobile electronic sensing device for the diagnosis of myocardial infarcts”, is a collaborative effort. The UM Intellectual Property Fast Track II [...]
SCE congratulates Assistant Professor Praveen Rao for being selected by IBM Corporation to receive a $10,000 research gift for his proposal titled “Towards Smarter Healthcare: New Healthcare IT Curriculum.” Through this award, Prof. Rao will develop new healthcare IT curriculum for students pursuing CS and IT degrees. Per IBM’s award letter, “this award is highly [...]
Daniel Leon-Salas, an assistant professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (CSEE) at the UMKC School of Computing and Engineering (SCE), recently received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to support his research on hybrid energy-harvesting image sensors. Digital cameras use millions of pixels to capture images, but about 90 percent of those pixels [...]
KCUR Up to Date program, hosted by Steve Kraske, has invited Vijay Kumar to talk about his U.S. Air Force research which could produce vehicles with minds of their own if Professor Vijay Kumar’s project goes as planned. Professor Vijay Kumar is designing and developing a prototype of a “self-synchronizing moving objects” system under the summer [...]
UMKC U.S. Air Force research could produce vehicles with minds of their own If Professor Vijay Kumar’s project goes as planned, maybe texting while driving will not be the issue it is today. An automatic system would guide cars on their way, leaving the “driver” free to text, shave or even nap! Such a system [...]
SCE Professor Reza Derakhshani is an invited speaker at MSPE’s 73rd Annual Convention at the Lake of the Ozarks on June 16, 2010. Biometrics: now and the future is his talk’s title. He will present the current state of the art in biometric identification, discussing both their strengths and vulnerabilities and conclude with a discussion on the [...]
One relatively modest grant might not seem like enough to change the world. But in the hands of researchers at the UMKC School of Computing and Engineering (SCE), it can help build a better knee, a better bicycle, better concrete, help prevent osteoarthritis, help the elderly recover from falls and even identify who’s telling the [...]
