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WVU's Halabe Named ASNT Fellow
November 15th, 2012Udaya B. Halabe, professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at WVU, was recently selected as a Fellow by the American Society for Nondestructive Testing, Inc. -
125th anniversary of engineering education focus of exhibition at WVU's Watts Museum
November 9th, 2012Coinciding with the 125th anniversary of engineering education at WVU, the Royce J. and Caroline B. Watts Museum in the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources presents its latest exhibition, The Story of Engineering: West Virginia University, 1887-2012. The exhibition explores the history of engineering at WVU and traces the College's growth since the founding of its first department, civil and mining engineering, in 1887. -
Team from Summersville Middle School wins 25th annual Pumpkin Drop
October 26th, 2012On a day when 41 out of 284 pumpkins survived the drop off WVU's 11-story Engineering Sciences Building, it was team No. 196 from Summersville Middle School which ended up closest to the target, winning the 25th annual Pumpkin Drop. -
Entrepreneur/philanthropist Purdy in B&E Distinguished Speaker Series Nov. 8
October 25th, 2012Verl O. Purdy, a former chemical industry executive turned entrepreneur and philanthropist will appear in the WVU College of Business and Economics Distinguished Speaker Series Nov. 8 at 10 a.m. at the Erickson Alumni Center. . -
Sanghavi Family endows Scholarship in WVU's Statler College
October 23rd, 2012Ashok Sanghavi, and his wife, Kiran, have donated $26,000 to endow a scholarship to ensure that dream becomes a reality for students in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at WVU. -
WVU to celebrate 25th annual Pumpkin Drop Oct. 26
October 22nd, 2012For the 25th consecutive year, WVU's Pumpkin Drop will be sparking young imaginations as pumpkins will be falling from atop WVU's 11-story Engineering Science Building. This year's Pumpkin Drop is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 26, at 9:30 a.m. -
Private industry representatives reviewed WVU student engineering research at successful LIINC event
October 17th, 2012Representatives of some of the region's leading companies got to know some of WVU's most innovative engineering graduate students and their research work at another in a series of networking events sponsored by the Linking Innovation, Industry and Commercialization program Oct. 16 at the Waterfront Hotel. -
WVU professor says CyberWar is not a question of if but of when
October 12th, 2012WVU's Roy Nutter, a professor of computer science and electrical engineering agrees with remarks made by U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta about the possibility and impact of a CyberWar. -
WVU Mine Training Academy to host Murray Energy fire brigade competition
October 2nd, 2012Three fire brigade teams from Murray Energy will participate in a competition at West Virginia University's Academy for Mine Training and Energy Technologies on Friday, Oct. 5, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The simulated mine training facility is located at Dolls Run in Monongalia County. -
WVU's Gu to study safety of new-generation aircraft
October 2nd, 2012WVU's Yu Gu, an assistant professor mechanical and aerospace engineering, is researching aircraft health management systems, which can monitor and predict when a system or component will no longer perform its intended function. -
Northrop Grumman chairman, CEO and president Wes Bush to deliver Hiner Lecture
September 26th, 2012Wes Bush, chairman, chief executive officer and president of Northrop Grumman Corporation, will present "Engineering -- A Look to its Future in Business," at WVU on Wednesday, Oct. 3. The lecture, which is at 10 a.m. in room G102 of the Engineering Sciences Building, Evansdale campus, is part of the Glen H. Hiner Distinguished Lecture Series in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources. -
WVU Professor invited to participate in prestigious Engineering Education Symposium
September 25th, 2012Gregory Thompson, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at WVU, has been selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's fourth Frontiers of Engineering Education symposium. -
WVU's Roth wins Bayer MaterialScience Award
September 24th, 2012Elliot Roth, a doctoral candidate in chemical engineering at WVU, was part of a research project team that won the Bayer MaterialScience Science and Technology Award for achievement. -
WVU students' new Energy Club to promote alternative energy resources
September 24th, 2012A group of students is forming WVU's first Energy Club. -
WVU's Mohaghegh exploring possibilities of Japanese research on gas collection
September 18th, 2012A recent study conducted at Kyoto University in Japan and published in the online version of New Scientist, claims compressed carbon dioxide may be more suitable for fracturing methane-rich rock than water. Shahab Mohaghegh, a professor of petroleum and natural gas engineering at WVU and an expert in well modeling, says the study may hasten the development of large-scale carbon sequestration. -
Statler College to host annual Career Fair
September 18th, 2012WVU's Benjamin M. College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, in collaboration with WVU's Career Services Center, will host its annual Engineering and Computer Science Career Fair Sept. 26-27. -
WVU researcher receives National Science Foundation grant for electricity infrastructure expansion
September 17th, 2012Qipeng (Phil) Zheng, assistant professor of industrial and management systems engineering at WVU, received a $172, 655 grant from the National Science Foundation to study ways to integrate renewable energy resources into next-generation power systems. -
First-ever Statler Scholars announced at West Virginia University
September 6th, 2012Seven students have been named the first-ever Benjamin M. Statler Scholars in Engineering and Mineral Resources at WVU. The group, made up of six undergraduates and one graduate student, will receive scholarship and research support from funding that was part of the historic $34 million gift made by Statler and his wife, Jo, earlier this year. -
WVU's Byun to improve power consumption, bandwidth in mobile devices
September 5th, 2012WVU's Gyungsu Byun, an assistant professor in the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, will be conducting research to improve energy efficiency and bandwidth in mobile devices as part of a National Science Foundation initiative. -
WVU alumnus James William Harvey to deliver engineering school's Poundstone Lecture
September 5th, 2012James William Harvey, former managing director and senior vice president of the Energy and Mining Group at Wells Fargo Insurance Services of West Virginia, Inc., will speak Thursday, Sept. 13, at WVU as part of the Department of Mining Engineering's William N. Poundstone Lecture Series. The lecture is at 6 p.m. in Grand Hall A of the Erickson Alumni Center.
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