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WVU researchers work to address challenges of smart transit systems
September 4th, 2012As electric vehicles gain momentum as a way to combat dependence on fossil fuels, WVU researcher Sarika Khushalani-Solanki is looking for ways to develop a "smart grid" infrastructure that will keep them from causing their own drain on the nation's power supply. -
WVU part of NASA and Space Grant Consortium's flight design challenge
August 28th, 2012Teams of students from five colleges and universities in the state, including WVU, will have the opportunity to work with engineers from NASA?s Independent Verification and Validation Facility on a Space Flight Design Challenge. -
WVU's Statler College welcomes 12 to its faculty
August 24th, 2012As part of its 2020 Strategic Plan for the Future, WVU funded a number of new tenure track faculty positions for academic year 2012-2013, with many slated for the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) disciplines. As part of this initiative, the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources has added 12 faculty members, effective fall semester 2012. -
WVU's Mohaghegh reappointed to DOE advisory committee
August 22nd, 2012Shahab Mohaghegh, professor of petroleum and natural gas engineering at WVU, has been re-appointed to the Department of Energy?s Unconventional Resources Technology Advisory Committee by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu. -
WVU's Hota GangaRao, director of constructed facilities center and professor at the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, has received a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the durability and stability of pultruded and infused fiber reinforced polymers, or FRPs.
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Devon Gosnell, who earned her JD from WVU in 1975, has created the Kenneth and Helen Gosnell Scholarship, which will provide financial assistance to first-year students enrolled in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources.
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WVU's Statler College creates student co-op program; small businesses seeking employees encouraged to apply
August 1st, 2012WVU's Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering is working with small businesses to establish a database of available employment opportunities for incoming students. The Early Start Co-Op Program is an effort to retain and graduate students the College might ordinarily lose because of financial problems. -
WVU alumni endow scholarship in parents' names
July 16th, 2012WVU alumni J. Reginald "Reg" and Billie Dietz established the Ruckman and Balmy Dietz Scholarship Fund in honor of Reg's mother and father. The $25,000 endowment will provide undergraduate scholarship support to students interested in studying chemical engineering. -
Two Fayette County, W.Va., natives with a lifetime history of service to the mining industry will be inducted into the West Virginia Coal Hall of Fame at the organization?s 15th annual induction ceremony, scheduled for Friday, May 4, at Stonewall Resort in Roanoke, W.Va. The hall resides in the Mineral Resources Building of the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at WVU.
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NAE publication to feature WVU's projects with industry and building energy use program
April 30th, 2012WVU's Projects with Industry and Building Energy Use program has earned a place in the National Academy of Engineering's Real World Engineering Education publication. The publication highlights model programs that demonstrate methods of infusing real world experience into engineering education. -
WVU's Solley to receive outstanding advising certificate of merit
April 27th, 2012Dave Solley, undergraduate program coordinator of mechanical and aerospace engineering at WVU's Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, has been selected as an Outstanding Advising Certificate of Merit recipient by the National Academic Advising Association. -
WVU's Statler College award winners announced
April 20th, 2012Warren Myers, associate dean for academic affairs of WVU's Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, announced the winners of the College's outstanding teachers, researchers and advisors for 2011-2012. The awards were handed out at the College's annual Honors Ceremony, which took place on Friday, April 20. -
Three win WVU's top award for academic advising
April 20th, 2012This year?s recipients winners of West Virginia University?s Nicholas Evans Advising Award,are: Jan-Erin Miller, Cindy Tanner and Chris Randall. -
WVU senior engineering students to showcase design projects April 23
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WVU doctoral student Weadon earns engineering award
April 18th, 2012WVU?s Timothy Weadon is one of 10 recipients of the 2012 Student Leader Experience Awards, presented by the Society for the Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering or SAMPE. -
WVU's Whitelam earns prestigious internship
April 18th, 2012WVU's Cameron Whitelam, a doctoral student at the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering, earned a prestigious internship out of a competitive pool of 5,000 applicants. Whitelam was accepted to the Office of Naval Research through the Naval Research Enterprise Internship program at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, in Philadelphia. -
Air Force's Corsi to deliver annual Gochenour Lecture at WVU
April 10th, 2012Robert E. Corsi Jr., assistant deputy chief of staff for Manpower, Personnel, and Services, U.S. Air Force, will deliver the annual Gochenour Lecture in WVU's Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering. The event is Thursday, April 12, at 3:30 p.m., in room 113 of the Mineral Resources Building. -
The J. Leland Taylor and Clara Virginia (Grosscurth) Taylor Memorial Scholarship Endowment has been created to assist students doing research in petroleum and natural gas engineering at WVU's Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources.
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Steven Koonin, Ph.D., former undersecretary of science with the U.S. Department of Energy, will deliver the 2012 Dow/Union Carbide Seminar Honoring Jean Cropley at West Virginia University on Friday, March 23, at 1:30 p.m.
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Marcello R. Napolitano, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at WVU, was named 2011 Professor of the Year by the Faculty Merit Foundation. The award was presented on March 13 during a banquet held in the Great Hall of the Culture Center in Charleston.