A team of West Virginia University mining engineering students have once again secured first place in the national Senior Student Design Award competition for their comprehensive underground mine design plan.
Each year, NACADA, the global association for higher education academic advising, honors individuals and institutions making strides to improve student success programming.
Raafay Uqaily, a 2023 graduate of the West Virginia University Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, has made history as the first WVU student to receive the prestigious Tau Beta Pi Laureate Award.
As industrial systems and their technologies advance, the necessary workforce development to keep U.S. manufacturing ahead of the curve remains a pressing issue. JuHyeong Ryu, assistant professor in the Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Department at West Virginia University is pioneering new ways to implement wearable technologies to address these skills gaps.
Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering Professor and Chair Jason Gross has been awarded the Per Enge Early Achievement Award by the The Institute of Navigation (ION). ION is the world’s foremost nonprofit professional society advancing the art and science of positioning, navigation and timing (PNT).
For our Alumni Who Inspire series this month, we connected with Virginia ‘Ginny’ Thrasher, who won the first gold medal awarded at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the women's 10-meter air rifle.
Elementary students, pedestrians and drivers of Bridgeport are safer than ever thanks to redesign recommendations from eight civil and environmental engineering students at West Virginia University’s Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources.
The Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University continues to demonstrate its unwavering commitment to innovation, achieving a record high of $52.2 million in total research expenditures for the 2023 fiscal year. As a result, all engineering programs reached the top 100 rankings in the latest National Science Foundation Higher Education Research and Development Survey.
The Alumni Who Inspire! Program recognizes alumni for their dedication to their professions, the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources and West Virginia University. The program was launched in Fall 2023 as a monthly discussion board with Statler alumni.
To keep miners safe, a West Virginia University researcher is creating a training program that uses augmented reality headsets to prepare workers to operate around high-risk vehicles.