Praveen Majjigapu, a doctoral student in civil engineering at West Virginia University, has been named inaugural national chair for the Structural Engineering Institute Graduate Student Chapter Leadership Council. The council represents SEI Graduate Student Chapters at universities across the United States.
West Virginia Secretary of Commerce H. Wood “Woody” Thrasher, a 1977 graduate of West Virginia University, will be the speaker for the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources 2017 Commencement. The ceremony will take place on Saturday, May 13, at 1 p.m., at the WVU Coliseum.
The first-ever graduates of WVU’s biomedical engineering program will present their senior design projects at an open house on Wednesday, April 26, from 3-5 p.m. The presentations will be held in G120 of the Advanced Engineering Research Building on WVU’s Evansdale Campus.
Teams featuring seven engineering students from West Virginia University captured the top three places in the Third Annual Target Case Study Competition. Sponsored by the Target Corporation and hosted by WVU’s Career Services Center , the competition challenges teams of students in all majors to use their problem-solving skills to provide well-rounded solutions to a business problem.