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The online software engineering graduate program at West Virginia University has been recognized as the 28th Best Online Program by U.S. News and World Report. 

Ali Baheri and Piyush Mehta, professors in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at West Virginia University, have received a $100,000 grant from NASA EPSCoR Rapid Response Research (R3) program to explore the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques for onboard fault diagnosis of spacecraft.

The space economy is on track to be valued at a trillion dollars by the end of 2030, according to Piyush Mehta, Wayne and Kathy Richards Faculty Fellow and assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at West Virginia University. Yet space assets – equipment that is placed in space such as navigation, weather and communication satellites that serve our society daily – are threatened by space debris. 

Despite efforts to promote recycling and reuse of plastic materials, the plastic problem continues to be a global problem. West Virginia University engineers hope to debottleneck the remaining challenges for recycling of single-use plastic packaging by upcycling them into petrochemicals.

A West Virginia University graduate student has been awarded the University Transportation Centers Annual Outstanding Student of the Year for research in collecting and harvesting traffic and pavement data to find intelligent solutions for sustainable transportation infrastructure management.

A new report by the National Science Foundation ranked the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources 87th in research expenditures among 411 engineering programs surveyed.

Jason Gross, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and associate chair for research in the Statler College of Engineering Mineral Resources at West Virginia University, has been named interim chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, effective January 1, 2022.