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She’s an engineer who focuses on renewable energy sources. She’s a business wiz with a zest for finance and management. And she’s an aficionado of all things pickled.

As part of Engineers Week 2023, the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources will host its first Pinewood Derby contest in partnership with Boy Scouts of America and the Lane Innovation Hub. 

Recently published research by West Virginia University engineers marks a big step forward in improving durability and performance of the solid oxide fuel cells that power plants can use to generate electricity.

Seventy-two West Virginia University students representing the Morgantown and Beckley campuses have been invited to participate in Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol from 8:30 to 11 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 10, in Charleston.

Two students from the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, have been selected for the 2023 West Virginia Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellows Program, which is part of West Virginia University’s Bridge Initiative for Science and Technology Policy, Leadership, and Communications. 

A new report by the National Science Foundation ranked the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources in the top 23 percent of engineering programs in the United States, coming in at 94 among 413 institutions.  

Moriah Katt’s artificial model of the blood-brain barrier’s cells and vessels is like an ant farm. A working replica of the vascular system separating the brain from the body, Katt’s model allows her to see and manipulate the inner processes of that almost impermeable membrane.

Margaret Bennewitz doesn’t like unanswered questions––certainly not those of people worried about whether or not they have breast cancer.

In the summer of 2022, Amirah Mitchell started working on developing an artificial intelligence program that would understand human emotion, using deep learning approach. This was after she was given the opportunity to be a part of WVU’s Summer Undergraduate Research Experience. The biomedical engineering undergraduate researcher used the opportunity to start her project on how the technology could predict the emotional state of humans, whether happy, sad, angry, etc.