On Saturday, April 23, collegiate teams from across the United States will travel to Morgantown to compete in the inaugural Mountaineer Collegiate UAV Fly-off Competition atWest Virginia University. The day-long student contest of radio-controlled unmanned aircraft, which begins at 8 a.m., will be held at WVU’s Jackson’s Mill Facility, outside of Clarksburg.
Ordel Brown, teaching assistant professor in theFundamentals of Engineering ProgramatWest Virginia University, is the recipient of the National Academic Advising Association’s Region 3 Award for excellence in advising.
A team of students fromWest Virginia Universityhave qualified for the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, scheduled for March 31-April 2.
One of the America’s leading aerospace manufacturing companies is joining forces with West Virginia University, one of the country’s leading public research universities, to offeronline graduate degreesin five niche disciplines that match the company’s needs.
On Saturday, April 2, student mine rescue teams from three universities will join their counterparts fromWest Virginia Universityfor a competition to be held theAcademy for Mine Training and Energy Technologiesin Core.
Researchers atWest Virginia Universityhave partnered on a nearly $1 million grant from the United States Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory on the development of a mobile plant facility for the recovery of rare elements that could breathe life back into West Virginia’s coal industry.
Christopher Vass, a mining engineering master’s student at West Virginia University, has received the James and Betty Hall Doctoral Fellowship to continue his education and research.
It’s safe to say that no West Virginia University sports team favors a particular major quite like the 18-time NCAA Championship Rifle team.
Programmatic changes in two areas have led to name changes for two departments in West Virginia University’s Statler College of Engineering in Mineral Resources .
The 273-mile-long Illinois River is a primary tributary of the Mississippi River and part of an important waterway connecting the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River. Barges transporting goods ranging from grain to oil traverse the waterway thanks in large part to several locks and dams managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). In August, GFRP wicket gates were installed on one of those navigational structures – the Peoria Lock & Dam on the Illinois River at Creve Coeur, Ill.