A team of 38 undergraduate aerospace engineering students at West Virginia University were selected to tackle moon and Mars exploration challenges by advancing to the final phase of NASA's Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition.
Barrios Technology Vice President of Commercial Spaceflight Kerri Knotts, a 1994 graduate of West Virginia University, will be the speaker for the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources 2022 Commencement Ceremony. The ceremony will take place on Saturday, May 14, at 4 p.m. at the WVU Coliseum.
Following four years of implementing energy efficient technologies and placing amongst top performing universities each year as part of the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge, the West Virginia University EcoCAR team has been selected to participate in a new four-year competition that will test students’ ability to engineer a next generation battery electric vehicle.
After eight months of developing designs, building crucial components, and spending hundreds of hours testing their Mars rover, the West Virginia University Mountaineer Robotics team was selected to advance to the final round of the University Rover Challenge 2022 (URC).
Harnessing creativity and determination while classrooms and extracurricular activities were upended by the pandemic, the newest cohort of Bucklew Scholars has forged new paths to begin a journey at West Virginia University focused on discovery and finding creative solutions to the issues that have commanded the attention of its generation.
A West Virginia University engineer is collaborating with an international team of engineers, surgeons and medical researchers to study a new hearing treatment to restore more natural hearing for individuals who are deaf or severely hard-of hearing.
The campaign for
West Virginia University
Student Government Association ended Wednesday evening (March 9) as the
SGA Judicial Court certified Chloe Hernandez and Pareera Uqaily as president and
vice president, respectively, for the 2022-23 academic year. The pair represents
the first female-minority ticket to win an SGA presidential election.
In celebration of Black History Month, the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University is honoring students, alumni and faculty from diverse backgrounds to showcase their successes in engineering and beyond and share how they continue to make a difference in society.