With $1 million in NASA funding, West Virginia University is preparing its undergraduates and students across West Virginia to build the robots that will build the future.
For fiscal year 2024, West Virginia University crushed its record in externally supported research expenditures with $275 million — an 82% increase from five years ago.
Launching a satellite into space takes a lot of planning. From development to operations to Federal Communications Commission regulations, successful missions go through extensive design and test phases before anything leaves the ground. Mechanical and aerospace engineering students Isabella Hart, Sam Blair and Evie Harper got hands-on experience this summer through the University Nanosatellite Program in New Mexico, a collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory and NASA.
Researchers at West Virginia University are making strides once again in robotics, one of the fastest-growing disciplines in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources.
The Alumni Who Inspire! Program in the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources recognizes alumni for their dedication to their professions, our college and West Virginia University. The program was launched in Fall 2023 as a monthly discussion board with alumni of the College.
Reigning champions Team Mountaineers represented the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources and West Virginia University this past weekend, placing second in the 2024 University Rover Challenge (URC) finals held at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah.