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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.  

Brook Woldegabriel, a graduate research assistant for the Wadsworth Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, has been selected for the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program. 

The waste flushed down toilets could be a valuable source of resources and profits — and easier on the environment, according to a West Virginia University engineer’s research.

West Virginia University faculty and staff carry out research in a wide range of fields that are important in today’s world.

For technical degrees like engineering and computer science, lectures and tests are customary in the classroom. The Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources is flipping the script on traditional learning practices by offering a new experiential learning course for engineering students.  

Pedro Mago, Glen H. Hiner Dean of the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University, and the Statler College Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, announced the recipients of the College’s Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award. The awards were distributed to the recipients in conjunction with WVU’s annual Diversity Week celebration. 

Kevin Orner, assistant professor of Civil and environmental engineering at West Virginia University, has been named the Maurice and JoAnn Wadsworth Faculty Fellow in the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources.

Alarmed about rising levels of nitrogen and phosphorus in America’s water, the Environmental Protection Agency has invested $1 million in West Virginia University assistant professor Kevin Orner’s wastewater treatment research.