All Stories

Researchers at West Virginia University are resurrecting discarded electronics, recycling electronic waste and recovering minerals from it to make new products critical for national defense.

Excellence in leadership development is a core value of the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University. In order to foster and sustain leadership excellence, the Statler College has announced the selection of three professors to the Dean’s Leadership Fellows Program.

Jason Gross, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the Statler College of Engineering Mineral Resources at West Virginia University, has been named chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. His appointment will begin October 2, 2022.

With the transition to centralized student advising in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources complete, students are able to access primary-role academic advisors 12 months out of the year from the Statler College Advising Center so the College can continue to support student success.

The Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources is proud to congratulate Jose J. Colon-Rodriguez, a mechanical and aerospace engineering graduate student and graduate research assistant from Puerto Rico, for receiving the Most Promising Scientist or Engineer Award from the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC).

For as long as robots have existed, the fear of machines ousting humans for their jobs has widely persisted.

West Virginia is now on its way toward launching the state’s second small satellite. A team from West Virginia University and the NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium is poised to turn that achievement into a massive boost for the aerospace industry statewide by taking the first steps toward opening the West Virginia Small Satellite Center of Excellence.

Scientists at West Virginia University have developed a way for extraplanetary rovers to use nonvisual information to maneuver over treacherous terrain. This research aims to prevent losses like that of the Martian exploration rover Spirit, which ceased communications after its wheels became trapped in invisibly shifting sands in 2010. 

Among a group of 1,300 participants from 100 college and university teams globally, WVU Experimental Rocketry Club earned multiple awards in the 2022 Spaceport America Cup in June.

A cutting-edge flight simulator donated by a West Virginia University alumnus is enhancing aerospace engineering education and research at the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources.