The Carlson Senior Mine Design Competition pushes West Virginia University mining engineering students to take everything they’ve learned in the classroom and apply it to a full-scale, real-world mine planning project.
In many workplaces, safety was once treated as an afterthought rather than the high priority that it is.
As Dr. Jeremy Gouzd, coordinator of the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University’s online Safety Management, M.S. programexplains, “Companies would often look at a tenured employee and say, ‘All right, you’re our safety guy. Congratulations!’”
On Sunday May 17, 2026 at the West Virginia University Hope Coliseum, the newest cohort of Statler alumni joined an elite group of innovators and leaders around the globe. The Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources awarded 419 undergrad and 67 graduate degrees to a new generation of engineers and computer scientists, celebrating their transition from the classroom to creating positive change in the world.
When the world’s largest live-fire cyber defense exercise began simulating attacks on power grids, communications systems and national infrastructure, WVU students were already at their keyboards, not as observers, but as part of the international team defending a nation in crisis.
For the first time, West Virginia University has four recipients of the Goldwater Scholarship, the nation’s premier undergraduate scholarship in mathematics, engineering and natural sciences that supports students with a strong commitment to research careers.