Engineering and Design
OSU and MidAmerica Industrial Park awarded $1M to strengthen economic resiliency in Oklahoma
The Oklahoma State University School of Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) and New Product Development Center (NPDC), together with the MidAmerica Industrial Park (MAIP), secured $1 million in CARES funding from the U.S. Economic Development Administration. The funding will be used to develop and implement programs to strengthen manufacturing disaster preparedness and economic resiliency. The two-year program will provide training and technical assistance for Oklahoma manufacturing and industry in the areas of disaster planning and preparedness, advanced manufacturing and automation innovation, and product development and diversification.
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The year 2020 hasn’t been ideal for most people, but for two electrical and computer engineering graduates, the year 2020 ended with something to celebrate.
The Oklahoma State University (OSU) chapter of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) was recently recognized for placing in the top three in their Student Recruitment category.
OSU’s Unmanned Systems Research Institute (USRI) and Boeing have formed a partnership that will fund a summer internship for a Native American high school student to work at USRI. USRI is led by Dr. Jamey Jacob who is a mechanical and aerospace engineering professor in the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology.
Dr. Ranji Vaidyanathan, the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology’s (CEAT) Varnadow Chair Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Oklahoma State University’s (OSU) Tulsa campus, has been elected to the rank of Fellow for the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
A NASA project, 20 years in the making, is getting closer and closer to completion thanks, in part, to research being done at Oklahoma State Univesity’s (OSU) Unmanned Systems Research Institute (USRI).
Oklahoma State University’s American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AlChE) Student Chapter was awarded the AlChE Outstanding Student Chapter for the 2019-2020 school year.