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International Student's Dream School:
Technology, Facilities and Research at Missouri S&T
Technology and Facilities
Excellent facilities attract fine researchers and teachers, and they provide the platform for your learning experience. Missouri S&T has the sophisticated laboratories and computing facilities expected at a premier technological university. Every amazing facility presents an opportunity - to study in a lounge or simply tinker in a lab.
In 2006, Forbes.com named Missouri S&T a top 25 "connected campus" and CIO Magazine named Missouri S&T to its CIO "Top 100" list. Top corporations know that our widespread wireless access, high speed internet, technology-enabled classrooms, Computer Learning Centers and state-of-the-art distance learning classrooms add value to every Missouri S&T student's degree program, regardless of major.
1. The Havener Student Center is the heart of the campus community and student activities at Missouri S&T.
2. The Experimental Mine is the only on-campus research mine in the country, if not the world.
3. You need look no farther than the atrium to appreciate the monument to civil engineering that is Butler-Carlton Hall.
4. The highlight of Toomey Hall is the Product Innovation and Creativity Center housing design facilities utilized by many student design teams.
5. This isn't your parents' college dorm room. The Residential College is our new suite-style residence hall with state-of-the-art amenities.
6. As a national powerhouse in student design teams, S&T's Student Design Center is one of the most active buildings on campus.
7. Completed in 1961, Missouri S&T had the first Nuclear Reactor in the state.
8. A partial reconstruction of the world's oldest calendar and "computer" is right in the heart of campus. Our half-scale Stonehenge serves as a reminder of human ingenuity.
9. Open 112 hours a week, the Curtis Laws Wilson Library links students and technology.
10. One of the few on-campus facilities in the world, the Foundry is a state-of-the-art laboratory for metallurgical research. And if you're lucky, the foundry has been known to occasionally cast Missouri S&T paper weights for campus visitors.
Undergraduate Research
Missouri S&T believes that undergraduate research is an essential opportunity that should be open to everyone, not just scholars or graduate students. Research is more than gathering data, analyzing trends or formulating new ideas, it is an experience. Faculty bring their experience with them into the classroom every day and invite students to join them in their labs as they generate $37 million of sponsored research each year.
Each year, 150 students build their experience through the OURE program. Through OURE, the campus funds individual undergrad research programs to the tune of $750. Participants work with a faculty mentor on a project of their design.
How in-depth are we talking? Many students find their names appearing in published papers or receive patents for their work. Each spring, campus welcomes the Undergraduate Research Conference where students showcase their research projects and compete for prizes in a variety of categories.
How deeply you delve into the world of research is entirely up to you. Some students are involved in projects throughout their time at Missouri S&T. Some commit to a semester or two while others opt to do no research at all. Just know, if you are open to the idea, you will find research opportunities in virtually any academic endeavor. Some projects even offer credit or financial stipends.
Of course, this idea of research isn't limited to individual projects. Some student organizations, such as Miners in Space, work as teams on research projects. Through MIS, student conduct research in tandem with NASA aboard the agency's famous KC-135 "Weightless Wonder." As one of only 20 projects selected by NASA, students recently conducted welding experiments in microgravity.
