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Comments on: 15 important innovations of 2015 https://news.mst.edu/2015/12/15-important-innovations-of-2015/ Your source for the latest from Rolla Sat, 26 Dec 2015 16:31:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.7 By: R WATSON EE62 https://news.mst.edu/2015/12/15-important-innovations-of-2015/#comment-67669 Sat, 26 Dec 2015 16:31:36 +0000 https://news.mst.edu/?p=15058#comment-67669 in the 50/60’s we knew that computers would be big. Dean Wilson and PAPA DOC NAU started a group/club of guys interested in computers. They got us an ATT data base box. we put the football teams results on it. It worked OK! They got a FT L WOOD fire control computer. We tried it on calculus problems. It work OK! We tried to make a superconductivity memory with liquid helium. It worked just OK! We were just OK! Which was OK! We tried to win big. We learned from it. TRY ON! WIN THE FUTURE! CHANGE the WORLD and LIFE. WIN!

]]> By: Wick Doll https://news.mst.edu/2015/12/15-important-innovations-of-2015/#comment-67596 Thu, 24 Dec 2015 01:54:17 +0000 https://news.mst.edu/?p=15058#comment-67596 I am very proud of the 15 innovation items mentioned above done at Missouri S&T. However, I agree with Katrina that while the professors are mentioned, any students working on these projects get no direct recognition.
After having visited Rolla last summer and witnessed the awesome student led projects such as the Mars rover, the human powered bicycle, the solar car, the solar house, and the Chemical Engineering car, I am very proud of the work the students do. I wish that 50 years ago, I would have had some of the opportunities to work on real projects and solve real-life problems. In today’s world it is critical that students get practical experience while they are still in college.

]]> By: Katrina https://news.mst.edu/2015/12/15-important-innovations-of-2015/#comment-67555 Tue, 22 Dec 2015 01:04:48 +0000 https://news.mst.edu/?p=15058#comment-67555 This is absolutely awesome and I’m happy to be a part of this University and the research being done here. I do wish that the students who do the work for this research got more credit though. Professor names are in all of these, but the students are just sometimes referred to as “a team”. It kinda feels like “These professors did this awesome stuff, and these students helped.” That’s frustrating.

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