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North Dakota congressional leaders, national space experts celebrate the next leap in space initiatives at Grand Forks Air Force Base

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The ceremony to commemorate the U.S. Space Development Agency’s latest initiative in North Dakota is the most recent space-related development, and is the result of strong local partnerships Members of North Dakota’s congressional delegation visited Grand Forks Air Force Base on Tuesday, June 28, along with national space experts and UND President Andrew Armacost, for […]

UND engineering and geology students place first in U.S. Department of Energy geothermal competition

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A proposal by UND engineering students to use abandoned oil and gas wells to heat homes has taken first place in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Spring 2021 Geothermal Collegiate Competition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=wALBm2ni0aM&feature=youtu.be UND geology and geological engineering students, working with students at Reykjavik University in Iceland, researched the use of existing gas wells to generate […]

Retired UND civil engineering prof pens textbook on structural stability

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Sukhvarsh Jerath, UND professor emeritus of civil engineering, has written a graduate level textbook on structural engineering and structural mechanics. Jerath spent more than a decade penning Structural Stability Theory and Practice: Buckling of Columns, Beams, Plates, and Shells, which was published by John Wiley, a major engineering book publishers. It is written in both U.S. and […]

UND, Bismarck State College announce collaborative engineering bachelor’s degree

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Students will benefit from BSC’s strong pre-engineering program as well as UND’s 31-year history of distance education in engineering Bismarck State College (BSC) and the University of North Dakota (UND) have created a collaborative engineering program that will result in a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from UND, earned on the BSC campus. On […]