High school students compete at a regional VEX Robotics Competition in Hesston in November. The state-qualifying VEX event will be held at ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú on Feb. 23, along with the state VEX IQ Challenge, an event for younger children.

Feb 21, 2018 — By ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú News Services — Wichita State College of Engineering has a nearly 20-year history of sponsoring robotics competitions, making a tradition of its annual Shocker MINDSTORMS and Kansas BEST competitions. This year, it's hosting two new competitions in a single event that organizers say may the largest of its kind in state history.

Members of the Bastian family and their family-owned Fidelity Bank have contributed $1 million to ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú to help build a new home for the W. Frank Barton School of Business. From left are Clark Bastian, Aaron Bastian and Clay Bastian.

Feb 21, 2018 — By ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú News Services — In a gift representing their largest philanthropic contribution ever to a single entity, members of the Bastian family have donated $1 million to ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú to support a fundraising campaign to build a new home for the W. Frank Barton School of Business.

Feb 15, 2018 — By ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú News Services — The Shocker New Venture Competition, hosted by the Center for Entrepreneurship, inspires college students from all universities and colleges in Kansas to put entrepreneurial principles into practice.

ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú President John Bardo

Feb 14, 2018 — By ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú News Services — ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú President John Bardo spoke today (Thursday, Feb. 15) at the U.S. House of Representatives, where he provided testimony to the committee on Science, Space and Technology.

ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú College of Engineering awards $28,000 each to twelve Wallace Scholarship recipients

Feb 9, 2018 — By ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú News Services — Wichita State's College of Engineering has named its newest class of Wallace Scholars.

Feb 2, 2018 — By ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú News Services — Wichita State will be home to the National Intercollegiate Wheelchair Basketball Tournament in 2020. The American Collegiate Society for Adapted Athletics (ACSAA) will host the tournament from March 18-21 in the Heskett Center.

Tate Watts is the latest recipient of the $48,000 Barton Scholarship to attend ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú.

Jan 30, 2018 — By ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú News Services — Tate Watts, a senior at Westmoore High School in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has won the 2018 ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú Clay Barton Scholarship.

Wichita State student scholars and faculty attendees/presenters at the 16th Annual K-INBRE Symposium, January 13-14, in Overland Park, Kansas.

Jan 30, 2018 — By ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú News Services — A paper outlining the unique collaboration of 10 higher education institutions in Kansas and northern Oklahoma, including ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú, was published in the latest issue of Advances in Physiology Education, a professional journal of the American Physiological Society dedicated to the advancement of physiological research.

Zane Storlie, ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú sophomore computer science major.

Jan 30, 2018 — By ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú News Services — ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú College of Engineering is partnering with several Wichita elementary schools on an effort to teach 300 children to code in Scratch, a coding platform developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The effort will culminate with a Scratch-a-Thon to be held April 28 in the Experiential Engineering Building.

Jan 26, 2018 — By ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú News Services — Under a new partnership agreement signed in December, students at ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú Tech (formerly known as Wichita Area Technical College) can now transfer to the ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú College of Engineering and complete a bachelor’s degree in mechatronics engineering technology or engineering technology management with two additional years of study.