Understanding Emerging Technologies’ Economic and Societal Value Is Essential for Students Who Plan to Advance Into Leadership

In fall 2023, the Economics department collaborated with the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department to help create cross-disciplinary and integrated learning environments. Faculty in two respective departments collaborated to teach value-driven engineering design. Dr. Melody Lo, the John and Ruth Steinmeyer Memorial Endowed Chair of Economics, who believes that cross-disciplinary learning is the key to preparing students to become successful leaders, initiated this collaborative project. She also invited Missouri Cobalt's leadership team to engage our students in this collaboration, showing that innovations are more likely to be sustainable and transformational when the innovators can go beyond the technical aspect of an engineering project.
Read the news release here.

On April 18, 2023, Kummer College held its First Public Forum: The Silicon Valley Bank Collapse - Integrated Learning and Economic Resiliency. The presentation slides are available here. If you would like to continue the conversation, you can reach out to our panelists:

• Tim Faley, Interim Dean of the Kummer College, tfaley@mst.edu
• Melody Lo, Steinmeyer Memorial Endowed Chair of Economics, melodylo@mst.edu
• Ed Koharik, Solutions Engineer at C2FO, koharik97@gmail.com
  S&T graduate of 2019 / major in Economics with a minor in Computer Science
• Ben Tipton, President of Phelps County Bank, ben.tipton@mypcb.com
• Jon Rapp, Vice President of Phelps County Bank, rapp@mypcb.com
  S&T graduate of 2010 / major in Business and Management Systems with a minor in Economics