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Awards & Recognition • Mississippi State student engineering teams earn regional awards
• Adrienne Minerick awarded NSF CAREER Award
• Computer engineering major receives NSF fellowship
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Greetings!
Graduation is a little more than two weeks away and our seniors are studying, taking their last rounds of finals and preparing for their much awaited commencement ceremony. We are proud of our senior students; it is satisfying to see them reach their personal goal of earning a degree after years of hard work and dedication.
As their final semester comes to a close, seniors are realizing they have reached one of life’s milestones and their enthusiasm is building. While they are busily ordering their caps and gowns, frames for their diplomas, and sending graduation invitations to friends and loved ones, we are filled with pride and reflect on their years here with us and see extraordinary growth and achievement. Watching and being a part of this transformation is what gives our jobs a great sense of meaning and purpose.
Seeing our students move forward in life to the next level of personal excellence is one of the highest compliments a mentor or faculty member can receive. At the same time we feel a bit of sadness. For us it feels much like parents sending their children off to college for the first time, we’re happy for them, but we want them to know they are always welcome back home.
Congratulations to our graduating students and to their parents.
W. Glenn Steele
Acting Dean of Engineering
It has been 'March Madness' for 'IEEE REGION 3' champions
Could Ping be the next Michael Jordan?
Ping's basketball shooting percentage is around 98 percent from any position on the court. Not bad for a one-foot electronic robot that uses a digital camera to focus on the basketball hoop, which stands about three feet off the ground. For electrical and computer engineering students Ping has become sort of their hero. They spent 3,000 hours and countless weekends building the miniature-shooting robot that won them the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Southeast Region 3 (SECON) 2007 Competition. Click here to read more.
Yes, 'Dorothy,' math really does equate into our everyday lives
Keith Walters, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering has been awarded nearly a half-a-million dollars by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore innovative math algorithms (i.e. math problems) that will reduce errors in computer simulations-specifically computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations. It is an important research and development component for the business world. Industries such as automotive, healthcare, biomedical, chemical, and aerospace use computational fluid dynamic simulations to run virtual prototypes of new designs, without actually building them.
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University collaboration provides students "Eggstrordinary" education
A program called, "Mission Eggscellence" is an innovative way of using automotive design technology to teach Mississippi grade school students math and physics. Drs. Mark Horstemeyer and Donald Trotter of the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) at Mississippi State University designed the program. They created Mission Eggscellence to help make learning math and science fun for children in elementary school. Click here to read more.
Schilling Foundation funds much needed dam and levee research
Since recent natural disasters, such as when Hurricane Katrina caused the levee breach in New Orleans, the issue of sound dam and levee construction has become a forefront issue for the social, political and technological worlds and a necessary lesson within the classroom. The department of civil and environmental engineering at Mississippi State is conducting crucial new research to study the factors of dam and levee failure. The project is funded under a special teaching program of the Schilling Foundation and intended to give undergraduates an enhanced learning experience within the lab. Click here to read more.
Challenge X: MSU goes to San Diego
The first three years of Challenge X: Cross Over to Sustainable Mobility has been so successful in exploring clean efficient automotive technologies that General Motors and the U.S. Department of Energy-the sponsors of the program-have extended the research program for another year. Originally 60 universities submitted application to be part of this competitive program. MSU was among the 17 that were selected. Click here to read more.
