Formula One: Learning on the ‘fast track’
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Nash Street
Walk up to any newsstand on country music row in Nashville and you will see headlines that read “Nash Street named ‘THE BEST NEW ACT IN COUNTRY MUSIC.’” The upbeat blue grass/country band is made-up of Mississippi State students. Daniel Hare, an aerospace engineering major and the lead bass player tells the story of their experience playing at the Ryman Auditorium, home of the Grand Ole Opry, and how this small town band is making it big in the genre of country music.
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Greetings!
I hope that each of you had a nice spring break. My wife and I ventured over to Georgia to watch the SEC basketball tournament in Atlanta. With MSU on the Dome floor against Alabama in overtime and with the excitement of the game in full swing, Atlanta's downtown was struck by a tornado. We were lucky that during this experience no one was hurt in our family, both mine and the other Bulldogs in the Georgia Dome. The game was delayed while fans took cover from the unexpected weather, but then the MSU team came back onto the court an hour later with renewed focus and determination to beat Alabama 69-67. Go Dawgs!
Unexpected things happened on the basketball court as well as in everyday university life. Dr. Robert. H. "Doc" Foglesong announced on March 7 his plans to resign as MSU's president. The Mississippi IHL board appointed Dr. Vance H. Watson to serve as interim president to lead the university forward. I would like to wish Dr. Foglesong the best and also congratulate Dr. Watson on being recognized to guide the university during this time of transition.
Within our own college, the BCoE's development director Ryan Little has taken another opportunity that has led him to Florida. Just as sports are competitive, the job market is too and while we will miss Ryan, we also wish him and his family the very best. Since Ryan's departure, someone already familiar with the development scene and MSU has been selected. Bennett Evans has joined the BCoE team as our new development director and is coming to us from the College of Architecture, Art and Design. Below, you will find that he has included a note about coming to the BCoE. We are glad to have him on board, and I know he is looking forward to meeting and working with our alumni while continuing to help the BCoE on its road to excellence in engineering.
Best regards,
Glenn, Ph.D., P.E.
Interim Dean
James Worth Bagley College of Engineering
Hello from the Development Office!
I am very excited about this opportunity to serve as your new director of development for the Bagley College of Engineering. I look forward to meeting and working with all the alumni and friends of the Bagley College who have made this the state's premier academic unit for engineering education. I also look forward to meeting and working with a great team of faculty and staff that makes the whole education process happen. As the development director, I will help to ensure that this success continues well into the future. Thank you for your continued support, and please let me know if there is anything I can do for you.
Respectfully,
Bennett Evans
Development Director
James Worth Bagley College of Engineering
From biplanes to brushes, lab director expresses creativity through new medium
Engineers operate with a certain level of creativity. Expressed through their ability to see beyond the obvious and approach problems in a new manner, this side of their personalities feeds their ingenuity and leads to inventive solutions. Often, this desire to create also leads engineers to venture out of the structured creativity of engineering in order to find a more free form of expression. For Dr. David Lawrence, director of the Raspet Flight Lab, this alternate avenue of expressiveness comes in the form of brush strokes and sculpture.
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Formula One: Learning on the ‘fast track’
They are getting their motor running, heading out on the highway, looking for adventure, and they’re ready for whatever comes their way. The first line of the popular Steppenwolf song describes what mechanical engineering students might feel when they enter their custom designed race car into competition at the Virginia International Raceway next month. Student members of the Mississippi State Motor Sports team have been spending their free-time this past year designing, building, and test driving their own formula-one race car. They have worked countless, volunteer hours creating the formula-style race car for the annual Society of Automotive Engineers International (SAE) race. Team captain Jonathan Rudd said the international competition offers three competitive tracks: Baja, snowmobile and formal. The latter is the BCoE SAE team's course. Click here to read more.
Students expand minds for intercollegiate competition
Even with their minds filled to the rim with formulas and equations, some engineering students have found a way to maintain their outside interests. As part of MSU Quiz Bowl, one of the university’s newest competitive teams, these students are reaping the benefits of staying well versed in a variety of subjects.
“Quiz Bowl competitions challenge students to retain knowledge from many subjects including those not in their major,” explained Paul Kimbrough, a biological engineering major and team co-founder. “Once students get past the survey classes of their undergraduate years and are completely immersed in classes within their major, it becomes easy to lose touch with other subject areas. These competitions encourage us to keep our diversified interests.”
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Alumni Spotlight
Chester Moulder is no stranger to hard work. The Hattiesburg native’s work ethic was ingrained at the young age of 6 when he began selling newspapers to help his family earn a few extra dollars during the depression. Moulder worked for seven years selling and delivering the noon and three o'clock editions until a family friend told him about an electrical contract entrepreneur who was looking for some help.
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