Coming to America
Volleyball creates civil union
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The Bagley College of Engineering cares about students’ careers and about how they use their education to progress in the workplace. In this issue, we share stories of how students begin their careers; with the first time they encounter a recruiter at career day, to how students with an international address traveled more than 9,000 miles to have the opportunity to prepare for a career by studying engineering at Mississippi State.
These stories are examples of how the BCoE fosters a community of caring and support, even when it involves a career change from civil engineering to head volleyball coach at Mississippi State—Tina Seals tells her very inspiring story of family and support.
As the old saying goes, “Nothing is more constant than change,” and we share a story of how one alumnus worked his way up to Wall Street by having the vision to change and take risks. Doug Terreson’s success story reveals to us the importance of supporting a learning environment of growth and change and the independent, critical thinking needed to foster success.
Finally, we have another opportunity of celebration. We invite you to the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Building ribbon-cutting on Saturday morning, November 10. After this long awaited event concludes, we hope you enjoy a little tailgating at the Junction and cheer Mississippi State as they play Alabama at Scott Field.
Hope to see you here.
Sincerely;
Glenn Steele, Ph.D., P.E.
Interim Dean
James Worth Bagley College of Engineering
Career fair offers lessons
Whether they plan on graduating in December or May, this time of year causes students to begin considering their futures. Important decisions lay ahead and prospective graduates must work to ensure that they don’t get left out of the race into the professional world. For the proactive Bulldog there are several resources, including the MSU Career Center, available to help them start their post-graduate lives. The Career Center offers several ways for students to achieve success culminating in career fairs, which offer many lessons in addition to career opportunities. Click here to read more.
Coming to America
Many students travel from the other side of the world to fulfill their dreams of having a better life. More specifically, they come to the United States to study and graduate with a degree from an American university. For many the price is high in terms of dollars and in terms of friends and family support. For instance, three Bagley College of Engineering graduate students Shaheen Ahmed from Bangladesh, Anas Mahmoud from Jordan and Tuba Yilmaz from Turkey, left everything familiar to study industrial, electrical and computer science engineering here at Mississippi State. They left their home country for similar reasons. Click here to read more.
Engineering community forms civil union
Most people don’t use the word family lightly. Generally reserving it for that group of people who have known them the longest and often share their DNA, but occasionally someone can develop external families—groups of people who offer support or friendship when a typical family cannot. For MSU’s head volleyball coach and civil engineering alumna, Tina Seals, it took the support of both her traditional and non-traditional families to help her strike a balance in life and find a calling. Click here to read more.
Alumni Spotlight
More than 10 years ago this innovative and progressive Bagley College of Engineering graduate parlayed his love of petroleum engineering with his business sense for the stock market. Whether Doug Terreson realized it or not he was ahead of his time, because today universities are implementing a very similar and popular cross-discipline education program. The business industry values and calls it “Design Thinking,” the skill of marrying creative right brain thinking with analytical left brain thinking. Click here to read more.
