Media - Part 148
Career fair brings big opportunities to Bagley Students
STARKVILLE, Miss. – More than 100 recruiters visited Mississippi State University’s Starkville campus to recruit Bagley College of Engineering students to their companies’ ranks. Offering intern, co-op and full-time positions, these representatives from companies across the nation met with more than 1,200 students during the university’s annual Engineering and Technical Career Fair. Senior industrial engineering…
30-year U.S. Army Engineer District veteran named civil works program manager
Memphis, TN – Tom Minyard has joined Barge, Waggoner, Sumner and Cannon, Inc., as the civil works program manager. Prior to joining Barge Waggoner, Minyard served as Engineering and Construction (E&C) Division Chief for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USAED)-Memphis District. This 135-person employee base was led by Minyard to provide engineering analysis, designs,…
MSU teams receive EPA P3 grants
WASHINGTON (WTVA) – Two teams from Mississippi State are among 43 to receive grants to help attain a sustainable future.
Mississippi State in spotlight as Engineers Without Borders-USA receives award
STARKVILLE, Miss. – The Mississippi State chapter of Engineers Without Borders captured national attention when its parent organization earned an award for its humanitarian work across the globe. Engineers Without Borders-USA received the Engineering and Construction Contracting Association’s 2014 Spirit Award at a ceremony in Orlando, Florida. The presentation singled out the Mississippi State chapter…
Inaugural design competition introduces freshmen to engineering
STARKVILLE, Miss. – More than 80 Mississippi State freshmen kicked off their college careers as part of a new Bagley College of Engineering competition. The Engineering Freshman Experience (EFX) Design Competition was introduced by the BCoE as a part of the 2014 Dawg Daze, an annual event hosted by the MSU Student Association. Although geared…
Graduate student attends international laureate forum
STARKVILLE, Miss. – A doctoral candidate in the computer science and engineering department participated in an international mathematics and computer science laureate forum featuring academic leaders in the fields. Srishti Srivastava was selected to participate in the second annual Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany. She is one of the 200 applicants chosen from around the…
Marchant gift encourages females in cyber study
STARKVILLE, Miss. — Mississippi State University is working to generate more interest in the field of computer security for female students as a possible career path. Over the next few years, the university will implement a plan to increase the female population in engineering by collaborating with the National Science Foundation.
Student gains personal growth from studying abroad
STARKVILLE, Miss. – How many people can say they’ve been to two continents, six countries, and 27 cities in one summer? Emily Mealins, a junior double majoring in civil engineering and Spanish, was able to do just that and more during her summer abroad in Alcala de Henares, Spain. “I think, sometimes, we don’t realize…
Mississippi State student interns at genomic research institute
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Mississippi State senior Anna Florence was one of the standout applicants to be selected for the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology BioTrain internship program. Florence lives in Huntsville, Ala. but enjoys attending school in Starkville, Mississippi. “It’s a very neat community of people that are just nice and supportive of where you’re headed,”…
BCoE partners with Entergy to develop new software
STARKVILLE, Miss. – A team of Bagley College engineers helped develop computer software that saves time, money and energy for a national utility company. As part of its university research program, Entergy Corp. joined a team of Mississippi State students and researchers to develop the Relay Settings Automation (RSA) program. With this software, a process…