Media - Part 158
Two BCoE employees earn MSU Diversity Awards
STARKVILLE, Miss. – Representatives of the Bagley College of Engineering earned two of four awards presented at the university’s annual diversity award program Friday. Rani Sullivan, an associate professor of aerospace engineering, and Angela C. Verdell, director of diversity programs and student development, were presented the 2013 faculty and staff awards, respectively. The awards program…
Zhang named to national research board task force
STARKVILLE, Miss. – A Bagley College of Engineering faculty member has been appointed to a national task force for emergency preparedness. Li Zhang, an associate professor in civil engineering, will serve a nearly three-year term on the task force for emergency evacuations of the Transportation Research Board, a division of the National Research Council. The…
MSU employees ‘stand up’ to sitting at work
Attention, people who sit eight hours a day, five days a week at a desk job: There is another way. For those who’d rather not sit for at least part of the workday, a standing desk workstation may be a good — and healthier — alternative. Enough people must think so, since this stand-up alternative…
Robot inquisition keeps witnesses on the right track
MEMORY is a strange thing. Just using the verb “smash” in a question about a car crash instead of “bump” or “hit” causes witnesses to remember higher speeds and more serious damage. Known as the misinformation effect, it is a serious problem for police trying to gather accurate accounts of a potential crime. There’s a…
Gilbert to serve as interim during dean of engineering search
STARKVILLE, Miss. – Mississippi State University’s provost and executive vice president will serve as interim leader of the Bagley College of Engineering during a national search for its next dean. Jerome A. Gilbert will assume the responsibilities of interim dean in late February. He will serve in this position as the university conducts a nationwide…
Newman earns lifetime achievement, Fellow recognition from national organizations
STARKVILLE, Miss. – Recognizing his work in fatigue and fracture research, two national organizations honor a Bagley College of Engineering professor’s nearly 50-year career. James C. Newman Jr., the Richard H. Johnson chair of aerospace engineering, received the Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2012 International Conference on Fatigue Damage of…
Horstemeyer to be honored by two national organizations
STARKVILLE, Miss. –The spring semester will be twice as nice for one Bagley College of Engineering professor as two national organizations grant him elite status. Mark F. Horstemeyer, a chair professor in mechanical and computation engineering, will join Mississippi State colleague James C. Newman, aerospace, in being recognized as a Fellow of the American Association…
Bagley online programs ranked 12th by U.S. News and World Report
STARKVILLE, Miss. – The Bagley College of Engineering is in the top fourth of online graduate programs nationally according to U.S. News and World Report rankings released Tuesday. In its first time providing overall rankings for online degree-granting engineering programs, the website lists the Bagley College as 12th among the 50 graduate schools rated. The…
Nontraditional life leads alumnus to start a tradition of giving
At 28 years old, Fredrick Hamilton stood apart from his peers at orientation. A husband, father and veteran of the railroad industry, he had seen first-hand what the real world was like and knew exactly what he needed to do to succeed in it. “Like a lot of people from my generation, I thought I…
Srishti named outstanding female graduate student
Each year an anonymous donor funds a scholarship to recognize an outstanding female graduate student in the CSE department. This year’s winner is Srishti Srivastava. Srishti completed her B.Tech. degree in Computer Science from Uttar Pradesh Technical University in India and was awarded a MS degree in computer science from MSU in 2010. She is…