Mississippi State’s champion EcoCAR 2 team again is competing for the prized top title in year two of a challenge that puts students and their work through rigorous tests and rewards them with unparalleled hands-on automotive engineering experience. Titled “EcoCAR 2: Plugging In to the Future,” the three-year collegiate engineering competition is the only program…
A team of undergraduate aerospace engineering majors won the international 2013 IT FLIES Annual Aircraft and Handling USA Flight Simulation Competition. The first place finish earned the five-member team $1,000 and a year’s free membership in the Royal Aeronautical Society. Nine teams from the United States and the United Kingdom competed in the April 13…
A New York higher education administrator and faculty member is Mississippi State’s new engineering dean. The appointment of Achille Messac to lead the university’s James Worth Bagley College of Engineering is pending formal approval by the Board of Trustees, State Institutions of Higher Learning. He will be MSU’s first African American dean. At Syracuse University,…
Two Bagley College of Engineering robotics teams earned recognition from regional competitions in April. The six-member IEEE SoutheastCon (SECON) robotics team tied for fifth out of 56 teams at a regional competition in Jacksonville, Fla., April 6. The four-member MSU remotely operated vehicle (ROV) team earned Best Team Spirit and Best Engineering Selection awards at…
An industrial and systems engineering assistant professor received the first Bagley College of Engineering award for Excellence in Online Teaching. Lesley Strawderman formally accepted her award during the Faculty Excellence Dinner April 23. Strawderman teaches online classes as part of BCoE-Learning. The program is ranked 12th nationally by U.S. News and World Report, which evaluates…
Mississippi State University has made James C. Newman Jr. its recipient of the 2013 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award. The SEC Faculty Achievement Award program is designed to honor faculty from each of the conference’s 14 member-institutions for outstanding work in teaching and scholarship. The selected professors serve as role models for other faculty as…
An energy researcher, a computational modeling specialist and a robot programmer have earned the Bagley College of Engineering’s 2013 research awards. Pedro Mago, Mohsen Eshraghi and Ankit Singh Arya earned the faculty, graduate student and undergraduate student awards respectively. Mago is an associate professor and holds the TVA Professorship in Energy Systems and the Environment…
Three Bagley College of Engineering students have earned recognition for their contributes to Mississippi State and the Starkville community. The annual Spirit of State Awards honor students who have made a positive impact on their classmates and campus community. Recipients are nominated for the award by faculty, staff, or fellow students. This year’s BCoE honorees…
A chemical engineering associate professor earned recognition for a career of exemplary academic service. Rebecca Toghiani received this year’s Bagley College of Engineering Faculty Career Award at the Faculty Excellence Dinner, April 23. The career award is presented each year to a faculty member, with more than 15 years experience at Mississippi State, who has…
Four Bagley College of Engineering (BCoE) faculty members have become the newest members the college’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers. Amy Barton, Isaac Howard, Pedro Mago, and James Martin have been inducted into the college’s prestigious society. The four inductees were selected based on nomination letters written by students and colleagues. These letters highlighted the faculty…