Media - Part 162
Rais-Rohani named interim associate dean of engineering
A Mississippi State alumnus with more than 20 years of faculty experience will assume the role of interim associate dean for research and graduate studies in the Bagley College of Engineering (BCoE). Masoud Rais-Rohani, a professor in aerospace engineering, transitions into the role July 16. He replaces Lori M. Bruce who was recently named dean…
Bulldog network keeps Maroon on alumnus’ mind
The son of a football coach, Tommy Nusz called many places home during his formative years: Texas, Michigan and Virginia just to name a few. But it was the years spent in Starkville, while his dad served as an assistant under Mississippi State coach Charley Shira, that made a lasting impression. “We were in Texas…
MSU’s EcoCAR 2 team shows Bulldog ‘can-do spirit’ at competition
Mississippi State’s EcoCAR 2 team is bringing home several awards from year two of a highly competitive three-year advanced automotive engineering challenge. The year one champion team suffered a set-back this week when an internal mechanical breakdown led the team to drop the entire drive train out of their vehicle to repair the damage. By…
MSU’s EcoCAR 2 team returns to automotive engineering competition
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…
MSU team wins IT FLIES competition
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…
MSU hires Syracuse’s Messac as Bagley College of Engineering dean
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,…
Bagley robotics teams impress at regional competitions
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…
Strawderman earns first Bagley College online education award
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…
Newman earns 2013 SEC Faculty Achievement Award
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…
Mago, Eshraghi, Arya earn 2013 Bagley College research awards
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…