Media - Part 186
BCoE Appoints New Director of Development
Ryan Little has been appointed as the new Director of Development for the Bagley College of Engineering as of August 31, 2006. Little is not new to the department as he has been a member of the BCoE staff for approximately 18 months as the Assistant Director of Development under former Director, Blake Hudson. “During…
CoE Undergraduate Coordinator is in Command
Undergraduate Coordinator, Robert Green, was recognized Friday, September 1, 2006 for his outstanding service within the U.S. Naval Reserve. Green received a promotion from Lt. Commander to Commander within his naval reserve unit. Green serves within the Bagley College of Engineering as part of the dean’s senior staff as well as assisting engineering majors and…
HPC2 holds grand opening of additional space
STARKVILLE – Mississippi State University officials, U.S. Rep. Chip Pickering and Gov. Haley Barbour celebrated the grand opening of a 28,000-square-foot addition to the High Performance Computing Collabortory. The additional space in the facility makes room for a new supercomputer, called Raptor, a $1.3 million machine able to make 10.6 trillion calculations per second. The…
ADVISORY: HPC2 Building Addition Grand Opening
August 31, 2006 • 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Come and celebrate the opening of the new addition at the High Performance Computing Collaboratory Building with Dr. David Shaw, Dean Kirk Schulz, President Foglesong, Congressman Chip Pickering, and Governor Haley Barbour. A reception and tours will follow immediately after the ribbon cutting.
ANNOUNCEMENT: BCoE associate professor is re-appointed to international committee.
Bagley College of Engineering Associate Professor of civil and environmental engineering, Harry A. Cole, has been appointed to a second, two-year term as a committee member for the American Institute of Steel Construction Inc. Cole was re-appointed to the institute’s Committee on Manuals and Textbooks. The committee is in charge of setting codes and standards…
BCoE doctoral student recognized internationally as IEEE paper contest winner
STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State doctoral student in electrical and computer engineering is receiving international recognition from the world’s leading professional, nonprofit organization in the field. Sarika Khushalani, a native of Nagpur City, India, won first place among some 200 entries in the recent student paper competition of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. She…
Civil Engineering’s ASCE chapter earns national recognition for service and excellence
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Mississippi State’s student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers is nationally ranked for overall excellence and has been cited for its service in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The university chapter won the Zone II Vice President’s Award, placing it among the ASCE’s top five chapters in the nation. The national professional…
ANNOUNCEMENT: Engineering Abroad
Nine engineering students from Mississippi State are set for departure to Bristol, England for a six-week study abroad program. The students will be accompanied by MSU faculty advisor, Dr. George Adebiyi, along with students from Clemson University. The Fred and Sara Jean Burke Study Abroad Program includes the students taking classes at the University of…
Raspet’s Lawrence new international test pilots society fellow
STARKVILLE, Miss.–David L. Lawrence, director of Mississippi State’s Raspet Flight Research Laboratory, is a new Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots. An MSU aerospace research professor whose earlier career in the industry spanned more than 35 years, Lawrence becomes part of an elite group of only 150 SETP Fellows worldwide. The society works…
Report: Coast rebuilding in ‘jeopardy’ without stronger codes
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Residences and other structures being replaced along the storm-shattered Mississippi Gulf Coast without regard for strengthened building codes are in “jeopardy” during this and future hurricane seasons, according to a new report. “Structurally, buildings should be designed for both storm surge and wind,” a team of Mississippi State civil engineers found in their recently…