Media - Part 189
Computer security majors earn scholarships
Nearly a dozen Mississippi State students pursuing careers in computer security are receiving full nationally competitive scholarships for the 2006-07 academic year. Offered through the university’s Center for Computer Security Research, the Cyber Corps Scholarship Program provides annual stipends ranging $10,000-$15,000 over nine-month periods to selected undergraduates and graduate students. The awards include the U.S….
Rajala will head ECE department
STARKVILLE, Miss.–A longtime administrator at North Carolina State University will succeed retiring James C. Harden as head of the electrical and computer engineering department at Mississippi State later in the year. Sarah Rajala, a professor and associate dean of N.C. State’s College of Engineering, will also become holder of the university’s James W. Bagley Endowed…
Horstemeyer new fellow of national society
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Mississippi State mechanical engineering professor Mark F. Horstemeyer is a newly appointed fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Recognizing his significant achievements in the field, the designation brings to 16 the number of faculty members within the university’s Bagley College of Engineering who are fellows in their respective professional societies. “I am…
Students receive ASQ Black Belt certification
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Two Mississippi State master’s-degree students and two university graduates are newly certified as American Society for Quality Six Sigma Black Belts. The students, who majored in industrial and systems engineering, include (by hometown): CALHOUN CITY–Keith Stegall, a 2004 graduate now pursuing a master’s in business administration; GREENWOOD–December graduate Christina L. Smith; and STARKVILLE–Chandrashekar K….
Engineering professors publish new textbooks
Members of Mississippi State’s Bagley College of Engineering with new textbooks include Ray Vaughn, co-author of “Enterprise Information Systems Assurance and System Security: Managerial and Technical Issues” (Idea Group Pub.); Pat Fitzpatrick, author of “Hurricanes: A Reference Handbook, Second Edition” (ABC-CLIO Inc.); and Rand German, who wrote “AZ of Powder Metallurgy” (Elsevier Advanced Technology). Vaughn…
Roger King receives MSU’s first Trotter Leadership Award
Mississippi State professor and administrator Roger L. King is the first recipient of the J. Donald Trotter Leadership Award for distinguished service in electrical and computer engineering. Associate dean for graduate studies and research in the university’s Bagley College of Engineering, King was chosen by a vote of tenure-track colleagues in the department of electrical…
MSU engineering student honored by international society
A Mississippi State graduate student in industrial and systems engineering is the winner of an international professional society’s 2006 Student Award for Excellence. Kandace C. Noah of Houston, Texas, who is working on a master’s degree in the university’s Bagley College of Engineering, will receive the award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers during the…
‘Generous’ donation by MSU alumnus funds honors college
A $10 million gift by a 1972 Mississippi State graduate and his wife will endow an honors college at the university. The endowment by Bobby and Judy Shackouls of Houston, Texas, was announced Tuesday [April 11] by President Charles Lee during a campus ceremony commemorating his April 15 retirement as MSU’s 17th chief executive. Lee…
BCoE Faculty Honored by MSU
STARKVILLE, Miss.–During Mississippi State’s 2006 Faculty Awards and Recognition Program Wednesday, three faculty members received university-wide honors. Arthur G. Cosby was named a William L. Giles Distinguished Professor, while Keith Koenig received the John Grisham Master Teacher Award and Robert B. Reese, the MSU Alumni Association Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award. Cosby is director of the…
Two National Academies members joining MSU faculty ranks
Two widely recognized scholars and members of the prestigious National Academies are joining the faculty ranks at Mississippi State University. Reproductive biologist Neal First soon will begin an appointment with the university’s biological sciences department, while electrical engineer James Flanagan–a 1948 MSU graduate–will be affiliated with the Bagley College of Engineering. Both will hold the…