Media - Part 193
Civil Engineering department provides study for Natchez Trace
The Associated Press Clarion Ledger Drivers have long appreciated the view along the Natchez Trace Parkway, but a new study shows they should keep their eyes on the road. Driver inattentiveness was cited as the biggest contributing factor for nearly doubling accident rates on the Tupelo and Ridgeland sections of the national parkway and to…
NASA director discusses plans for exploration of solar system
The head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration told a Mississippi State gathering Monday Americans overwhelmingly support U.S. plans to return to the moon and explore the solar system beyond. Despite “pressing issues” on Earth, Michael Griffin said “75 percent of Americans support or strongly support” President George W. Bush’s expressed mandate to extend…
Computer engineering student named 10th MSU Goldwater Scholar
A computer engineering major with a perfect 4.0 grade-point average is Mississippi State’s latest Barry M. Goldwater Scholar. Junior Wesley J. Holland of Brandon is among only 323 students selected nationally on the basis of their academic accomplishments in mathematics, science and engineering. More than 1,000 students were nominated for the 2006 awards by collegiate…
MSU alumnus named commander of Air Force lab
Mississippi State University alumnus Maj. Gen. Ted F. Bowlds was named commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, in January. Bowlds graduated in 1975 from the Bagley College of Engineering’s electrical and computer engineering department. Under Bowlds’ new position, he is responsible for managing the Air Force’s $1.5…
Greenwood joins executive committee of study-abroad consortium
Mississippi State industrial engineering professor Allen Greenwood is a newly elected member of the Global Engineering Education Exchange’s executive committee. “Global E3 is a great organization and I look forward to working with them to enhance the study-abroad opportunities for engineering students,” said Greenwood, who also is coordinator of international programs for the university’s Bagley…
MSU IE name change reflects modern engineering trends
Mississippi State’s industrial engineering department is being renamed the department of industrial and systems engineering to better reflect modern program trends within the profession. Department head Royce Bowden said industrial engineers design, improve and install systems of people, materials, information, equipment and energy. He said the name change reflects an expanded focus on systems engineering…
New MSU institute uses digital biology to improve human health
A new institute at Mississippi State will merge traditional strengths in engineering and biology to help solve global problems related to human health, nutrition, food safety, bio-security, and agricultural production. The state College Board recently approved establishment of the Institute for Digital Biology, a unique, multidisciplinary research unit that could launch the 128-year-old land-grant university…
MSU engineering student’s research paper wins recognition
A Mississippi State chemical engineering doctoral student from Cordova, Tenn., is being recognized by a national organization for his research paper on alternative energy sources. In May, Darrell L. Sparks will receive the 2006 Outstanding Student Abstract Award of the American Oil Chemists Society. His report is titled “Modeling the Solubility of Oleic, Pelargonic and…
Kelley Williams delivers Hunter Henry Lecture
The former chief executive officer of First Mississippi Corp./Chemfirst Inc. speaks today [March 7] at Mississippi State as the 2006 Hunter Henry Lecturer in Chemical Engineering. At 3:30 p.m., J. Kelley Williams leads in the fifth annual public lectureship sponsored by the university’s Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering, headed by Mark G. White….
Two engineering students win Air Force summer internships
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Two Mississippi State electrical engineering majors are among only 32 students nationwide selected for a prestigious summer internship program of the U.S. Air Force. Nicole C. McGee of Muscle Shoals, Ala., and Theodore R. “Ted” Copeland of Olive Branch will participate in the Air Force Officer Accession and Training Schools Summer Technical Recruiting Internship…