Media - Part 196
MSU’s new CAVS head to receive alumnus award from Ohio State
August 31, 2005 STARKVILLE, Miss.–The new director of Mississippi State’s Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems will be honored Friday [Sept. 2] as a 2005 Distinguished Alumnus by Ohio State University. Randall M. German received a master’s degree in metallurgical engineering from OSU in 1971. The alumnus award recognizes his distinguished achievement and eminent contributions to…
MSU engineering college names new endowed professors
August 24, 2005 Five members of the Mississippi State faculty are new appointees to endowed professorships in the university’s James Worth Bagley College of Engineering. They include: –Mechanical engineering professor David L. Marcum, –Electrical and computer engineering professor Robert J. Moorhead II, –Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Noel N. Schulz, –Mechanical engineering department head…
MSU grad students sweep water environment research competition
Mississippi State graduate students from Philadelphia, Flowood and Wiggins swept top honors for research presentations at the 48th annual meeting and technical conference of the Mississippi Water Environment Association. A total of 12 from the Starkville university and the universities of Louisiana at Lafayette and Alabama-Tuscaloosa made presentations during the recent two-day conference in Gulfport….
Congressman urges KEI missile defense system
U.S. Rep. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said Friday a missile defense system currently under development in Mississippi is badly needed to deter the threat of “nuclear intimidation by some rogue nation’s leader.” The six-term lawmaker from Pontotoc told a gathering of government, military, academic, and defense-industry officials that Kinetic Energy Interceptors currently sought by the Pentagon…
MSU graduate nation’s top aerospace engineering student for 2005
August 15, 2005 Recent Mississippi State graduate Angela M. Spence of Brandon is receiving this year’s Sigma Gamma Tau/Ammon S. Andes Award, which recognizes the top U.S. university aerospace engineering major. Spence, who received her May degree summa cum laude, was chosen from among regional winners of the aerospace engineering honor society’s annual undergraduate awards…
MSU’s Martin named civil engineering society fellow
A Mississippi State professor is a new Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, considered one of the profession’s most esteemed honors. James L. Martin, holder of the university’s Kelly Gene Cook Sr. Chair (endowed professorship) in Civil Engineering and an MSU faculty member since 2001, becomes one of four faculty members from his…
MSU invention excites concrete-in interest of bridge safety
August 2, 2005 When Mississippi State researchers start exciting concrete, you can bet they’re up to something good. That’s because a new invention by engineers at the university’s Diagnostic Instrumentation and Analysis Laboratory–DIAL–generates enough excitement to test the structural integrity of bridges and other things made of concrete. The Automatic Chain Drag System–formerly called Hollow…
NSF award worth $400,000 to MSU engineering professor
July 26, 2005 A Mississippi State chemical engineering professor is receiving $400,000 over five years as a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for junior faculty members nationwide. Priscilla Hill, an assistant professor in the university’s Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering, has won a 2005 NSF Faculty Early Career Development…
MSU engineering students design, build, fly UAV in competition
July 21, 2005 Students at Mississippi State are part of a new generation of undergraduate university engineers who are designing and building unmanned aerial vehicles capable of performing real-world missions. A 17-member team from MSU’s Bagley College of Engineering finished seventh among 14 national and international groups in the third annual student competition of the…
MSU engineers focus high-tech microscope on cutting-edge research
July 18, 2005 A Mississippi State engineering team led by Mark Horstemeyer and James C. Newman Jr. will use a $338,000 government award to purchase a high-performance microscope for cutting-edge, defense-related research. The U.S. Defense Department’s Defense University Research Instrumentation Program has awarded the grant to Horstemeyer, who holds the university’s Center for Advanced Vehicular…