Media - Part 202
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…
Guardian Angel: MSU flight lab working on ‘back-packable’ UAV
July 18, 2005 U.S. combat troops in the treacherous killing fields of Afghanistan and Iraq could use a good Guardian Angel–particularly like the one under development at Mississippi State’s Raspet Flight Research Laboratory. Aerospace engineers at the university are designing a “back-packable” unmanned aerial vehicle–the Guardian Angel–to be smaller and more efficient than the Army’s…
MSU-AEA partnership to create new ‘high-powered’ industry
July 6, 2005 A new partnership announced today [July 6] between Mississippi State and United Kingdom-based AEA Technology will establish a research and development facility to produce portable power systems in support of space, defense and homeland security missions. Initially to be located in the university’s Diagnostic Instrumentation and Analysis Laboratory in Starkville, AEA Technology…
Royce Bowden new head of MSU industrial engineering
July 5, 2005 Mississippi State professor Royce O. Bowden Jr. is the new head of the university’s department of industrial engineering. A faculty member for the past 13 years and among the Hearin Eminent Scholars designated by the Bagley College of Engineering, Bowden succeeded retiring department head Larry Brown July 1. Brown retired in early…