Media - Part 206
MSU Engineering College Names New Distinguished Fellows
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Nine Mississippi State alumni who carved out successful careers after graduating from the Bagley College of Engineering are being honored as 2004 Distinguished Fellows. Leaders in business and education, they were recognized for life accomplishments during a Thursday night [Feb. 26] banquet marking National Engineers Week (E-Week) on campus. Each honoree received a plaque…
MSU Engineering Student Angela Spence Piles Up Academic Honors
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Angela Spence once spent summers helping her dad grout tile and install sheetrock, but spends most of her time these days piling up academic honors as an aerospace engineering and physics major at Mississippi State. Earlier this year, the national 2003 Goldwater Scholar and 2002 Ottilie Schillig Leadership Scholar became one of only three…
Tough fiber sensor survives extremes
1 March 2004 A fiber pressure sensor boasts a measurement limit that cripples most optical sensors. A new type of optical pressure sensor that is able to operate in extreme conditions has been developed by scientists in the US. The team from Mississippi State University says its optical fiber sensor can measure pressures of up…
MSU Helping Navy Develop High-Power Radar Systems
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Mississippi State researchers are using a grant of more than $730,000 to perfect silicon carbide material technology that may help the U.S. Navy develop new high-power radar systems. The Office of Naval Research award of $731,858 to the university’s Emerging Materials Research Laboratory also may help promote the state’s semiconductor industry. MSU researchers will…
Sigma Xi Research Society Announces 2004 Award Winners
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Mississippi State chemical engineering professor Rudy E. Rogers is receiving the university’s 2004 Sigma Xi Ralph E. Powe Research Award. Rogers is being recognized for pioneering research to unmask some of the mechanisms behind gas hydrate formation. In 2001, he received a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to lead a…
Three MSU Engineering Graduates Receive Entrepreneurship Certificates
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Three December Mississippi State engineering graduates are the latest recipients of Jack Hatcher Entrepreneurship Certificates, a program that promotes careers combining technical and business skills. Completing the program prior to fall semester graduation and being awarded the certificates by the university’s Bagley College of Engineering were Justin T. Rucker, an electrical engineering major from…
MSU Administrator Being Honored for ‘Uncertainty Analysis’ Work
STARKVILLE, Miss.–The head of Mississippi State’s mechanical engineering department is receiving a prestigious national award for his contributions in experimental uncertainty analysis, which measures the “goodness” of a test result. W. Glenn Steele, also one of the university’s William L. Giles Distinguished Professors, will receive a 2004 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Ground Testing…
MSU computer science doctoral student wins Cisco scholarship
STARKVILLE, Miss.–A Mississippi State computer science doctoral student from China is receiving a $2,500 scholarship that recognizes significant contributions in the field of information security. Wei Li, a 30-year-old student in the university’s department of computer science and engineering, is among only four students nationally receiving the Cisco Systems Information Assurance Scholarship for the 2004…
Emma Seiler Named MSU Engineering College Outreach Coordinator
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Emma E. Seiler is the new coordinator of educational outreach and student programs for Mississippi State’s Bagley College of Engineering. Co-developer of a novel shoe design activity for high school students called “The Cinderella Project,” Seiler will be responsible for planning and directing college interaction activities with the pre K-12 educational system, and coordinating…
Biological engineering professor promoted to MSU associate provost
STARKVILLE, Miss.–The head of agricultural and biological engineering at Mississippi State is being named associate provost for academic affairs at the university. Jerome A. Gilbert’s appointment was announced today [Dec. 17] by Provost Peter Rabideau. His promotion becomes effective in January with the beginning of the spring semester, pending approval by the Board of Trustees,…