Media - Part 209
Veteran Professor Glenn Steele to Serve as Interim Engineering Dean
STARKVILLE, Miss.–A veteran Mississippi State professor and administrator will head the university’s Bagley College of Engineering on an interim basis pending a national search for a new dean. W. Glenn Steele, an MSU William L. Giles Distinguished Professor and head of the mechanical engineering department, will assume his new duties Oct. 1. He replaces current…
Cyber Attack
STARKVILLE, Miss.–A computer security major at Mississippi State used cyber-investigative techniques he learned in the classroom to thwart the improper activities of a would-be hacker from another institution. When Wes McGrew recently noticed his campus e-mail and Internet activities had slowed to a trickle, he became suspicious. Installing special software, he quickly determined that a…
MSU Computer Security Center Gets $800,000 to Fight Cyber Attacks
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Mississippi State will receive nearly $800,000 from the National Science Foundation to help protect networked computer systems and other critical national infrastructures against the threat of cyber attacks. The Cyber Trust grant of $793,156 from the NSF’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering will enable the university’s nationally recognized Center for Computer…
MSU Flight Lab Works on New Generation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Mississippi State’s Raspet Research Flight Laboratory will use an initial $3 million federal defense grant to help design a new-generation unmanned aerial vehicle that could strengthen U.S. battlefield surveillance capabilities. The congressional dollars will flow through the Advanced Technology Directorate of the U.S. Army’s Space Missile Defense Command in Huntsville, Ala., in fiscal year…
MSU Engineering Student Receives ASME’s Gracik Scholarship
STARKVILLE, Miss.–A Mississippi State senior is among 18 national recipients of a 2004 John and Elsa Gracik Scholarship from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Justin M. Crapps, a mechanical engineering major from Florence, Ala., was awarded the $1,500 scholarship during the recent ASME annual summer meeting. He is an MSU Dean’s Scholar and the…
Kirk Schulz of MSU Joins Engineering Accreditation Commission
STARKVILLE, Miss.–The director of Mississippi State’s Swalm School of Chemical Engineering is a new appointee to a prestigious commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. Kirk H. Schulz, who also holds the Earnest W. Deavenport Jr. Chair (endowed professorship) in the university’s Bagley College of Engineering, has been named to ABET’s Engineering Accreditation…
MSU Among Nation’s Top 25 in Engineering Research
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Mississippi State now ranks 24th among the nation’s universities in engineering research and development expenditures, according to a new report from the National Science Foundation. MSU climbed from 32nd in engineering research in the previous edition of the NSF publication, “Academic Research and Development Expenditures.” The report released July 30 is based on data…
MSU Scientist Urges Biomass Development to Replace Petroleum
STARKVILLE, Miss.–A Mississippi State research scientist is urging Congress to consider plant and animal materials as a replacement for dwindling supplies of petroleum in the future production of fuels and other important chemicals. “With our worldwide petroleum reserves playing out their capability to support industrial activity over the next 100 years, new options for future…
MSU helping create minority business database
University Relations News Bureau (662) 325-3442 Contact: Phil Hearn July 8, 2003 Mississippi State University has entered into a partnership with state government and a non-profit corporation to create a searchable computer database of minority-owned businesses.Designed by two MSU student engineering majors as an intern project this summer, the database is expected to be up…
3M Grant Will Help MSU Engineering Students Learn About Quality
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Mississippi State’s James Worth Bagley College of Engineering is receiving more than $500,000 from 3M to establish a Six Sigma Certificate Program, designed to provide students with industry’s latest customer satisfaction training through quality control. 3M representatives Larry Thomason and Brian Schoeberl made the announcement during a recent ceremony at the university’s Swalm School…