Media - Part 211
Engineering professor added to Columbia investigation efforts
In the wake of the Feb. 1 loss of the space shuttle Columbia, a Mississippi State professor is helping investigators analyze the impact of falling foam debris on the space vehicle’s ceramic-tiled underbelly. Mark F. Horstemeyer, who holds the university’s Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems Chair (endowed professorship) in Solid Mechanics, recently was asked to…
ECE team rolls from behind to win Southeastern Region
A team of six Mississippi State engineering students is the winner of a regional competition to design and construct a robot capable of maneuvering and performing specific tasks in a maze. All seniors, the university team recently battled from behind to take first place ahead of 25 other groups at the annual Region 3 SeCon…
Biological engineering major wins NSF Fellowship
Mississippi State University biological engineering major Jennifer A. Woodfield of Birmingham, Ala., is receiving a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship worth $96,000 over three years. “She is the only student from Mississippi State to receive this award and one of only two from universities in Mississippi,” said department head Jerome A. Gilbert, noting…
Mississippi State computer scientist in ‘Top 40 Under 40’
Mississippi State computer scientist is among 40 young professionals being honored by the Mississippi Business Journal. Associate professor Anthony Skjellum is a selection for the publication’s 2002 “Top 40 Under 40” group of honorees. In addition to his teaching and research duties at MSU, Skjellum is president and chief executive officer of MPI Software Technology…
Engineering professor to lead MSU SimCenter, Engineering Research Center
A veteran researcher has been named interim director of Mississippi State’s Computational Simulation and Design Center, also known as the SimCenter, which is one component of the nationally recognized Engineering Research Center at MSU. Mechanical engineer David Marcum, who serves as director of the overall ERC, also will lead the SimCenter, effective July 9. He…
MSU students named new NSF computer security scholars
Mississippi State University is receiving more than $1 million for scholarships and other support for students training to meet the nation’s critical need for computer security and information assurance professionals. University juniors Ben A. Hubbard of Louisville and Jason E. Free of Muscle Shoals, Ala., senior Cleveland V. Johnson of Canton and graduate student Jeffrey…
MSU continues to progress in research rankings
Mississippi State is taking another upward step in the rankings of national research institutions. According to a new report from the National Science Foundation, the university now is 57th among public institutions in research and development expenditures for science and engineering. The achievement is based on a 1999-2000 volume of $132.5 million, a 19.5 percent…
MSU professor named Outstanding Young Engineer
A Mississippi State University associate professor of electrical and computer engineering is being honored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Noel Schulz is receiving the IEEE Power Engineering Society Walter Fee Outstanding Young Engineer Award. The honor is presented each year by the international professional organization to a member of its Power Engineering…
National society: MSU engineering prof ‘outstanding teacher’
For the first time since being instituted in 1972, a national award recognizing achievements in university engineering instruction is being presented to a Mississippi faculty member. Noel N. Schulz, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Mississippi State University, is the 2002 C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Young Electrical Engineering Teacher. The award is presented…
MSU prof serves as NASA chief earth science technologist
Roger King teaches and searches for ways to apply remote sensing technology to areas ranging from transportation systems to agriculture. For the next year, however, the Mississippi State professor of electrical and computer engineering also will lend his extensive expertise to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. King, director of the university’s Computational Geospatial Technologies…