Media - Part 211
Former Seiko CEO to Discuss Nanotechnology
STARKVILLE, Miss.–The recently retired former leader of Seiko Corp. will discuss the growing importance of nanotechnology in the creation of new industries during a May 3 visit to Mississippi State. Dr. Reinosuke Hara, the longtime president and chief executive officer of the Japanese watch-manufacturing company, will address MSU science and engineering faculty. To begin at…
MSU Engineering Dean Receives Teddy Roosevelt Award
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Mississippi State’s retiring dean of engineering is receiving a prestigious award in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession. A. Wayne Bennett, leader of the university’s Bagley College of Engineering since 1996, recently accepted the Teddy Roosevelt Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies—Mississippi. Given during the organization’s winter banquet in Jackson, the…
MSU Computer Codes Helping NASA Design Future Space Shuttles
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Research engineers at Mississippi State are providing unique, high-performance computer codes to help U.S. space officials design safer and more efficient rocket-propelled vehicles of the future. A team from the university’s Computational Simulation and Design Center is working closely with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to accurately and effectively simulate combustion problems and…
Toghiani Selected for Outstanding Teaching Award
STARKVILLE, Miss.–A Mississippi State professor will be recognized for outstanding teaching in early April by the American Society for Engineering Education. Rebecca K. Toghiani, an associate professor of chemical engineering, will receive the ASEE Southeast Section’s Outstanding Teaching Award during the organization’s conference at Auburn University. “This is a terrific honor and is a reflection…
TVA Using Latest Technology to Guard Against Major Blackout
STARKVILLE, Miss.-The Tennessee Valley Authority is using all available resources, including the latest technology, to protect its seven-state coverage area against a major blackout such as occurred in the northeastern United States last year. “We’ve got to be smarter about what we do,” TVA official Jim Rossman said Tuesday at Mississippi State. He was among…
Plastic Engineers Society Establishes MSU Scholarship Endowment
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Mississippi State engineering students, particularly those with a special interest in plastics, will benefit from a $25,000 check presented to the university by professionals who work in the field. Representatives of the Mississippi Chapter, Society of Plastic Engineers made the gift to the Bagley College of Engineering and the MSU Foundation during its February…
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…