Media - Part 212
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,…
MSU Engineering Faculty Member Named to International Post
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Noel N. Schulz of Mississippi State is the new secretary of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Power Engineering Society. The associate professor of electrical and computer engineering will serve a two-year term on both the PES governing board and executive committee in her role as secretary. She has taught in the Bagley…
Enrique Sosa to Keynote 2004 MSU Hunter Henry Lectureship
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Former Amoco and Dow executive Enrique J. Sosa will discuss his 35-year career in the chemical industry during a Feb. 19 program at Mississippi State. Sosa will keynote the Hunter Henry Lectureship in Chemical Engineering, a public event to begin at 3:30 p.m. in the George Eastman Auditorium of the university’s Swalm School of…
MSU computer science students bring home top programming honors
A student computer science team from Mississippi State University is the winner of 2002 regional competition organized by the Association for Computing Machinery International. Sponsored by IBM, the annual collegiate computer programming contest recently took place at the Daytona Beach, Fla., campus of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. MSU’s Team Maroon was first to correctly solve…
MSU Engineering Alumnus Puts ‘Netcam’ Where His Heart Is
A Mississippi State alumnus wants the whole world to see the campus and its historic Drill Field from the vantage point of the engineering college where he Spent so many memorable years, so he put a camera where his heart is. A “netcam” camera purchased through a donation by Jackson dentist Jeffrey D. “Jeff” Hartsog…