Media - Part 217
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…
Blake Hudson appointed to MSU engineering fund-raising position
A Tupelo native and Mississippi State alumnus is joining the university’s efforts to raise private funds for the College of Engineering. Blake W. Hudson, a 1989 industrial engineering graduate, is the MSU Foundation’s new assistant director of development for engineering. Previously, Hudson served two years as associate director of fund development for the Campus Crusade…
High-flying technologies focus of MSU forum
A variety of programs based around space-based technologies will be spotlighted Thursday [May 2] during the second annual Remote Sensing Research Forum at Mississippi State. The public event begins at 1 p.m. in the university’s Bost Extension Center auditorium. Remote sensing refers to the use of satellites or airplanes to collect images that reveal ground…
High-end computers could be powerful ally in disaster planning
Clusters of supercomputers may prove to be a major asset in planning for and responding to environmental disasters, particularly in urban environments. Engineers at Mississippi State University have taken a leading role in developing technologies that provide near real-time information for emergency personnel responding to chemical spills and the release–accidental or intentional–of toxic contaminants. Home…
MSU research grants increase by 10 percent, to $123 million
Major projects in areas ranging from remote sensing to biotechnology are bringing Mississippi State University’s research funding to $123 million for the fiscal year ending June 30. A 10 percent increase over the previous year, the record-setting contract and grant amounts reflect the university’s commitment to developing and disseminating technologies to benefit Mississippi, said Jonathan…