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A 90-Year Milestone: MSU Department of Aerospace Engineering celebrates near century of trailblazing education, research

The Marvel, the world’s first all-composite aircraft, equipped with a turboprop, took off for its first flight in 1965. It was designed, developed and built at MSU’s Raspet Flight Lab.

Contact: Camille Carskadon and Harriet Laird STARKVILLE, Miss.—The Department of Aerospace Engineering at Mississippi State University is celebrating its 90th anniversary with an invitation for students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends to an Oct. 4 milestone event—a day marking almost a century of groundbreaking teaching, research and service. The day begins at 9 a.m. with…

October 3, 2024


Join us for Aerospace Engineering’s 90th Anniversary!

September 17, 2024


MSU announces 2024-25 Faculty Leadership Program cohort

August 16, 2024


MSU assistant professor’s $1.1M NASA grant to develop computational tool aiding hypersonic vehicle design

August 14, 2024


Letter from the Dean: July 2024

Dear Faculty, Staff, Students and Friends of the Bagley College of Engineering: I hope your summer is going well. I am pleased to share with you some of our most recent stories: Look at the innovative work being done in capstone design in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. The MSU EcoCAR team placed…

July 2, 2024


Aerospace engineering students compete in team competitions at AIAA student conference

Six Mississippi State aerospace engineering teams participated at the recent 2024 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Region II Student Conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida. Conner Evans, Gaige Sidaway, Britain Steele and Tyler Zeringue received second place in the Team Category with their senior seminar work “Validation and Development of…

June 10, 2024


Letter from the Dean: June 2024

Dear Faculty, Staff, Students and Friends of the Bagley College of Engineering: I hope your summer is off to a great start. We had an incredible graduation week in early May, celebrating with parents and students, where we unofficially hooded 22 PhD’s and congratulated 55 MS, 3 MEng and 561 BS degrees in engineering or…

June 5, 2024


Mississippi State Bulldogs claim debate national title after building championship program

May 1, 2024


Momentum – February 2024: Paromita Mitra, ASE Alum

Paromita Mitra

March 15, 2024


New all-weather lab enables MSU researchers to test drone flights in rain, wind

STARKVILLE, Miss.—The winds of change are blowing in Mississippi State University’s Raspet Flight Research Laboratory.  Teaming with MSU’s Department of Aerospace Engineering in a new, first-of-its-kind inclement weather laboratory, flight lab researchers will soon test drone activity in various simulated weather conditions. The research has significant commercial applications, including deliveries by uncrewed aircraft systems, commonly…

March 12, 2024