Grants & Funding | Bagley College of Engineering

Mississippi State University receives grant for AI-enabled solutions in forestry

STARKVILLE, Miss.— Mohammad Marufuzzaman, a Mississippi State University professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and his team have been awarded a $750,000 grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture to support the development of advanced artificial intelligence solutions aimed at advancing artificial intelligence solutions in forestry product evaluation. “This…

November 25, 2025


MSU receives $1.25 million NSF grant to support resilient, affordable housing development for Mississippi rural communities

Nazanin Tajik

September 22, 2025


Costs’ Planned Gift Fuels Excellence in Civil and Environmental Engineering

January 6, 2025


Mechanical engineering instructor and IDEELab deputy director has big plans for $10.5 million grant

Studio portrait of Ross Smith.

September 8, 2023


MSU continues support of federal cyber workforce with $4.1 million in new NSF CyberCorps Funding

M-State logo with the words Bagley College of Engineering underneath.

August 1, 2023


MSU mechanical engineering assistant professor awarded TVA grant

M-State logo with the words Bagley College of Engineering underneath.

MSU mechanical engineering assistant professor Like Li has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the Tennessee Valley Authority to design, develop and demonstrate a lab-scale thermal energy storage reactor. “This is an excellent opportunity for my research group to design, build up, and test a kW-scale packed-bed chemical reactor in our lab,” Li said. “We…

July 26, 2023


MSU Bagley College of Engineering proposal funded by the USDA

Mohammad Marufuzzaman

A proposal submitted by Mississippi State Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering professor Mohammad Marufuzzaman was selected for funding by the United States Department of Agriculture through June 2025. The proposal idea, “The Image Based Assessment of Wood Chip Qualities: Transferred Learning Model Development to Field Validation,” was created in the summer of 2021 by…

October 7, 2022


MSU student club wins big in carbon removal competition supported by SpaceX CEO’s foundation

Mississippi State is one of only 23 universities worldwide named a winner in an international carbon removal student contest supported by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s foundation.

November 10, 2021


Petroleum Experts donates $5.3 million in software licenses to MSU students

For the fourth consecutive year, Mississippi State’s petroleum engineering students will have access to industry leading computer software thanks to a donation from Scotland-based engineering firm Petroleum Experts. The Petroleum Experts (Petex) software gift includes licenses for PROSPER, GAP PVTP, MBAL, REVEAL and RESOLVE. The suite of tools is used to study fluids, subsurface, well…

November 5, 2021


MSU leads new $1.7 million research project to help disadvantaged communities confronting wildfires and related cascading hazards

An interdisciplinary team led by Mississippi State researchers is receiving a $1.7 million grant to better equip emergency planners and other stakeholders to reduce the vulnerability of disadvantaged communities to the impacts of wildfires and related cascading hazards such as mudslides, landslides and flooding.

October 18, 2021