Grants & Funding | Bagley College of Engineering - Part 2

CSE student earns prestigious fellowship

A Mississippi State Ph.D. student is one of just 11 students worldwide to be selected for the highly competitive Computational and Data Science Fellowship from the Association for Computing Machinery. Somayeh Bakhtiari Ramezani, a doctoral student in MSU’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, was selected from a pool of more than 200 candidates. The…

August 31, 2021


MSU, ERDC partner on $7.8 million research project to advance military engineering

Mississippi State University is leading a $7.8 million U.S. Department of Defense project to advance military engineering capabilities.

July 29, 2021


DoD awards prestigious SMART Scholarship to MSU researcher

A recent Mississippi State Bagley College of Engineering graduate now employed in the university’s Geosystems Research Institute is receiving a prestigious U.S. Department of Defense Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation Scholarship.

July 9, 2021


MSU professors receive $1.6 million for two nuclear energy research projects

Faculty members in Mississippi State University’s departments of Aerospace Engineering and Geosciences are advancing nuclear energy technology with $1.6 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for two separate projects.

June 28, 2021


Gulf coast engineering student earns DOE fellowship

Christopher Pilmaier

A Bagley College of Engineering student has been selected to receive a highly competitive fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy. Christopher Pilmaier, a student in Mississippi State’s Engineering on the Coast program, will receive $161,000 over three years as part of the Office of Nuclear Energy’s Integrated University Program. The fellowship provides $52,000 each…

June 25, 2021


Civil & environmental engineering receives grants to upgrade educational equipment

The Richard A. Rula School of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Mississippi State has earned more than $158,000 in grants from the Mississippi Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Surveyors 2021 Educational Grant Program. The funds will be used to upgrade equipment within the school to support laboratory and classroom instruction. The funds we…

April 19, 2021


Three times the good news: Bulldog trio selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship program

Two seniors in Mississippi State’s Bagley College of Engineering and one senior in the university’s College of Arts and Sciences have been accepted into the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship program.

April 19, 2021


DoD Awards SMART Scholarship to Researcher with MSU’s Geosystems Research Institute

Meilun Zhou, a GRI Research Associate, was awarded the Department of Defense Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation Scholarship.

April 12, 2021


Mechanical engineering professor earns NSF grant

Headshot of Like Li

Like Li, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in Mississippi State’s Bagley College of Engineering and also affiliated with the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems at Mississippi State, will receive nearly $170,000 from the National Science Foundation to help study the thermochemical reactions that occur during solar thermal energy storage. The grant is one of…

March 25, 2021


MSU engineering professor receives $515K NSF CAREER award to support additive manufacturing research

A faculty member in Mississippi State’s Bagley College of Engineering will advance her research in additive manufacturing after receiving $515,000 from a National Science Foundation CAREER award.

February 22, 2021