Grants & Funding | Bagley College of Engineering - Part 4
Two Bagley student organizations claim NASA grant
Two Mississippi State University student-led engineering teams have won an award from the Mississippi Space Grant Consortium Student Led STEM Activities Program. The Space Cowboys Rocket Team and Xipiter UAS Team each earned approximately $15,000 to support team activities. The two teams will use their award funding to offset expenses associated with participating in student…
Bagley researchers awarded NSF grant to examine the role of culture in encouraging women to pursue engineering fields
A $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will allow researchers from two Mississippi State University engineering departments to encourage young women to enter science-based computing fields. Aerospace engineering professor Rani W. Sullivan and electrical and computer engineering assistant professor M. Jean Mohammadi-Aragh were awarded funding from the NSF’s Research Initiation in Engineering Formation program….
MSU students gain virtual reality training for agriculture careers in environmental control
A $500,000 federal grant is helping Mississippi State agriculture students apply virtual reality technology to train for high-tech careers in environmental control.
Biomedical engineering student to receive prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Biomedical engineering student Paulino Jarquin has been selected to receive a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Bagley student wins award at the 2018 AIChE student conference
Junior chemical engineering major Mayukh Datta recently captured second place for his poster presentation at the 2018 American Institute of Chemical Engineers national student conference. His poster took home runner-up honors in the Environmental Science and Engineering Category II division at the conference, which was held in Pittsburgh. “Winning this award felt amazing. This was…
Collective support enhances high voltage lab at MSU
Electric Cooperatives of Mississippi, headquartered in Ridgeland, is benefitting Mississippi State’s James Worth Bagley College of Engineering through a $300,000 lead gift for updates to the Paul B. Jacob High Voltage Laboratory.
Mississippi State graduate student wins grant from NASA
A Mississippi State University graduate student was one of 54 students from across the country to win the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) Program, which awards each winner a $45,000 grant. Orhan Eroglu, a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering, won the NESSF award for his research on extending the impact of…
Three Bagley professors win SEC Visiting Faculty Travel Grants
Achievements of the Southeastern Conference’s student-athletes are well known, but many fans may not know that the SEC’s 14 member institutions pack an equally potent academic punch. Thanks to an innovative grant program funded by the conference, 10 Mississippi State University faculty members now are better equipped to collaborate with SEC colleagues from across the…
Engineering researcher wins grant to study what happens when robots meet the poultry industry
What do you get when you mix a chicken with a robot? While that might sound like the start of a “dad joke,” one Mississippi State University researcher plans to study the practical applications of robotics in the poultry industry. Yang Zhao, an assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering in Mississippi State’s Bagley College…