The Mississippi State Space Cowboys rocketry team reached new heights in its history with a record high overall finish at the 2024 Spaceport America Cup. Held in New Mexico, the annual intercollegiate rocket competition invited student teams to design, build and launch rockets across six categories. The team competed in the 30K Commercial Off-The-Shelf solid…
MSU EcoCAR’s new acquisition, the Cadillac LYRIQ, is a smooth and quiet ride. With its hands-free Super Cruise and comprehensive, innovative system that includes rear park assist and automatic emergency braking, even someone who knows nothing about cars can recognize the thoughtfulness put into the 2023 design. The vehicle is so quiet that only the…
The Bagley College of Engineering and the Richard A. Rula School of Civil and Environmental Engineering are proud to announce that the 2023 Mississippi State University surveying team came in at first place at the Gulf Coast Symposium ASCE UESI Surveying Competition held at the University of South Alabama this spring. MSU’s team of four…
Two teams of students from Mississippi State University’s Department of Aerospace Engineering’s aircraft design classes placed in the 2023 IT FLIES Flight Simulation Competition. The competition, hosted by Merlin Flight Simulation Group, was held at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio, this past April. Merlin Flight Simulation Group organizes a unique Aircraft Design and…
Concrete cornhole, steel bridge aesthetics and surveying were just a few of the competitions Mississippi State University civil engineering students placed in at the 2023 American Society of Civil Engineers Gulf Coast Symposium. The symposium, held at the University of South Alabama on March 9-11, allowed students to develop their leadership skills further while engaging…
The Catalpa Creek Watershed is cleaner thanks to numerous organizations participating in the creek’s annual cleanup this past March. Once a year student organizations come together to remove garbage from the creek. The Bagley College of Engineering student group Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), spearheaded the cleanup with support from CHEVRON and the Bagley…
The Mississippi State chapter of Tau Beta Pi, an honor society for engineering students, recently inducted 24 new members into its ranks. Open to all engineering concentrations, Tau Beta Pi is the oldest universal engineering honor society and the second-oldest honor society in the United States. Tau Beta Pi chapter advisor and assistant professor of…