Newsroom | Bagley College of Engineering - Part 124
Aerospace engineering student wins prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
Mississippi State senior, Johnie Sublett, an aerospace engineering major in the Bagley College of Engineering and a member of the Shackhoul’s Honor College, recently received one of the most prestigious undergraduate awards given in the sciences: selection as a Goldwater scholar for 2016. Awarded by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship foundation, the honor goes to the…
Chevron invests in Mississippi State engineering
Chevron continued its support of Mississippi State University and the Bagley College of Engineering with a $360,000 donation that was announced at State’s football game against South Carolina. This year’s gift is part of a three-year commitment of $1,080,000 that will support several initiatives within the college, including a new teaching lab, academic and study abroad scholarships and…
CHE student earns academic scholarship
Mississippi State University chemical engineering student Priscilla Symmes was recently honored with an academic scholarship from the USS Little Rock Association. The Captain Kent R. Siegel Memorial Scholarship Award is given to descendants of former crewmen of the USS Little Rock. Symmes, a junior from Huntsville, Alabama, received the $1,000 scholarship a year after her…
Mechanical Engineering establishes seminar series for undergraduates
STARKVILLE, Miss. – This fall, Bagley College of Engineering’s mechanical engineering department will introduce a series of seminars for undergraduate students. The series opener will take place on Friday, September 9, at 2 p.m., in Hand 1100. In the initial seminar, 1994 Mississippi State mechanical engineering graduate Chris Ewing will share the details of his…
Fighting hackers takes an offensive approach
They’re in. Soon the city is dark and water service halts as utility plants shut down. Once civil order is restored, many businesses and individuals find a nightmare scenario—wiped out accounts, compromised sensitive information and stolen identities. But who are “they?” In popular film, “they” often range from isolated pockets of brilliant malcontents to self-taught…
MSU’s Team Xipiter soars at UAS competition
STARKVILLE, Miss. – A Mississippi State University student team achieved a top ten finish at an international unmanned air system competition. MSU’s Team Xipiter clinched 6th place overall during the 14th annual Student Unmanned Air System Competition hosted by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) in Patuxent, Maryland. A total of 43 teams…
ME faculty member selected for SEC grant
Congratulations to Lei Chen, an assistant professor from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who received a 2016-2017 Southeastern Conference (SEC) Visiting Faculty Travel Grant. This December, Chen will be visiting the University of Georgia’s Mechanical Engineering Department to enhance research collaboration on materials between both departments. Chen’s proposal was one of eight across the Mississippi…
Bagley Ph.D. student wins prestigious scholarship
Bagley College of Engineering Ph.D. candidate Mohammad “MJ.” Mahtabi has been chosen as one of three recipients of the 2016 International Graduate Scholarship from the American Society for Testing and Materials. The ASTM announcement states that “Mahtabi … will use the scholarship to study the mechanical and fatigue behavior of nickel-titanium alloys (Nitinol), which are used in…
Advanced High Strength Steel: Or How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Ask most college students how they spent their summer break and you’ll probably hear about trips to the beach or an easy-going summer job. But ask Jaylin Myers about his summer and he launches into an explanation about the properties of advanced high strength steel. An Atlanta native, Myers spent his summer participating in Mississippi…
#MSUExperience Spotlight: El Madhi Akdi
“It was my childhood dream to build and launch my own rocket. That’s the main reason I wanted to study aerospace engineering. When I heard about the opportunity to attend Mississippi State and actually pursue that childhood dream, I immediately knew that’s where I wanted to be. Since I’ve been at MSU, I’ve helped launch a…