Newsroom | Bagley College of Engineering - Part 129
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…
IMAGE Summer Bridge program concludes
The IMAGE Summer Bridge program, sponsored by Dow, recently held its closing ceremony. The Bagley College of Engineering/IMAGE Summer Bridge is a part of the Louis Stokes Mississippi Alliance for Minority Participation and is used to help incoming minority students adjust to university life and classes in the fields of science, mathematics, engineering and technology….
Former MSU professor enrolls as student at EMCC
MAYHEW, Miss. (NEWS RELEASE) — George Adebiyi co-wrote a book on thermodynamics, conducted research for NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center and served for two years as an associate technical editor for the ASME “Journal of Solar Energy Engineering.” On a day earlier this week Adebiyi, a professor emeritus at Mississippi State University, laughed as…
Our People: Billy Wilemon
He’s circled the Egyptian pyramids on a camel and visited England’s renowned Stonehenge prehistoric monument. Billy B. Wilemon’s career as a chemical engineer has taken him to these and a number of other major world sites. A semi-retired Aberdeen native who received a Mississippi State bachelor’s degree 43 years ago, he’s back at the university…