Newsroom | Bagley College of Engineering - Part 145
King earns worldwide organization’s top membership honor
STARKVILLE, Miss. – A veteran administrator in the Bagley College of Engineering will receive a worldwide organization’s highest membership honor. Roger King, director of the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, will be named a Fellow in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) this January. The rank of Fellow is the highest grade of…
Bagley College launches first-of-its-kind initiative for students
Students in Mississippi State’s Bagley College of Engineering will benefit from a new initiative meant to spur involvement in engineering technical societies. Launched this fall, the membership program allows students to join their fields’ leading technical society at no personal costs. It is available for all full-time, on-campus undergraduate and graduate students. More than 83…
Mississippi State’s Bagley College adds National Academy member to faculty
STARKVILLE, Miss. – A member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has joined the faculty ranks in the Bagley College of Engineering. Michael I. Baskes has recently been named a professor of aerospace engineering and special assistant to the dean. “I am delighted that my first hire is our first NAE member at Mississippi State,” said…
Bagley College holds BEST Competition for high school students
It’s Saturday in the fall. The crowd is cheering, the band is playing, and the mascots are jumping in anticipation for the game—a robotics competition. This football-like atmosphere is for the Mississippi Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology (MS BEST) Robotics competition. Sponsored by the Bagley College of Engineering, it’s the culmination of the six-week program…
KITECH taps MSU’s King for advisory board
A South Korean institute has asked a senior research administrator at Mississippi State University to provide counsel on international collaborative issues. The Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, known as KITECH, has appointed Roger King to its international advisory board, which has a focus on the industrialization of advanced technologies. Board members include eminent scientists and…
BCoE teams end year with success, plan for next competitions
STARKVILLE, Miss. – Hoping to build on last year’s successes, many Bagley College of Engineering design teams look to start the fall semester with new members and fresh ideas. Starting tomorrow, August 27, these teams will begin holding interest meetings for students—both engineering and, in many cases, non-engineering majors—who would like to join their efforts…
MSU team places first in timber bridge competition
STARKVILLE, Miss. ⎯ Winning any competition is a great success for any university team, but when two of Mississippi State’s colleges are able to work together and share resources for one project, it is the true win for Mississippi State University. A Bagley college of Engineering team of civil engineers won the 2013 American Society…
Grad student receives French Fellowship
STARKVILLE, Miss. — A Bagley College of Engineering graduate student has become the first Mississippi State student to earn a prestigious fellowship from the French Embassy. Kristopher McKenzie is one of 40 from across the country to earn the 2014 Chateaubriand Fellowship. The only recipient from Mississippi and one of only 18 engineering students in…
Sloan Ziegler earns place on Capitol Hill
STARKVILLE, Miss.— A Bagley College of Engineering doctoral candidate has earned a fellowship that will take her to Capitol Hill. Jennifer Sloan Ziegler has earned a 2014 National Sea Grant College Program Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship. She is one of 10 in the group of 50 that will serve as a legislative…
Green to lead professional engineers
STARKVILLE, Miss.– The Bagley College of Engineering’s undergraduate coordinator will lead a society of professional engineers for the next year. On July 20, Robert Green was installed as president of the National Society of Professional Engineers during its annual conference in Washington, D.C. Elected to the position by his fellow society members, he has served…