Newsroom | Bagley College of Engineering - Part 145
Fossil fuels prompt lively debate at BCoE presentation
STARKVILLE, Miss. – Controversial author Alex Epstein provoked mixed emotions and lively debate while presenting his views on fossil fuels and the future of energy production at a March 18 presentation on Mississippi State University’s campus. The author of “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels” and “Fossil Fuels Improve the Planet” was invited to speak…
Students test their ‘metal’ in smithing challenge
STARKVILLE, Miss. –Bagley College of Engineering students will test their mettle this week when they pit their metal against other universities’ in a national sword-making challenge. The team of nine students forged, hammered and cast a Viking-style sword for a bladesmithing competition sponsored by the Mineral, Metals and Materials Society in conjunction with its annual…
Civil engineers celebrate decade of Traffic Bowl dominance
STARKVILLE, Miss. – A team of civil engineers from the Bagley College of Engineering secured its decade of dominance with a commanding win at the 2015 Deep South Regional Traffic Bowl. The three-person, Mississippi State University team scored 1,100 points higher than second place-finisher Jackson State University and 2,000 points more than third place-finisher, and…
Fossil fuel debate ignites March 18 at Mississippi State event
STARKVILLE, Miss. – A March 18 event will explain the “moral case for fossil fuels” as part of the Mississippi State University Bagley College of Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series. Alex Epstein, author of “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels” and “Fossil Fuels Improve the Planet,” will speak at a 3 p.m. free public lecture in…
Student accepts high-achievement award
STARKVILLE, Miss – An industrial engineering major’s outstanding performance in academics, leadership and service has earned recognition from Mississippi State University. Senior Ryan Weitzel received the Harry Charles Simrall Award for Engineering Excellence from the MSU Association of Retired Faculty. One of the highest awards a Bagley College of Engineering student can receive from the…
MSU alumna takes crack at Hour of Code
STARKVILLE, Miss. – In Mississippi, available computing jobs grow at 4.4 times the state average, leaving the Magnolia State with more than 1,100 open jobs in the field, according to Code.org. This statistic has helped ignite a push to increase student knowledge of the computer science industry and forged an unexpected connection between Mississippi State…
Xiaopeng Li: NSF awards assistant professor CAREER grant
A member of the Bagley College of Engineering’s civil engineering faculty has received one of the National Science Foundation’s most competitive research grants. Xiaopeng Li, an assistant professor in the civil and environmental engineering department, earned an NSF CAREER award, which will provide $500,000 of funding for his research and educational contributions in connected automated…
Mississippi State again among research top 100
STARKVILLE, Miss. – A new report from the National Science Foundation affirms Mississippi State as the Magnolia State’s flagship research university.
Infant head-trauma research brings leading U.K. university to MSU
STARKVILLE, Miss. – After a year of planning, two European engineers visited Starkville to collaborate with Bagley College of Engineering researchers on experiments that could only be conducted in labs at Mississippi State University. Mike Jones, a senior lecturer, and Dan Darwall, a doctoral candidate, traveled to the Magnolia State from Cardiff University, Wales, to…
Du named Fellow of international optics society
STARKVILLE, Miss. – An international organization has awarded a Bagley College professor its most prestigious membership rank. Qian “Jenny” Du, a Bobby Shackouls Endowed Professor of electrical engineering, has been named a Fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). “Dr. Du is an expert in digital image processing and its application to…