Newsroom | Bagley College of Engineering - Part 146
Chemical engineering director earns innovative education award
STARKVILLE, Miss.– A Bagley College of Engineering professor has earned a national award for innovative teaching.Jason Keith, a professor and director of the Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering, has received the David Himmelblau Award for a decade of work in developing hydrogen fuel cell and energy education modules.This award is sponsored by the…
Bammann adds new Fellow honor to career achievements
STARKVILLE, Miss.— A Bagley College of Engineering mechanical engineering professor will receive the highest grade of membership from the Society of Engineering Science. Douglas Bammann will be named a Fellow during the organization’s 50th annual technical meeting at Brown University July 28-31. He is the only member to earn the honor this year. The rank…
MSU Space Cowboys excel at national competition
STARKVILLE, Miss.— The Mississippi State University Space Cowboys rocket team impressed judges at this year’s NASA’s University Student Launch Initiative (USLI) competition. The Space Cowboys placed fifth out of 25 teams from across the nation. The team also won the Design Review Award for the best combination of written reviews and formal presentations during competition….
MSU team wins IT FLIES competition
A team of undergraduate aerospace engineering majors won the international 2013 IT FLIES Annual Aircraft and Handling USA Flight Simulation Competition. The first place finish earned the five-member team $1,000 and a year’s free membership in the Royal Aeronautical Society. Nine teams from the United States and the United Kingdom competed in the April 13…
Zhang named to national research board task force
STARKVILLE, Miss. – A Bagley College of Engineering faculty member has been appointed to a national task force for emergency preparedness. Li Zhang, an associate professor in civil engineering, will serve a nearly three-year term on the task force for emergency evacuations of the Transportation Research Board, a division of the National Research Council. The…
Newman earns lifetime achievement, Fellow recognition from national organizations
STARKVILLE, Miss. – Recognizing his work in fatigue and fracture research, two national organizations honor a Bagley College of Engineering professor’s nearly 50-year career. James C. Newman Jr., the Richard H. Johnson chair of aerospace engineering, received the Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2012 International Conference on Fatigue Damage of…
Horstemeyer to be honored by two national organizations
STARKVILLE, Miss. –The spring semester will be twice as nice for one Bagley College of Engineering professor as two national organizations grant him elite status. Mark F. Horstemeyer, a chair professor in mechanical and computation engineering, will join Mississippi State colleague James C. Newman, aerospace, in being recognized as a Fellow of the American Association…
Bagley online programs ranked 12th by U.S. News and World Report
STARKVILLE, Miss. – The Bagley College of Engineering is in the top fourth of online graduate programs nationally according to U.S. News and World Report rankings released Tuesday. In its first time providing overall rankings for online degree-granting engineering programs, the website lists the Bagley College as 12th among the 50 graduate schools rated. The…
Truax selected for leadership in national, state engineering organizations
STARKVILLE, Miss. – The head of civil and environmental engineering in the Bagley College of Engineering now sits on the executive boards of two engineering organizations. Dennis D. Truax was installed as assistant treasurer of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) at an October meeting. He became secretary of the Mississippi Board of Licensure…
Four Bagley faculty members selected for national symposium
STARKVILLE, Miss—Four Bagley College of Engineering faculty members are among a small group of educators selected for a national engineering symposium. Islam El-adaway, Bryan Jones, Lesley Strawderman and Rani Sullivan attended the National Academy of Engineering’s fourth Frontiers of Engineering Education symposium held last month in Irvine, Calif. The two and a half day event…