
STARKVILLE, Miss. – An endowed professor in the Bagley College of Engineering will receive the highest membership honor from an international organization. Pedro Mago, the Tennessee Valley Authority professor of mechanical engineering, has been selected as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The rank of Fellow is the highest grade of…

A team of researchers at Mississippi State University are creating a new football helmet and mouthguard designed to take concussion prevention to a whole new level.

STARKVILLE–Twenty teams of middle and high school students will compete Saturday, March 1 in the SeaPerch South regional competition hosted by the K-12 Outreach Office of the Bagley College of Engineering. The event begins at 9 a.m. at the Sanderson Center on Mississippi State’s campus. SeaPerch South is an underwater robotics competition that promotes hands-on…

STARKVILLE, Miss.–Rani Warsi Sullivan, a Mississippi State associate professor of aerospace engineering, today [Feb. 20] was named the 2014 Diversity Educator of the Year by the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning. The board celebrated Black History Month with a ceremony in Jackson and honored university faculty and staff from colleges and…

STARKVILLE, Miss. — The Bagley College recognized more than 30 students at its first Student Publications Awards Ceremony and Reception, Wednesday, Jan. 29. This event is part of a new student initiative, one of several recently established by Dean Achille Messac to encourage student research and reward their accomplishments. “It is truly exciting to see…

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…

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…

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…

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…
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…