STARKVILLE, Miss- Mississippi State University and the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) has earned Verification, Validation, and Accreditation for their fire and smoke simulation model. The model allows officials to simulate fire conditions, enabling them to predict behaviors and develop more efficient emergency procedures to lessen the costs of on-board fires. Developed in conjunction…
Detroit, Mich. – General Motors (GM) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), lead sponsors for the Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility engineering competition, congratulated students from Mississippi State University, who took top honors today at the third annual competition. The Mississippi State team was among 17 universities from across North America that have…
Mississippi State University’s James Worth Bagley College of Engineering wishes to congratulate Doug Hall, of Picayune, Miss., for receiving an Engineering Excellence Scholarship. This award is payable over eight semesters and will combine with Hall’s other scholarships to cover his cost of tuition while at MSU. The James Worth Bagley College of Engineering awards Engineering…
PowderMet is the largest international conference and exhibition of P/M (powder metallurgy) held in North America. This year the conference was held in Denver, CO on May 13-16. Seven employees from Materials Processing Group attended this conference. Also, sixteen CAVS employees wrote 22 papers which covered 12% of total presentation in the conference. Co-authors were…
The Bagley College of Engineering would like to congratulate chemical engineering senior, Jared Fisher, on being accepted to the top chemical engineering Master’s programs in the nation. Fisher received acceptance to Michigan, Georgia Tech, University of California-Berkeley and Northwestern. Fisher has chosen to attend at the University of California-Berkeley beginning in fall 2007. Through the…
Congratulations to computer engineering major, Wesley Holland, for being awarded a three-year Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Holland, 20, is a graduating senior at Mississippi State University. He received the NSF Fellowship after deciding to pursue graduate studies, beginning in fall 2007, for a continued education in computer engineering. Holland plans to…
Adrienne Minerick, Assistant Professor of chemical engineering at Mississippi State University, was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award for her research in dielectrophoresis. The grant amount totals $401,921 and will be officially awarded May 1, 2007. Cornelius F. Ivory, Councilor for the American Electrophoresis Society, in which Minerick is also a member, commented on…
The International Institute for the Science of Sintering (IISS) announced that Dr. Seong Jin Park has been elected as a full member of the institute for his outstanding accomplishments in developing sintering modeling and simulation with material characterization. Dr. Park is working at the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS), Mississippi State University, as Associate…
Dr. Erdem Topsakal, assistant professor at the Bagley College of Engineering, in collaboration with Dr. Elaine C. Moreland, assistant professor at UAB’s department of endocrinology, have been awarded an Innovative Grant of $100,000.00 for one year from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation for research that will result in ways to improve the daily lives of…
Congratulations to Dr. David Thompson, Associate Professor in Aerospace Engineering, on being elevated to the rank of Senior Member in IEEE. Less than 8 percent of the 367,000 membership achieve this level.