A Mississippi State graduate student in industrial and systems engineering is the winner of an international professional society’s 2006 Student Award for Excellence. Kandace C. Noah of Houston, Texas, who is working on a master’s degree in the university’s Bagley College of Engineering, will receive the award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers during the…
A Mississippi State faculty member is serving a three-year term on an editorial board that reviews and approves media policies for the global Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Noel Schulz, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the university, recently was elected to the IEEE Press Board during a meeting of the…
Mississippi State industrial engineering professor Allen Greenwood is a newly elected member of the Global Engineering Education Exchange’s executive committee. “Global E3 is a great organization and I look forward to working with them to enhance the study-abroad opportunities for engineering students,” said Greenwood, who also is coordinator of international programs for the university’s Bagley…
A Mississippi State chemical engineering doctoral student from Cordova, Tenn., is being recognized by a national organization for his research paper on alternative energy sources. In May, Darrell L. Sparks will receive the 2006 Outstanding Student Abstract Award of the American Oil Chemists Society. His report is titled “Modeling the Solubility of Oleic, Pelargonic and…
The director of Mississippi State’s Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems is the recipient of a prestigious international research award from a society in Japan. Rand German received the Award for Distinguished Achievement in Research from the Japan Society for Powder and Powder Metallurgy during a recent formal ceremony in the East China Sea coastal city…
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Mississippi State aerospace engineering students soon will benefit from $50,000 in funding received from Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems. Representatives from the Los Angeles-based aerospace design company presented the check Friday [Nov. 11] to Kirk Schulz, dean of the Bagley College of Engineering, and aerospace engineering department head Tony Vizzini. The majority of the funds…
Starkville, Miss. – One of the Bagley College of Engineering’s staff members was chosen to serve on the Education Committee for the Collaborative Large-Scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research (CLEANER) Program. The Coordinator for Educational Outreach & Student Programs, Emma Seiler, will attend and participate in the first organizational CLEANER all-hands meeting from Sept….
September 6, 2005 A Mississippi State biological engineering major from Ocean Springs is receiving a national scholarship designed to promote training in oceanic and atmospheric science, research, technology, and education. University honors student Claire L. Fellman has been awarded a 2005 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship, which provides up to $8,000…
STARKVILLE, Miss.–The National Center for Intermodal Transportation–an academic partnership between the University of Denver and Mississippi State University–is receiving a $2.4 million federal grant. NCIT officials said the funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation will be equally shared by both institutions for transportation research and education projects over the next four years. “We have…
August 15, 2005 Recent Mississippi State graduate Angela M. Spence of Brandon is receiving this year’s Sigma Gamma Tau/Ammon S. Andes Award, which recognizes the top U.S. university aerospace engineering major. Spence, who received her May degree summa cum laude, was chosen from among regional winners of the aerospace engineering honor society’s annual undergraduate awards…