Newsroom | Bagley College of Engineering - Part 161
NASA recognizes MSU pair for aircraft engine research success
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Two Mississippi State scientists are receiving national recognition from NASA for devising computer software that is saving aircraft engine manufacturers millions of dollars in new engine developments. Professors Jenping Chen and J. Mark Janus of the university’s ERC/Computational Simulation and Design Center won NASA’s 2004 Software of the Year Award in their research category…
MSU’s Thompson Elected Fellow of National Aeronautics Institute
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Longtime Mississippi State aerospace engineering professor Joe F. Thompson is a newly elected Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. A William L. Giles Distinguished Professor in Aerospace Engineering, the Grenada native and university alumnus will be inducted formally during the AIAA’s annual Fellows Dinner and awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., next…
MSU’s Thompson Elected Fellow of National Aeronautics Institute
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Longtime Mississippi State aerospace engineering professor Joe F. Thompson is a newly elected Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. A William L. Giles Distinguished Professor in Aerospace Engineering, the Grenada native and university alumnus will be inducted formally during the AIAA’s annual Fellows Dinner and awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., next…
Vizzini Elected Fellow of American Society for Composites
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Mississippi State aerospace engineering department head Tony Vizzini is a new Fellow of the American Society for Composites. An expert in composite structures who became university department leader in August 2003, Vizzini has been a member of the ASC since 1987. He earlier served the organization as membership secretary for two years and currently…
MSU Engineering Student Receives ASME’s Gracik Scholarship
STARKVILLE, Miss.–A Mississippi State senior is among 18 national recipients of a 2004 John and Elsa Gracik Scholarship from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Justin M. Crapps, a mechanical engineering major from Florence, Ala., was awarded the $1,500 scholarship during the recent ASME annual summer meeting. He is an MSU Dean’s Scholar and the…
MSU Among Nation’s Top 25 in Engineering Research
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Mississippi State now ranks 24th among the nation’s universities in engineering research and development expenditures, according to a new report from the National Science Foundation. MSU climbed from 32nd in engineering research in the previous edition of the NSF publication, “Academic Research and Development Expenditures.” The report released July 30 is based on data…
MSU-Developed Humidity Sensors Successfully Tested at Smithsonian
STARKVILLE, Miss.–A Mississippi State research unit is using some tools of the future—fiber optic humidity sensors—to help preserve the nation’s past. The university’s Diagnostic Instrumentation and Analysis Laboratory—known as DIAL—recently completed a detailed evaluation of the performance of four moisture sensors that underwent long-term testing at the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of Natural History. Developed by…
Reese Selected for National Academic Advising Award
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Mississippi State computer science and engineering professor Donna S. Reese is receiving a national award for university faculty academic advising. Reese will formally accept the Outstanding Advising Award of the National Academic Advising Association in October during the organization’s 2004 meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. In addition to teaching and research responsibilities, Reese serves as…
MSU Student Selected for National Science Foundation Fellowship
STARKVILLE, Miss.–A Mississippi State electrical engineering student is the winner of a 2004 National Science Foundation graduate fellowship and will begin developing a research project this summer. Doctoral student John E. Ball is among approximately 900 selected for the highly competitive three-year awards, which fund research and education in most fields of science and engineering….
MSU Administrator Being Honored for ‘Uncertainty Analysis’ Work
STARKVILLE, Miss.–The head of Mississippi State’s mechanical engineering department is receiving a prestigious national award for his contributions in experimental uncertainty analysis, which measures the “goodness” of a test result. W. Glenn Steele, also one of the university’s William L. Giles Distinguished Professors, will receive a 2004 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Ground Testing…