Newsroom | Bagley College of Engineering - Part 163
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…
MSU Xipiter earns top ten finish in international competition
STARKVILLE, Miss. – Mississippi State University’s unmanned aerial systems (UAS) team landed in the top ten at an international competition. Team Xipiter finished tenth overall out of 26 teams that were able to fly during the two-day Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s (AUVSI) student competition. The team finished sixth in flight and placed tenth…
Student rocketry team captures success in NASA competition
STARKVILLE—Mississippi State’s Space Cowboys rocketry team blasted past the competition in this year’s NASA-sponsored University Student Launch Initiative (USLI). The team finished second overall out of a field of 40 teams. It also earned the Best Science Mission Directorate Payload Award and an honorable mention for their education engagement activities. “Over the last several years,…
Mississippi State design team builds ‘formula’ for success
STARKVILLE, Miss. – Mississippi State University’s Formula team earned a personal-best finish in a collegiate competition at the Michigan International Speedway. The team placed 34th in a field of 109 teams, from four continents, in an annual design competition sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers International. A three-day event, the competition tests each team’s…