Newsroom | Bagley College of Engineering - Part 166
NSF fellowship recipient
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 awarded NSF CAREER Award
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…
MSU faculty elected full member of the IISS
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…
MSU faculty awarded grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
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…
Dr. David Thompson Senior Member of IEEE
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.
Schulz named Fellow of leading scientific society
STARKVILLE, Miss.–Mississippi State engineering Dean Kirk Schulz is a 2006 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society. A professor of chemical engineering and dean of the university’s Bagley College of Engineering for the past two years, Schulz is among 449 AAAS Fellows honored for their scientifically…
Five MSU students honored as delegates for international convention
The Foundation for Metal Casting Education (FEF), based in Schaumburg, Ill., held its 59th annual College Industry Conference in Chicago November 16-17. The conference brought together 177 industry executives, 91 student delegates, 31 key professors and numerous university administrators. In attendance, representing Mississippi State University, was Cornelia Hayes, Sr. Mechanical Engineering; Robert Neel, Sr. Mechanical…
MSU’s iGEM team shines among the world’s best and brightest
During June of 2006, the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department introduced its newest advancement to ABE students, synthetic biology. A team of graduate and undergraduate students came together, with an assortment of engineering faculty, to prepare for the iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) competition at M.I.T. Cambridge, Mass., where the team was awarded Honorable Mention….
$441,000 grant approved for ISE research at MSU
The Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) Department at Mississippi State University is being awarded a $441,000 grant to fund research on a new security prototype system for barge networks. The grant was sponsored through the United States Department of Homeland Security to help develop monitoring systems for hazardous cargo movement on barges. The research is…
CAVS professor keynote speaker for Powder Metallurgy Conference in Spain
In July 2006, Spain held the first ever Spanish Metallurgy Conference in Madrid at the University of Carlos III de Madrid and at Santander. In attendance was Bagley College of Engineering researcher and CAVS Director, Randall German. The conference was broken into two different conferences, one at Santander for graduate students, faculty and new researchers,…