Newsroom | Bagley College of Engineering - Part 27
Student Spotlight: Zachary Poindexter
You can’t replace home, not even if you tried. That’s the conclusion Mississippi State senior Zachary Poindexter has come to as his college career draws to a close. Initially setting his sights on a different major and different university altogether, it was two classes in high school that changed his life’s trajectory and helped the…
MSU continues support of federal cyber workforce with $4.1 million in new NSF CyberCorps Funding
Bagley College of Engineering students place in the 2023 American Society of Civil Engineers Gulf Coast Symposium
Concrete cornhole, steel bridge aesthetics and surveying were just a few of the competitions Mississippi State University civil engineering students placed in at the 2023 American Society of Civil Engineers Gulf Coast Symposium. The symposium, held at the University of South Alabama on March 9-11, allowed students to develop their leadership skills further while engaging…
MSU mechanical engineering assistant professor awarded TVA grant
MSU mechanical engineering assistant professor Like Li has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the Tennessee Valley Authority to design, develop and demonstrate a lab-scale thermal energy storage reactor. “This is an excellent opportunity for my research group to design, build up, and test a kW-scale packed-bed chemical reactor in our lab,” Li said. “We…
MSU Department of Computer Science and Engineering professor wins second Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers award
It’s a rare achievement to receive a once-in-a-career award and even rarer still to receive two once-in-a-career awards, but that’s exactly what Mississippi State University’s Ed Swan did this past academic year. Swan, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, was awarded the Visualization and Graphics Technical Community (VGTC) Virtual Reality Service…
MSU chemical engineering graduate named 2022 Curt Modtland Award Winner
Mark “Tony” Robertson, a 1990 MSU chemical engineering alumni, has been awarded the Curt Modtland Award for Excellence in Engineering Fundamentals at Dow. The annual award is given to the Dow employee who most demonstrates the importance of technical excellence in Dow’s success and fosters its development. The award was named after Curt Modtland, a…
Mississippi State student organizations hold annual Catalpa Creek Stream Cleanup
The Catalpa Creek Watershed is cleaner thanks to numerous organizations participating in the creek’s annual cleanup this past March. Once a year student organizations come together to remove garbage from the creek. The Bagley College of Engineering student group Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), spearheaded the cleanup with support from CHEVRON and the Bagley…
Student Spotlight: Yasmin Chambers
Mississippi State student Yasmin Chambers understands the importance of hard work and challenging herself. An athlete all her life, the computer engineering major is now applying those same fundamentals to her education and her military career. “I had offers to play basketball in college, but as a senior in high school, I was burnt out…