global engineering leadership | Bagley College of Engineering - Part 8
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 Scientist Urges Biomass Development to Replace Petroleum
STARKVILLE, Miss.–A Mississippi State research scientist is urging Congress to consider plant and animal materials as a replacement for dwindling supplies of petroleum in the future production of fuels and other important chemicals. “With our worldwide petroleum reserves playing out their capability to support industrial activity over the next 100 years, new options for future…
Bagley College expands honors program opportunities
Mississippi State engineering students who want to extend University Honors Program participation into their junior and senior years now may do so by performing additional work in regular upper-level courses. Bagley College of Engineering departments are adding class sections that will allow upper-level students to earn honors credit by completing additional assignments such as writing…