Newsroom | Bagley College of Engineering - Part 21
MSU Bagley College of Engineering honors faculty, staff and students with annual achievement awards
This past semester the MSU Bagley College of Engineering honored eight members of its faculty, staff and students. These annual awards recognize faculty and staff for their accomplishments in the college’s eight departments and multiple research centers. This year’s award recipients are as follows: BCoE Career Winner—Dr. Lesley Strawderman, International Paper Chair, professor, Department of Industrial and…
Student Spotlight: Jenna Oetting
For Mississippi State student Jenna Oetting, time is valuable. It is also strictly scheduled. That’s because the senior is a unique combination of engineering student and student-athlete. Like most traditional students, Oetting attends class five days a week, but while many have part-time jobs outside of school, she practices with the track and field team…
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…