Newsroom | Bagley College of Engineering - Part 23

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…

World Food Prize program at MSU propels high school student toward prestigious USDA fellowship

Porter, ABE Ph.D. alumna, takes role as American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers president

Letter from the Dean: July 2023

Dear Faculty, Staff, Students, and Friends of the Bagley College of Engineering: I hope your summer continues to go well. Here are some quick updates about the college: I had the opportunity travel to attend a portion of the EcoCAR EV Challenge Year 1 Competition presentations. The Mississippi State team did very well and won…

Alumni Spotlight: Steve Creech

For NASA engineer and Mississippi State alum Steve Creech, where you begin is just as important as where you end up. He believes you can start your journey before knowing your destination, especially in your career. “I didn’t know I would end up doing what I do. I don’t think you have to know. Just…

MSU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering student project helps people to see the world in technicolor

A group of students participating in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s senior design course hopes to make the world more colorful for those with colorblindness. An estimated 300 million people worldwide live with colorblindness, including Mississippi State electrical engineer major Zach Scarbrough. Together with his group members Cameron Bass, Xen Gaerlan, Joe Kennedy…