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Tommy Thompson named 2019 BCoE Distinguished Fellow
Congratulations to Tommy Thompson who was named 2019 Bagley College of Engineering Distinguished Fellow. Tommy Thompson received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 2005. He is currently the vice president of engineering for Goodnight Midstream, a private company specializing in water infrastructure. During his career in the oil and gas industry, he has served as…
Two mechanical engineering students join Bagley College of Engineering Hall of Fame
Congratulations to Penelope Dao, mechanical engineering senior, and Morgan Green, mechanical engineering master’s student, who were inducted into the 2019 Bagley College of Engineering Student Hall of Fame. The Bagley College Student Hall of Fame was established in 2007 to highlight students who display high academic achievement and exemplary leadership skills while engaging in internships,…
ME senior earns recognition from statewide organization
Congratulations to mechanical engineering senior, Zachary Corey, who has been awarded a Mississippi Engineering Society (MES) Scholarship. This program is designed to provide financial assistance to advanced engineering students who are pursuing an engineering degree from an accredited engineering program from a Mississippi Institution of Higher Learning. Students selected to receive the scholarships were honored…
ME Undergraduate Student presented a paper at NETS 2019
Jacob Easley, a mechanical engineering junior, presented a paper at the 2019 Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space (NETS) held in Richland, WA from February 25-28, 2019. The paper was entitled “Considerations for Closed-Loop Brayton Power Cycle for Nuclear Thermal Rocket with Decay Heat.” Jacob had the opportunity to do research on nuclear thermal propulsion…
ME Ph.D. student received the ORED BCoE graduate student research award
Congratulations to Ge He, ME Ph.D. student, who was selected to receive the 2019 ORED BCoE Graduate Student Research Award. Ge enrolled in our Ph.D. program in January of 2016, and since then he has been working with Dr. Yucheng Liu to investigate the high strain rate performance of fiber reinforced composite materials and develop…
ME Department in the top 25 of the NSF R&D Expenditures Ranking
In a recently released report, the National Science Foundation ranked our Mechanical Engineering department 25th in research expenditures among 277 Mechanical Engineering Departments in the U.S. The total research and development activity of the ME department for fiscal year 2017 was $13.44MM. The ME department has been ranked in the top 25 for three consecutive years.