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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.
ME Ph.D. student was named the Grand Champion Runner-Up at MSU’s 3MT competition
Tate Fonville, a mechanical engineering doctoral student, is this year’s Grand Champion Runner-Up. His presentation, “A Modular Framework for Robust Helmets,” earned him a $750 prize. Tate, who also holds an MSU bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, has been working on helmet research for nearly two years. Great job Tate!! Peter Ryan (far left), associate…
Convergent Science donated $135,000 worth of software to mechanical engineering
Convergent Science a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) company has donated software licenses, worth $135,000, to the Mechanical Engineering Department at Mississippi State University. The software will be used by Dr. Andrea Strzelec and her students in the Combustion & Reaction Characterization Laboratory. The CONVERGE code is revolutionary in that it eliminates the time intensive grid generation process…