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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…
Three mechanical engineering professors recognized
Three mechanical engineering faculty members at Mississippi State University were recently honored with endowed positions from the Bagley College of Engineering. Associate professor Heejin Cho received the Tennessee Valley Authority Professorship in Energy Systems and the Environment, while associate professor Tonya Stone was awarded the newly-created Dr. Oswald Rendon-Herrero Diversity Professorship. Additionally, associate professor Yucheng…
Lei Chen received funding from NSF
Congratulations to Dr. Lei Chen, Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering, who received $204,696 from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) to conduct research on “Tuning Properties of Bi-Continuous Piezoelectric Composites via Additive Manufacturing.” Chen joined the ME department in August 2015 and has already received several competitive external funding awards to…
ME Department welcomes new faculty members this Fall
The Mechanical Engineering department welcomes Assistant Professor Andrea Strzelec, Associate Professor Hongjoo Rhee, and Assistant Clinical Professor, Emily Spayde. Dr. Andrea Strzelec joined Mississippi State University as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering in 2018. Her Combustion & Reaction Characterization Laboratory is located at the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS). Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University, after post…
Stone selected to participate in the 2018 Symposium: Engineering a World of Difference: Convergence in Manufacturing
Congratulations to Dr. Tonya Stone who has been selected to participate in the 2018 Symposium: Engineering a World of Difference: Convergence in Manufacturing to be held on September 26-29 at the University of Michigan. This symposium is sponsored by the NSF Broadening Participation in Engineering Program, and it is the 10th offering in the Minority…
Dr. Rogelio Luck retires from the Mechanical Engineering Department
Congratulations to our colleague and friend Dr. Rogelio Luck on his retirement after 29 years of dedicated service to the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Bagley College of Engineering at MSU. A retirement reception to honor Dr. Luck was held on August 15. Below are some pictures from his retirement celebration. The ME faculty, staff,…
Dr. Yucheng Liu awarded tenure
Congratulations to Dr. Yucheng Liu, ME Associate Professor, who received tenure, effective Fall 2018. Dr. Liu’s research has focused on the areas of multiscale material modeling and simulation, high strain rate performance of materials, vehicle systems design and analysis, and hydropower and wave energy technology. He has published more than 180 peer-reviewed publications, including more than…