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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…
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…