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ME Ph.D. student received the ORED BCoE graduate student research award
Congratulations to Mohammad “MJ” Mahtabi, ME Ph.D. student, who was selected to receive the ORED BCoE Graduate Student Research Award. MJ’s research focuses on fatigue and fracture behavior of metallic materials, and ranges from experimental studies to molecular simulations under the direction of Dr. Tonya Stone. MJ has published 7 journal articles and a book…
ME senior earns recognition from statewide organization
Morgan Green, a mechanical engineering student in the Bagley College of Engineering, was recently honored as Mississippi State’s Outstanding Engineering Senior by the Mississippi Engineering Society. Green, an Olive Branch native, will graduate from MSU in May 2017 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Upon graduation, she plans to attend graduate school to…
ME Department climbs to 24 in NSF research rankings
In a recently released report, the National Science Foundation ranked our Mechanical Engineering department 24th in research expenditures among 271 Mechanical Engineering Departments in the U.S. The total research and development activity of the ME department for fiscal Year 2015 was $12.6MM. The ME department was ranked 27th last year and 33rd the year before that. More information can…
Two ME students selected to be in the 2016-17 Provost Scholars class
Congratulations to James Grant, a freshman in mechanical engineering, and Jacob N. Easley, a sophomore in mechanical engineering and physics, who were selected to be in the prestigious 2016-17 Provost Scholars class. More information can be found here President Mark E. Keenum (back row, center) and Provost and Executive Vice President Judy Bonner (back row,…
ME graduate student received an ASTM presentation award
Rakish Shrestha, mechanical engineering graduate student, received the ASTM 2016 M.R. “Mitch” Mitchell Best Student Presentation Award in the 2016 ASTM Committee Week, which was held in Orlando FL. The event was open to graduate and undergraduate students working in the area of fatigue and fracture mechanics. His presentation was on “Fatigue Modeling of Polyether…
Bhushan named CAVS associate director
Congratulations to Shanti Bhushan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, who has been appointed Associate Director for the Center for Advanced Vehicle Systems (CAVS).
2015 Mechanical Engineering Faculty Awards Recipients
This year, the mechanical engineering department established a new award program to motivate and to recognize mechanical engineering faculty members with a superior record of research and teaching in the department. The awards include: Junior Faculty Outstanding Research Award, Senior Faculty Outstanding Research Award, and Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award. Dr. Alta Knizley, ME Instructor, was…
ME undergraduate student selected to receive the Dr. Pepper Education Abroad Awards
Mechanical engineering launches ME Ambassadors program
The mechanical engineering department within Mississippi State’s Bagley College of Engineering has established a new student liaison program, selecting six students to represent the department for the fall 2016 semester. Known as the ME Ambassadors, the group will serve as student representatives for the mechanical engineering department in meetings with faculty and with the Mechanical…
ME welcomes new faculty members
The Mechanical Engineering department welcomes Assistant Professor Dr. Omid Askari, Visiting Assistant Professor Dr. Matthew Priddy, and Instructor Emily Spayde to the faculty. Omid Askari received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from University of Karaj and Sharif University of Technology in Iran, in 2005 and 2007, respectively. He was employed as a research…