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ME undergraduate student received the ARF 2015 Exemplary Service Award
Congratulation to Harrison Warren, ME Undergraduate student, who was selected to receive the 2015 MSU Association of Retired Faculty (ARF) Exemplary Service Award in Honor of Dr. Joseph Brown, Retired Professor of Mechanical Engineering. The ceremony was held on December 3 at the Starkville County Club. Dr. Alta Knizley introduced Harrison during the event. Harrison…
Ph.D. Student and MELO President Mary Wilson
Growing up with a family full of passionate fans, Mary Wilson knew from a small age that she would one day become a Mississippi State Bulldog. The native of northeastern Mississippi would get the opportunity to pursue that love, while also recognizing a newfound passion for mechanical engineering. Wilson’s older brother, an MSU engineering alum,…
HPVC team prepares for upcoming season
For the past three years, MSU’s Human Powered Vehicle Challenge team (HPVC) has participated in a national competition hosted by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Preparation is now underway for the team’s fourth season of competition. Each year of competition challenges teams across the nation to engineer an original vehicle that is practical and…
ME Ph.D. student received an ASTM presentation award
M.J. Mahtabi, Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. student, received the ASTM 2015 M.R. “Mitch” Mitchell Best Student Presentation Award in the 2015 ASTM Committee Week, which was held in Tampa, FL from November 15-20. The event was open to graduate and undergraduate students working in the area of fatigue and fracture mechanics. His presentation was on “Mean…
ME alumni shared their industry experience with our ME 1111 class
ME alumni shared their experiences in industry to our Introduction Mechanical Engineering Class. The participants included RC Fron from PACCAR, Kimberly Corbett Jeffares and John Benjamin with Corbett, Legge and Associates, and Andrew Howard with Steel Dynamics. They met on November 16, and their presentations were excellent as was the feedback from our students. Thanks…
ME graduate student was named the Grand Champion at MSU’s 3MT competition
Congratulations to Piyush Porwal, a ME M.S. Student, for wining the Grand Champion Prize for the MSU 3 Minute Thesis Competition on Friday, November 13. He will advance to a Southeastern Conference competition next year. This is the second year in a row that one of our graduate students has won the Grand Champion Prize. Great Job Piyush!!!
ME department kickoffs the “Impact of Engineering Week” Initiative
We are pleased to announce that the Mechanical Engineering department kickoffs this week, November 9 – 13, the first “Impact of Engineering Week” in order to promote awareness and an understanding of the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context. During this week all mechanical engineering undergraduate classes will highlight the role…
Chevron donates $150,000 to MSU/MGCCC engineering program
November 2, 2015 Contact: Allison Matthews STARKVILLE, Miss.—A new bachelor’s degree program in engineering offered through a Mississippi State University and Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College partnership received a $150,000 boost from Chevron today [Nov. 2]. Chevron Pascagoula and Chevron Gulf of Mexico made a joint presentation to support the MSU/MGCCC Engineering on the Coast program….
The MSU Mechanical Engineering Minority Organization (MEMO) will Promote Minority Success in ME
The Mechanical Engineering department is proud to present the Mechanical Engineering Minority Organization (MEMO). This new organization has been recently created by the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Mississippi State University with the support of a group of undergraduate and graduate minority students. MEMO seeks to provide a support-network for minority students in mechanical engineering,…
ME Faculty received research funding from NASA
Dr. Nima Shamsaei, Dr. Steve Daniewicz, and Dr. Scott Thompson, all faculty members within MSU’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, received a research grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to investigate the fatigue behavior of additively-manufactured (AM) Inconel parts. The research specifically focuses on fatigue characterization and fractography as it pertains to Inconel…