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Mago to serve as head of mechanical engineering department

STARKVILLE, Miss. – After more than a decade at Mississippi State, an endowed professor will take the helm of the Bagley College of Engineering’s largest department. Pedro Mago, the Tennessee Valley Authority professor of mechanical engineering, begins his term as head of the department July 1. “Dr. Mago has been highly successful during his career…

June 30, 2014


Dr. Scott Thompson received funding from NSF

Dr. Scott Thompson, an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, in collaboration with Dr. Keisha Walters, an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, has received $350,000 over three years from the National Science Foundation to investigate: “Electricity Generation and Enhanced Heat Transfer via Pulsating Ferro-Nanofluid”.   The award is funded from the Thermal Transport Processes program which is part of…

June 10, 2014


Four ME incoming freshman were selected to receive the first Toyota-Haley Barbour Scholarships

Matthew Murphy, Jose Contreras, Elizabeth Whitehurst, and Madelyn Davis were selected to receive the first Toyota-Haley Barbour Scholarships.   Congratulations to all of them. For more information visit: http://www.msstate.edu/web/media/detail.php?id=6678    

June 5, 2014


Two ME Ph.D. students were awarded the NASA/MSSGC Fellowship

Congratulations to Emily Ledbury and Thomas McIntyre who were awarded the NASA/Mississippi Space Grant Consortium (MSSGC) Fellowship.  Emily is a Ph.D. student working with Dr. Mago on the area of renewable energy and Thomas is a Ph.D. Student working with Dr. Stone on modeling powder metallurgy consolidation processes.

June 5, 2014


ME Graduate Students won the BCoE publication student award in Spring 2014.

Congratulations to Christopher Barrett (Advisor: Dr. El Kadiri), Kyle Johnson (right) (Advisor: Dr. Horstemeyer), and  Joseph Carpenter (left) (Advisor: Dr. Mago) who won the BCoE publication student award in Spring 2014.

May 16, 2014


ME Undergraduate Students received awards at the Bagley Undergraduate Research Poster Competition

Congratulations to James Tobermann, Jonathan Pegues, and Lawrence Levert , ME undergraduate students, who won awards at the first Bagley Undergraduate Research Poster Competition. James Tobermann, Distinguished (Certificate + $300); Poster title: Optimization of a Dual-CHP System Based on Monthly Power-to-Heat Ratio; Advisors: Dr. Alta Knizley and Pedro Mago. Jonathan Pegues, Meritorious (Certificate + $200);…

May 2, 2014


PhD student Christopher Barrett received the 2014 BCoE Graduate Student Research Award

Congratulations to Christopher D. Barrett, who has been selected to receive the 2014 Graduate Student Research Award by the Bagley College of Engineering.  He was recognized at the annual Research Award Banquet on May 1, 2014.  He has also won the publication graduate student award in 2013.  Christopher D. Barrett is working under Dr. Haitham…

May 2, 2014


PhD student Mahmood Mamivand was recognized as the BCoE most distinguished graduate scholar of 2013

Congratulations to Mahmood Mamivand who was recognized as the BC0E most distinguished graduate scholar of 2013.  He is working under Dr. Haitham El Kadiri on phase field simulations of phase transformation occurring in vital nuclear materials.

May 2, 2014


ME Ph.D. Students received awards in Poster Competition

Mahmood Mamivand received a superior award and Kyle Johnson received a distinguished award in the BCOE Spring 2014 Graduate Research Poster Competition.   

May 2, 2014


Srinivasan selected for Central States Section of the Combustion Institute board

    Dr. Kalyan Srinivasan, associate professor in mechanical engineering, has been selected as new member of the Board of Advisors of the Central States Section of the Combustion Institute.

April 10, 2014