Category: Writing

  • Babski-Reeves named new head of industrial & systems engineering

    Babski-Reeves named new head of industrial & systems engineering

    A well-respected expert in the fields of human factors and ergonomics has been selected as the new department head for industrial & systems engineering within Mississippi State University’s Bagley College of Engineering. Kari Babski-Reeves, a three-time Mississippi State engineering alumna, will officially begin her tenure as department head on July 1, 2020, pending approval of…

  • Computer systems expert named as head of electrical & computer engineering

    Computer systems expert named as head of electrical & computer engineering

    A national leader in computer systems has been chosen as the new department head for electrical & computer engineering within Mississippi State University’s Bagley College of Engineering. Samee Khan will begin his new role as department head on August 1, 2020, pending approval of the State Board of Trustees, Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning. He…

  • N95 masks arrive at area medical centers courtesy of MSU’s aerospace engineering department

    N95 masks arrive at area medical centers courtesy of MSU’s aerospace engineering department

    To help area medical personnel who are combating the spread of the coronavirus, Mississippi State’s Department of Aerospace Engineering this week donated more than 1,000 N95 respirator face masks to two area medical centers. The department gave more than 700 masks to MSU’s Longest Student Health Center and an additional 400 to Starkville’s OCH Regional…

  • Student Profile: Philippe Schicker

    Student Profile: Philippe Schicker

    It’s fair to say that Mississippi State was not exactly on Philippe Schicker’s radar when he started what he calls his American Adventure. A native of Hamburg, Germany, Schicker spent a year as an exchange student at Claremont High School in Claremont, California. He enjoyed it so much he spent the next two years back…

  • Student Profile: Caroline Bearden

    Student Profile: Caroline Bearden

    “Do you know what you’re going to major in?” That simple phrase could very well be the question that incoming freshmen most often hear as they begin university life. For senior industrial engineering major Caroline Bearden, though, it took a few years and a few false starts before she was finally able to answer the…

  • MSU senior named one of the nation’s top engineering students by ASCE

    MSU senior named one of the nation’s top engineering students by ASCE

    Over the course of his four years at Mississippi State University, senior civil engineering major Phong Ly has been no stranger to awards, honors and recognition. Adding to his impressive list of accolades, Ly has been named to the prestigious New Faces of Civil Engineering for 2019 by the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is among…