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ISE Student Selected for Congressional Internship
Elliott Flaggs has been selected for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation/Wal-Mart Emerging Leaders Internship Program. The emerging leaders program is designed to give students internship opportunities within the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches of the Federal government. Elliott will be representing Congressman Bennie Thompson’s District, Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee. Elliott was honored with…
SE Grad Student Receives SMART Scholarship
Jackson Rice, an ISE graduate student advised by Dr. Burak Eksioglu, is the recipient of the Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship from the Department of Defense. Jackson received one of approximately 100 awards from a pool of 1,500 applicants. The scholarship includes annual stipend, full tuition, book allowance, health insurance, paid summer…
ISE and CAVS Helping to Improve Prospective Automotive Plant Sites
Professors Burak Eksioglu, Sandra Eksioglu, and Mingzhou Jin of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) are Co-Principal Investigators with Clay Walden and Steve Puryear from CAVS Extension of a $131,000 grant from the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT). Their goal is to assist MDOT with preliminary site planning for prospective automotive manufacturing plants….
ISE and CAVS Helping Iowa to Build Virtual Soldier
Dr. Kari Babski-Reeves, Assistant Professor of ISE, is co-principal investigator on a project entitled “Validation of Optimization-Based Formulations and Performance of Dynamic Human Models: A comparison of real and simulated design assessments”. This $1.2 million CAVS initiated project is being performed in conjunction with the University of Iowa’s Virtual Soldier Research program for the U.S….
ISE Professors Determine True Value of Outsourcing
Dr. Burak Eksioglu, Assistant Professor of ISE, is principal investigator of a grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration to study aspects of the furniture industry in Mississippi. The $62,000 grant was facilitated by MSU’s Franklin Furniture Institute directed by Dr. Steve Taylor. Dr. Eksioglu and co-principal investigators Dr. Jilei Zhang from Forest Products, and…
ISE Student Takes 1st Place at IIE Conference
MSU industrial and systems engineering senior, Brian Porter, won 1st place in the Student Technical Paper Competition during the Institute of Industrial Engineers Region 3 student conference held in Orlando, Florida on March 1-4. The Region 3 is composed of 16 universities in the southeastern United States including Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Florida,…
ISE Professor Honored by Academy of Distinguished Teachers
Dr. Stan Bullington was selected by a committee of engineering faculty and students as an inaugural inductee into the Bagley College of Engineering Academy of Distinguished Teachers. His selection for this significant distinction was based on the following criteria: –Outstanding teachers engage students in the learning process and motivate students to succeed in the classroom…
An ISE Trailblazer from an MSU Family of Trailblazers
Dr. Jessica Oswalt Matson is the 2007 Distinguished Fellow of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Jessica has had a very honorable career since receiving her Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Mississippi State in 1975. She is a trailblazer from an MSU family of trailblazers. Jessica’s father, Professor Jesse Oswalt, blazed an exciting new trail…
ISE is Top Engineering Alumnus of the Year
Franklin Myers is the 2007 Bagley College of Engineering Alumnus of the Year. The 2007 Bagley College of Engineering Alumnus of the Year received a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering at MSU in 1974. He also holds a juris doctorate with honors from the University of Mississippi School of Law. He currently serves as senior…
ISEs on Congressional Internships
Sara Morison’s congressional internship with Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran’s office involved getting out of her comfort zone, regularly helping people she’s never seen. It also involved sharing a cafeteria with presidential candidates and meeting Angelina Jolie. Morison – a Mandeville, Louisiana, native and industrial and systems engineering major set to graduate in December – interned…