Out of 22 students from across the university to be given the 2011 Spirit of State Award, Nibeer Dewan, a junior in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, is recognized as having made exceptional personal contributions to student life at Mississippi State. Nibeer has been involved in Mississippi State activities from the moment he…
Ambarish Acharya is the winner of the INFORMS Judith Leibman Award for his efforts on behalf of the Mississippi State Student Chapter. He was presented the award during the INFORMS Annual Conference in November 2010 in Austin, Texas. The Judith Liebman Award recognizes outstanding student volunteers who have been “moving spirits” in their universities, their…
Industrial and Systems Engineering student Missie Smith was honored with the Bagley College of Engineering Outstanding ISE Senior Award. Other ISE students honored as top seniors were: Brittany Kolb, Glenda Young, Ginny Sewall, Colleen Hughes, Justin Criddle, Anna Campbell, and Paige Draper.
By Bonnie Coblentz MSU Ag Communications MISSISSIPPI STATE – Mississippi State University engineering students helped analyze work flow and equipment performance to document the need for new animal cage washing facilities, which were paid for by a federal grant of nearly $300,000. Lucy Senter, director of Laboratory Animal Resources and the university veterinarian for MSU,…
Industrial and Systems Engineering students, Abby Lammons and McNeill Williford, competed nationally in 2010 to win Alpha Pi Mu Industrial Engineering Honor Society National Awards. McNeill was honored with The John L. Imhoff Scholarship Award, which the society awards to a single student. Abby was one of eight students nationally to win the society’s Award…
Out of 22 students from across the university to be recognized with the 2010 Spirit of State Award, Swati Desai, a senior in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, is said to have “played a major role in promoting diversity at MSU.” As a freshman, she founded Nach, an Indian dance group that has…
Ambarish Acharya, Dr. Lesley Strawderman, Dr. Sandra Eksioglu, Lucas McDowell, Nirathi Keerthi Govindu, Abby Lammons, Tugce MartaganCongratulations to the Industrial and Systems Engineering 2010 J. Ron Walsh Outstanding Award winners: Abby Lammons – Outstanding Industrial and Systems Engineering Senior Award Lucas McDowell and Tugce Martagan – Outstanding Industrial and Systems Engineering M.S. Student Award Nirathi…
ISE’s Dr. Lesley Strawderman and Arash Salehi, and Chemical Engineering’s Dr. Bill Elmore won 2nd place honors in the Best Papers American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) First-year Programs Division Awards at the Austin 2009 conference. The title of the award winning paper is “Exploring the Impact of First-year Engineering Student Perceptions on Student Efficacy.”…
Efforts to enhance their undergraduate experience have earned some Bagley College of Engineering (BCoE) students national acclaim. Two student teams placed in the national Engineering Education Service Center’s (EESC) 2009 Engineering Curriculum Contest using projects they developed for the BCoE’s technical writing course. A first for the EESC, the competition challenged teams to develop hands-on…
Jenna Owen, a freshman industrial and systems engineering student, was one of five in the Bagley College of Engineering (BCoE) to receive recognition as 2009 Spirit of State award winner. Owen has many accomplishments to her name. She is president of the Freshmen Engineering Student Council, as well as a BCoE ambassador and Industrial and…