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ISE Student wins Spirit of State 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…

April 16, 2010


2010 J. Ron Walsh Outstanding Faculty and Student Awards

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…

March 26, 2010


ISE Professor and Student Win Best Paper Award

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.”…

June 26, 2009


Undergraduate Enhancement Projects Earn Students National Acclaim

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…

June 10, 2009


An ISE Students Receives Spirit of State Honors

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…

May 15, 2009


Local Students Awarded National Scholarships

Four Mississippi State students will face the next school year with a little less financial worry weighing them down. Each has earned a $2,000 scholarship from the world’s largest engineering honor society. Two of the students were from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. The Tau Beta Pi scholarships were each funded by different…

April 29, 2009


MSU Announces New Members of Engineering Honor Society

More than 30 Mississippi State students and two university faculty members are 2009 spring initiates of Tau Beta Pi international engineering honor society. Out of that group four were Industrial and Systems Engineering students. Founded in 1885 at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, the organization now is based at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Over the…

April 22, 2009


Dad and Department Head Ensure Future

Brooks Davis persevered and survived. He is a college transfer success story. At 18 years old, he enrolled in college right out of high school. The stressors he felt were not atypical of most college freshmen. Every year, more than 380,000 students drop out of college because of a multitude of stressors, including juggling finances,…

April 2, 2009


Two ISE Students Win National Honor Society Award of Excellence Scholarships

Industrial and Systems Engineering students have claimed two of this year’s eight Alpha Pi Mu National Awards of Excellence that recognize academic achievement, leadership and well-rounded interests. Seniors Carl Morris and Martha “Missie” Smith have both maintained perfect 4.0 grade-point averages while balancing a full slate of extracurricular activities. “People are shocked to learn that…

March 14, 2009


2009 J. Ron Walsh Outstanding Faculty and Student Awards

Congratulations to the Industrial and Systems Engineering 2009 J. Ron Walsh Outstanding Award winners: Chris Magee – Outstanding Industrial and Systems Engineering Senior Award Arash Salehi – Outstanding Industrial and Systems Engineering M.S. Student Award Ambarish Acharya – Outstanding Industrial and Systems Engineering Ph.D. Student Award Huseyin Tunc – Outstanding Student Research Paper Award Dr….

March 13, 2009