Congratulations to Assistant Professors, Matthew Priddy and Prashant Singh, who received funding from the ORED Undergraduate Research Program. This program provides small grants to MSU faculty to create innovative, faculty-directed research opportunities for talented undergraduate students. Dr. Priddy’s project aims to study additively manufactured (AM) metallic lattice structures and plastic scaffolds by developing finite element (FE) models…
Congratulations to Dr. Alta Knizley, ME Assistant Clinical Professor, and Morgan Green, ME Instructor, who were awarded a grant from the Mississippi Space Grant Consortium (MSSGC) Student Led STEM Activities Program in support of ME student organization, the Mechanical Engineering Ladies Organization (MELO). These funds will be used to support two MELO outreach events in the…
Mississippi State University’s department of mechanical engineering officially unveiled its new student leadership suite on Monday, September 16. Created thanks to a $250,000 donation from GTI, the new Edward “Eddie” Johnston Student Leadership Suite provides meeting and presentation space for mechanical engineering student leaders from groups such as the ME Ambassadors, the American Society of…
Congratulations to Dr. Tonya Stone, Associate Professor and Dr. Oswald Rendon-Herrero Diversity Professorship, who has been selected to participate in the 2019 Symposium: Engineering a World of Difference: Policy and Practice to be held on September 18-21 at Harvard University. This symposium is sponsored by the NSF Broadening Participation in Engineering Program, and it is the 11th…
This summer, Dr. Yucheng Liu visited three higher education and research institutions in China, the School of Aeronautics at Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) in Xi’an, the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, and Yulin Normal University in Yulin. The NPU’s School of Aeronautics ranks No. 1 among all aerospace, aeronautical,…
Congratulations to Dr. Omid Askari, who has been selected to receive a Southeastern Conference (SEC) Visiting Faculty Travel Grant. Dr. Askari will be visiting the Mechanical Engineering (ME) Department and Petersen Research Group (PRG) at Texas A&M University this fall. During his visit, Dr. Askari will meet with faculty, researchers, and students in the ME…
Congratulations to the newest members of the Mechanical Engineering Ambassadors program! Student Ambassadors play an important role at the ME department, working on recruiting efforts, hosting tours to prospective students and visitors, and representing the department at important activities and events. The new members are: Madison Eichelberger (junior) Ashton Brown (senior) Belle Failla (senior) Ben Jones…
Jacob Easley, a mechanical engineering student, presented a paper at the 2019 AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum held in Indianapolis, IN from August 19-22, 2019. The paper was entitled “Additive Manufacturing of Propellant Tank and Structural Supports of CubeSat Cold Gas Propulsion System.” Jacob has been involved in research at the Center for Advanced Vehicular…