Awards & Recognition - Electrical & Computer Engineering - Bagley College of Engineering - Page 10
Two Graduate Students Receive Awards to Attend APEC
Mark Didat and Kazi Nishat Tasnim, two graduate students in Mississippi State University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, were selected to receive assistance for the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) in 2022. The two received the Student Attendance Support award for up to $1,000 for expenses related to attending APEC, which is the leading…
Zhao Receives IEEE PES Chapter Outstanding Volunteer Award
Dr. Junbo Zhao, an assistant professor in Mississippi State University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was awarded the 2021 IEEE PES Outstanding Chapter Volunteer Award. This honor, awarded by each chapter, allows for the recognition of a volunteer’s contributions. The Mississippi chapter recognized his service of promoting activities, increasing visibility and membership, and educating…
Peng Wins MSU Graduate Student Research Award
Ms. Yehong Peng, ECPE Ph.D student was awarded the first prize in the engineering category for her poster presentation in the 2021 MSU Graduate Student Research Symposium for her presentation titled, “Smart Partitioning based Fully Distributed AC Optimal Power Flow.” Peng describes her research as the optimization of bulk power systems operation. As today’s…
ECE’s Inaugural Research Symposium
Friday, October 15, the ECE Graduate Committee hosted it’s Inaugural ECE Research Symposium. The ECE Graduate Committee would like to announce that the Best Presentation award goes to Mr. Amine Taoudi for his presentation entitled “Design and optimization of a hybrid electric vehicle with energy efficient longitudinal control and bio-inspired trajectory planning and tracking.” He…
Luo receives NSF grant
Yu Luo, assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering (ECE) department at the Mississippi State University, recently secured a grant from the National Science Foundation to study Internet of Things (IoT). According to Statista, the number IoT connected devices worldwide will be 38.6 billion by 2025. IoT involves a larger number of sensors, actuators, and…
ECE Faculty Members Awarded Grant to Assist Transfer Students
Dr. Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, an associate professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), and her team were recently awarded a grant through the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help improve graduation outcomes for engineering students. The $1.48 million grant, titled Improving Engineering Transfer Success through Early Advising and Purposeful Community-Building, will provide scholarships, faculty mentoring, and…
Zhao, Ye, and Collaborators Awarded Best Paper at IEEE IAS I&CPS Asia
Dr. Junbo Zhao, of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), along with Ph.D. student Ketian Ye and colleagues Dr. Nan Duan from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Dr. Daniel Adrian Maldonado from Argonne National Laboratory, won the best student paper award at the IEEE IAS Industrial & Commercial Power System Asia 2021…
ECE Graduate Student Wins NASA FINESST Grant
Dylan Boyd, a graduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), was recently awarded funding through Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST). Dylan’s research was one of only 58 proposals selected out of 351 submissions for funding in the Earth Science Division and 835 total proposals. The project will be…