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…
Original article can be found here STARKVILLE, Miss.—The Mississippi State University-led Northern Gulf Institute is receiving up to $86 million to continue its strategic research in the Gulf of Mexico. The funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will support the institute’s operations and research for the next five years. A NOAA Cooperative Institute,…
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…
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…
Dr. Qian (Jenny) Du received the 2020-21 Career Award from the Bagley College of Engineering. It is the highest award in the College for faculty who have excelled in their teaching, research, and/or service for an extended period of time. Dr. Du joined the ECE Department in 2004. She is a fellow of SPIE (International…
Congratulations to ECE Assistant Professor Ryan Green and Assistant Clinical Professor Umar Iqbal on receiving 2021 Outstanding Teaching Awards from the Mississippi State chapters of National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and Increasing Minority Access to Graduate Education (IMAGE). Angela Verdell, advisor for both groups and Director of Diversity Programs and Student Development in the…
Dr. Jenny Du, Graduate Program Coordinator and Professor for ECE, was recognized as one of the 24 graduates of the university’s spring 2021 Faculty Leadership Development Institute. The leadership program is sponsored by the office of Research and Economic Development and the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President. The program includes lessons on…
Congratulations to the ECE students in Intro to ECE Design and Senior Design II who placed in the top three on their design projects. The Intro to ECE Design II class is generally taken by our ECE students in their second term at MSU. These students spend a semester working through the design process to…