Recognition - Industrial & Systems Engineering - Bagley College of Engineering - Page 8
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.”…
ISE Student Wins Poster Competition at Conference
ISE’s Ambarish Acharya took 1st place honors in the student poster competition at the Annual Southern BioProducts and Renewable Energy Conference hosted by the Mississippi Biomass Council. The title of the poster is “Supply Chain Designs for Cellulosic Ethanol: A Study of Mississippi.” The research involves the design of efficient supply chains for cellulosic ethanol…
ISE Professor Elected to IIE Board of Directors
ISE’s Dr. Burak Eksioglu has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Operations Research Division of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. The Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) is dedicated to the support of the industrial engineering profession and individuals involved with improving quality and productivity. The members of the Operations Research Division apply…
ISE Professor Elected to ASEE Division Board of Directors
ISE’s Dr. Lesley Strawderman has been elected to the Industrial Engineering Division Board of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) as secretary/treasurer. The Industrial Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education is dedicated to promoting and improving engineering and technology education, especially as it pertains to the field of industrial engineering.
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…
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…
An IE Wins the First BCoE Engineering Service Award
Glenn Dennis, Quality Manufacturing Laboratory and Manufacturing Process Improvement Manager at MSU’s CAVS Extension Center, was presented the first Engineering Service Award given by the Bagley College of Engineering (BCoE). Dennis is a 1974 graduate of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. The award was established to honor those who contribute to the outreach…
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…
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…
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,…