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PAWS ON THE PAVEMENT – A Look at How Bulldog Leadership Shapes Mississippi’s Transportation Network

PAWS ON THE PAVEMENT On the MDOT payroll, McGrath has a team of approximately 3,400 individuals to help make sure folks in the Magnolia State can get from point A to point B, safely, reliably and in a reasonable amount of time. Among those are Bulldogs in prominent leadership positions, including Lisa Hancock, deputy executive…

April 1, 2016


CEE Alumni Kieu-Anh T. Tran was recognized by the Alumni Association when presented with the 2015 Distinguished Service Award.

Kieu-Anh T. Tran of Tucker, Georgia, is a dominant Maroon and White presence in the busy Atlanta area. Tran uses the 1996 civil engineering degree she earned from Mississippi State as vice president, engineer and project manager at Q Solutions Inc. She has been an officer in the Alumni Association’s Central Mississippi and Nashville, Tennessee…

April 1, 2016


Dr. John Ramirez-Avila has been selected to receive the 2016 Chi Epsilon Excellence in Teaching Award for the Southwest District.

March 22, 2016


Congratulations to Jeremiah Glasz for winning AGC’s Bruce Tucker Memorial Scholarship Trust.

March 22, 2016


CEE Graduate Student Samantha Frederick was named the winner of the Chi Epsilon 2016 National Graduate Fellowship.

March 22, 2016


Congratulations to those CE Students who made the Dean or President’s List (Fall 15)

Dean’s List Fall 2015 Bridget Abadie Hannah Ainsworth Anna Baglan Eliza Bigham Daniel Blackburn Alexander Bohannon Arman Borazjani Jessica Bullock Hunter Card Jay Coleman Brandon Crane Bennett Douglas Jonathan Drannan Lemuel Dunn Charles Easley Harris Ellsworth Amber Frederick Jeremy Fuller Tyler Hassell Stewart Inman Dylan Jenkins Claire Kendall Caleb LaCombe Jing Liao Victoria Malley Dylan Miley…

January 20, 2016


How Engineers Can Adapt Infrastructure Design for a Changing Climate feat. Farshid Vahedifard

Now in its fourth year of severe drought, California is juggling with knives. Groundwater levels are falling. Seawater intrusion threatens drinking water supplies. Sinking land and erosion expose structural vulnerabilities. But drought alone does not cause infrastructure failure. Factor in heavy rainfalls or an earthquake, and that precarious knife-juggling act could result in some serious…

December 4, 2015


New $30 million civil and environmental facility at MSU to recognize alumnus Richard Rula

The new $30-million Mississippi State University Civil and Environmental Engineering Complex Building will be named in honor of alumnus Richard Rula, a member of the MSU Foundation Board and of the Dean’s Advisory Council in the Bagley College of Engineering who has made a very generous contribution to the project. “Rula has been an involved…

November 13, 2015


MSU CEE student group wins grant to expand Zambian water project

An international grant soon will help a Mississippi State student team expand its fresh-water sustainability project in a rural African community. The university’s Engineers Without Borders chapter recently edged a Harvard University team and an Austin, Texas-area professional chapter to earn an $8,000 grant in the Penetron International EWB-USA Grant Award Contest. Based in New York, Penetron…

November 12, 2015


Congratulations to Dr. Farshid Vahedifard on being accepted to participate in the 2016 National Science Foundation’s Workshop on Geotechnical Fundamentals in the Face of New World Challenges

The two-and-half-day NSF sponsored workshop will be held on January 24-26, 2016 at the National Science Foundation. The workshop will focus on fundamental principles that underlie current and anticipated developments in geotechnical engineering. The organizing committee consists of Professors Ning Lu (Colorado School of Mines), Susan Burns (Georgia Institute of Technology), Patricia Culligan (Columbia University), and…

September 24, 2015