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CEE Mentorship Program Fall 2016
Office Hours: MW 12:30-2pm, Walker 105 Need Help Navigating the CEE Program? The Mentoring Program is here to answer any questions about the Bagley College, CEE (including help with class schedules and flow chart navigation), and to help in any other ways we can. If you are struggling with classes or need help connecting with…
Bagley Faculty Members, Including Farshid Vahedifard, and Alumna Participate in Award-Winning Environmental Research Project
A national research consortium has honored a Bagley College of Engineering professor for his efforts on a NASA environmental project. Civil and environmental engineering assistant professor Farshid Vahedifard was a part of NASA’s Surface Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite project that earned the Interagency Partnership Award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium. The award recognizes a team…
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…
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…
Dr. John Ramirez-Avila has been selected to receive the 2016 Chi Epsilon Excellence in Teaching Award for the Southwest District.
Congratulations to Jeremiah Glasz for winning AGC’s Bruce Tucker Memorial Scholarship Trust.
CEE Graduate Student Samantha Frederick was named the winner of the Chi Epsilon 2016 National Graduate Fellowship.
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…
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…