News - Richard A. Rula School of Civil & Environmental Engineering - Bagley College of Engineering - Page 19
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…
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…
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…
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…
NCEES Reaffirms Its Stake in the Future of Engineering Licensure (feat. Dr. Dennis Truax)
This week, NCEES, the organization representing engineering licensing boards, held its annual meeting in Williamsburg, Virginia. Not surprisingly, ASCE is deeply invested in the issues discussed and debated by NCEES delegates. After all, civil engineers represent the vast majority (about 70 percent) of licensed professional engineers. In addition to the many ASCE members represented among…
MSU faculty research featured in Science magazine (Dr. Farshid Vahedifard)
A Mississippi State University assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering is the lead author on a letter published last week [Aug. 21] in Science magazine. Farshid Vahedifard, an MSU Bagley College of Engineering faculty member since 2012, is lead author on the letter titled “Drought threatens California’s levees,” which may be viewed at http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6250/799.1.full. Additional…
Congratulations to those CE Students who made the Dean or President’s List (14-15)
Dean’s List Fall 2014 Thomas Ernest Allard John Thomas Bates Robert Stephen Bingham Shawn O’Keith Bozeman Jace Carlock Matthew Kyle Crittle Jason Robert Crum James Richard Cumberland Bennett Reeves Douglas Jonathan Adam Drannan Lemuel Anderson Dunn Carl W. Eifert Ty Landen Faulkner Walter Jacob Gandy Thomas Hazard Glenn John Kevin Green Logan Amanda Hall Joshua…
Bahareh Kokabian (PhD Candidate in Environmental Engineering) received the 2015 GSA Research Symposium Award for Best Poster – Engineering Category
http://www.grad.msstate.edu/current/orgs/gsa/gsasymp.php
Cementing success: Sustainable concrete at MSU’s Davis Wade Stadium wins recognition
An engineering team affiliated with Mississippi State is receiving multiple national and international recognitions for an innovative concept. First, their idea to use more sustainable cement and recyclable by-products in developing a concrete used in the recent expansion and renovation of Davis Wade Stadium was honored by World of Concrete, one of the largest international construction…
CEE Environmental Senior, Matthew Blair, one of 33 selected for the Spirit of State Award
More than 30 Mississippi State students are receiving the university’s premier student recognition for exceptional personal contributions to campus life. Now in its tenth year, the Spirit of State Awards program organized by the university’s Division of Student Affairs formally honors those who have made a positive impacts on peers and the broader campus community…