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Eco Car3 Competition
MSU is one of only 16 universities in the U.S. to be selected to participate in the four year EcoCar III competition. Sponsored by General Motors and the Department of Energy, students from a variety of majors, including some outside the college of engineering, work on a 2016 Chevrolet Camaro with a goal to maximize fuel efficiency. The team's 135 members consist of graduates and undergraduates of more than a dozen majors and are divided into four subgroups – controls, mechanical, electrical and systems modeling/simulation. Engineers across the college work with the many resources provided within the Center for Advance Vehicular Science (CAVS) facility. This includes state of the art simulation and diagnostic tools as well as a full sized automotive bay.
The Electrical Engineering department at MSU is home to the largest university operated high voltage laboratory in North America. The center for high voltage engineering can operate with impulses up to 3000 kV and 1000 kV AC-voltage. The multi-purpose high voltage facility serves as a means of academic research available to students and faculty within the engineering college. Recent research areas include lightning, switching impulse evaluation of transmission transformers and evaluation of lightning strikes on naval vessels.
High Performance Computing Collaboratory
MSU is home to the Thad Cochran Research, Technology and Economic Development Park which consists of leading business, industrial, and research centers. One of these centers, the High Performance Computing Collaboratory (HPC2), is comprised of eight independent centers/institutes with the common characteristics of multi-disciplinary, team-oriented effort that is strategically involved in the application and advancement of computation science and engineering using high performance computing. Professionals, including faculty and students work together in research areas include cyber security, distributed computing, big data analytics, quantum computing, data visualization, and more within the many different research institutes operating within the HPC2 center.
Cyber SecurityThere are also opportunities within the Bagley College of Engineering to work with other research groups including: the Formula car team, the concrete canoe team, Unmanned Aerial Systems team, the NASA robotic mining team, and many other interdisciplinary teams. MSU is proud to announce that its students from the aerospace engineering department participated in the Space Cowboys rocketry team, and finished first in the 2015 competition. Also, MSU was recently named the national UAS center by the Federal Aviation Administration.
UAS Research
For more than 100 years, the Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University has been at the forefront of education and research. Advancing in every aspect, the college is committed to pursuing excellence in education, as well as providing an environment for personal growth, innovation, and development. As one of approximately 40 named engineering colleges in the nation, the Bagley College offers degree programs in eleven different academic areas and ten certificate programs. The eleven academic departments include: aerospace, biological, chemical, civil and environmental, computer, computer science, electrical, industrial and systems, mechanical, petroleum, and software engineering. Each academic program provides a challenging curriculum and an encouraging atmosphere to allow students to achieve their full potential with many opportunities inside and outside the classroom to further develop their experiences in their field.
Quick Facts
Enrollment, 3,192 undergraduates and 588 postgraduates
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