Three University of Mississippi engineering professors are collaborating with colleagues at Jackson State University and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to improve communications with deep-space probes and, perhaps even, manned missions. Lei Cao, Ramanarayanan Viswanathan and John Daigle, all professors of electrical engineering, are working with researchers at Jackson State University and the Jet Propulsion LaboratoryRead the story …
UM, Jackson Prep Offer Pre-Engineering Course
Marni Kendricks and Marsha Hobbs co-teach Engineering 100
September 1, 2017 by
Marsha Hobbs had been teaching physics and engineering courses at Jackson Preparatory School for two decades when she decided it was time for a change: not where she taught or what she taught, but how she taught. “I just thought it was time for a 21st-century approach,” said Hobbs, who holds degrees in physics andRead the story …
Catherine Grace Norris: Muzungu from Mississippi
UM geology and geological engineering graduate joins Peace Corps, works in Zambia
July 25, 2017 by
It’s a long way from the Grove, but Zambia is going to be home now for Catherine Grace Norris (BSGE 16). Norris took her “still warm” diploma around the world to find relevance and reward in her major. She is working with strangers who have become her closest friends overnight, literally. The night is aRead the story …
Valuable Lessons from a Candy Bar
Assistant professor demonstrates practical applications of chemical engineering to freshmen
July 25, 2017 by
Chemical engineering students enrolled in Ch E 101: Introduction to Chemical Engineering were required midway through the semester to use their cooking expertise to prepare a Snickers bar. Why, you might ask? After observing the strengths and pitfalls of carefully preparing caramel dispersed with roasted peanuts, and mixing nougat to the correct consistency with aRead the story …