Research News

Tamara Reid Bush will serve as the interim chairperson of the MSU Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME), effective Feb. 1, 2021. She is an associate professor of mechanical engineering and currently the College of Engineering Faculty Excellence Advocate.

Stavros Vakalis, a PhD student in the MSU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has received a highly competitive 2021 graduate fellowship from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S).

Hayder Radha, professor of electrical and computer engineering, was named an MSU Foundation Professor in 2020, a designation given to outstanding faculty who demonstrate excellence in research.

When Larry D. Leinweber was an undergraduate student at Michigan State University in the early 1960s, he held a student job at the then almost-new Kellogg Center. He worked as a waiter in the State Room for 30 hours or more a week, as he had to pay all his college expenses.

A collaborative worldwide study led by researchers at the National Institute for Environmental Studies-Japan, the University of Tokyo, and Michigan State University has revealed for the first time the role of large dams in mitigating global flood risk under climate change.

Leo Kempel, dean of the Michigan State University College of Engineering, has been named the Dennis P. Nyquist Endowed Professor in Electromagnetics. The endowed faculty position is in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, one of the college's largest academic units.

Md Shakir Mahmud, a PhD student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was awarded the "2021 Best Paper by a First Author Age 35 or Under" from the Transportation Research Board's (TRB) Committee on Traffic Control Devices.