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University of Mississippi

University of Mississippi. History. Founded in 1848 as the first state university in Mississippi. Engineering was taught in 1848, one of the first in the nation. School of Engineering was established in 1900, as the first Engineering School in Mississippi. OleMiss Engineering.

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University of Mississippi

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  1. University of Mississippi

  2. History • Founded in 1848 as the first state university in Mississippi. • Engineering was taught in 1848, one of the first in the nation. • School of Engineering was established in 1900, as the first Engineering School in Mississippi

  3. OleMissEngineering Celebrating 110th Anniversary: Manufacturing Leaders Since 1900

  4. School of Engineering • Enrollment: over 1,000 students • 50 tenure track faculty in 6 academic departments • Annual Research Expenditure: $10-12M/yr

  5. Six Academic Departments • Geology and Geological Engineering • Mechanical Engineering • Chemical Engineering • Civil Engineering • Computer and Information Science • Electrical Engineering

  6. Engineering Research Centers • National Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering • Mississippi Mineral Resources Institute • Center for Advanced Infrastructure Technology • Center for Wireless Communication • Center for Applied Electromagnetic Systems • Center for Community Earthquake Preparedness • Institute for Advanced Education in Geospatial Sciences

  7. Other Related Centers • National Center for Physical Acoustics • Center for Manufacturing Excellence • Center for Mathematics and Science Education • National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology

  8. Researh Capabilities • EE has one of the strongest group in the nation for small antenna and radar power research. • CE & ME conduct forefront research in nanomaterials, for blast, impact, infrastructure protection applications. • ChE works on renewable energy and CO2 sequestration • GGE has a strong focus on Geospatial Information Science and Technology

  9. National Center for Physical Acoustics 78,000 sq. feet of office/lab space 47 FT employees, 30 students (graduate and undergraduate) Faculty and students w/ appointments in Physics and Engineering Annual research funding ~ $8-10 M Notable Facilities: Anechoic chamber Jet anechoic test facility Mach 5 Tri-sonic Wind Tunnel Fully computerized in-house machine shop Card-coded secure laboratories POC Pat Brown: pbrown@olemiss.edu 662-915-5840

  10. National Center for Physical AcousticsResearch Fields Atmospheric Acoustics Sonic boom propagation, traffic noise and military noise impact. Porous Media Dam and levee monitoring, personnel detection and standoff detection of explosives. Infrasound Propagation of low frequency sound outdoors and the development of specialized hardware to monitor this sound. Aero-Acoustics Jet noise, combustion and acoustic induced vibration Material Sciences Composite materials and high temperature superconductors.

  11. UM Geoinformatics Center (UMGC)NASA (S6.02) UMGC: • Founded in 2000 • GIS&T applications research • Greg Easson (geasson@olemiss.edu) Evolutionary Computing (EC): • EC to extract features from imagery • Multi-stage training to recognize feature • Rapid run time after training

  12. Contact Information Alex Cheng, Dean of Engineering, acheng@olemiss.edu Atef Elsherbeni, Associate Dean for Research, atef@olemiss.edu 12” X 12” Mach 5 Wind Tunnel

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