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Dave Ford: Dean of the Bagley College of Engineering at Ms State University · Out of Bounds with Bo Bounds

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Speaker 1: All right, good morning, Welcome in to the Out of
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Speaker 1: Bound Show ESPN one five nine the Zone. We are
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Speaker 1: so excited to have Dean day board with us. He
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Speaker 1: is the dean of the Bagley College of Engineering on
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Speaker 1: the campus of Mississippi State University. We talked about this
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. World class students, world class research,
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Speaker 1: and world class faculty here at the Bagley College of Engineering.
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Speaker 1: We want you to go to Bagley dots state dot
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Speaker 1: edu see all the amazing things that they're doing, and
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Speaker 1: then we want you to tour the campus of Mississippi
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Speaker 1: State University and come through the Bagley College of Engineering. Dave,
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Speaker 1: good morning, how you doing.
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Speaker 2: I'm doing great, bo Great to be back again.
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Speaker 1: Well, happy summer football on the horizon. You're about to
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Speaker 1: welcome in all your amazing students back to campus. Some
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Speaker 1: of them have been here this summer taking summer school.
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Speaker 1: I've followed y'all on social media. I love the post
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Speaker 1: on what.
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Speaker 3: Your students are doing.
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Speaker 1: As far as internships around the country, I mean you
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Speaker 1: dropped one that was out in California, another one I
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Speaker 1: think was in Alabama. I love seeing that and I
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Speaker 1: know how proud you are of your students, and I
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Speaker 1: think it was like sixty five percent of them will
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Speaker 1: do interns at some point over the course of their career.
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Speaker 1: And I know that's got to be exciting for you
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Speaker 1: and your team to see them go get that kind
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Speaker 1: of experience while they're still here at the Bagley College
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Speaker 1: of Engineering.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we have such great relationships with our employers, you know,
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Speaker 2: and partners across the country that give these students this
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Speaker 2: opportunity and it is really, you know, a bigger and
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Speaker 2: bigger part of their education, right Sure. You know, there's
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Speaker 2: only so many hours in a day and so many
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Speaker 2: credits you know that we can offer here, and so
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Speaker 2: being able to offer programs like that where students are
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Speaker 2: learning on the job in the context of what they're
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Speaker 2: going to be doing is critical and we continue to
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Speaker 2: try to grow that. We have a new Associate Dean
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Speaker 2: for Research and Engagement, Adam Smith, who's joined us, and
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Speaker 2: engagement is an intentional part of that, right, So he's
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Speaker 2: going to grow research, but he's also going to grow
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Speaker 2: the corporate partnerships and part of that leads to the
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Speaker 2: internships and the co ops that our students do.
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Speaker 1: All right, speaking of learning on the job, Space Cowboys
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Speaker 1: with another championship.
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Speaker 3: All right, so doctor.
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Speaker 1: Dave Ford, what was your reaction when you heard that
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Speaker 1: the Space Cowboys won another championship.
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Speaker 2: Yep, well, bo I read the first part first, which
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Speaker 2: is that they won their division again. They're Commercial off
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Speaker 2: the shelf thirty thousand foot division, and I thought, that's fantastic,
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Speaker 2: a repeat championship. And then I read the next part,
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Speaker 2: which is they won the whole thing. So this is
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Speaker 2: the International Rocket Engineering Competition or IRAQ in Midland, Texas,
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Speaker 2: and no matter what division you're competing in, you get ranked,
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Speaker 2: you know, compared to all other teams. And our team
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Speaker 2: won the championship overall for this year, and so I
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Speaker 2: just couldn't be prouder. I mean, it's great for them.
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Speaker 2: It comes on the twentieth anniversary of the founding of
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Speaker 2: the Space Cowboys, and so this is kind of a nice,
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Speaker 2: you know, kind of kind of bow to put on that,
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Speaker 2: you know, twentieth anniversary as well.
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Speaker 1: How big of a compliment is that to the Bagley
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Speaker 1: College of Engineering.
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Speaker 4: Yep.
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Speaker 2: I think it really goes to the quality of our
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Speaker 2: students and our faculty. I mean it just really our
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Speaker 2: students are the best they're they're book smart, but they're
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Speaker 2: also hands on smart and they're able to build things.
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Speaker 2: And their faculty advisors are just awesome. So you know,
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Speaker 2: kudos to Shreus and our support who is the faculty
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Speaker 2: advisor for that team, you know, of really bringing them along.
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Speaker 2: He's only in his first couple of years of advising
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Speaker 2: that team, and he's doing a wonderful job.
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Speaker 1: And look at all these companies, our institutes that are
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Speaker 1: tied in and collaborate or partner with your Space Space
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Speaker 1: Cowboys team in the Bagley College of Engineering. That's an
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Speaker 1: impressive lineup.
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Speaker 4: It is.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we're so grateful for our research centers that
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Speaker 2: are co located here in Starkville on our research camp,
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Speaker 2: so in particular a Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems or
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Speaker 2: calves provides a lot of equipment and a lot of support.
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Speaker 2: And then specifically for Space Cowboys, the Advanced Composites Institute,
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Speaker 2: which is you know here supporting research mission but also
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Speaker 2: supporting student missions like this. And then our great industrial partners.
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Speaker 2: The team just added Blue Origin last year as an
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Speaker 2: industrial sponsor. Aurora Flight Sciences, which is local and tied
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Speaker 2: to Boeing Northrop Grumman and Mississippi Space Grant Consortium and
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Speaker 2: all sorts of local partners as well.
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Speaker 3: That's a world class group right there.
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Speaker 4: It is.
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Speaker 2: It is they're really getting, you know, and again they're
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Speaker 2: working with those engineers. They're getting that experience and it's
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Speaker 2: paying off for sure.
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Speaker 1: Bagley dot ms state dot edu. We're visiting with Dean
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Speaker 1: Dave Ford and his crew twenty twenty six International Rocket
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Speaker 1: Engineering Competition. First overall, the space Cowboys do it again,
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Speaker 1: all right, show Doctor Ford. Talk about this got everybody
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Speaker 1: fired up in the spring when you all released this
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Speaker 1: and y'all posted this on social media. Talk about Matt
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Speaker 1: Ramsey Okay, graduate of Mississippi State University and mission manager
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Speaker 1: of Artemis two.
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Speaker 2: Yep, So Matt is is a wonderful example of just
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Speaker 2: really you know, our students going world class after they graduate.
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Speaker 2: Right So, a mission manager for NASA for a program
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Speaker 2: like Artemis two is just an incredible accomplishment that we're
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Speaker 2: really proud of him for. So he's a two time
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Speaker 2: graduate of our Aerospace Engineering department bachelors and masters. And
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Speaker 2: he was also a baseball pitcher here for the ball Dogs.
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Speaker 2: So he's got you know, leadership experience and you know,
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Speaker 2: knows how to kind of motivate people and work with
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Speaker 2: people as well as being technically excellent. So he was
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Speaker 2: back on campus in spring and talking with our faculty,
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Speaker 2: talking with our students, telling what it's like to be,
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Speaker 2: you know, on the hot seat. You know, you know,
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Speaker 2: an incredibly important, you know, world recognized mission like Artemis two,
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Speaker 2: and he's continuing, you know, to the next phases of
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Speaker 2: that program as well. So we're going to have him
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Speaker 2: back often, you know, to be talking with our students
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Speaker 2: and our faculty and sharing his.
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Speaker 1: Wisdom, Doctor Ford, How important is that for successful alums
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Speaker 1: to come back and visit and engage with your students
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Speaker 1: and your faculty.
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Speaker 2: It's critical. It's all part of that learning process, right.
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Speaker 2: So we you know, we talked about internships and co
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Speaker 2: ops and they're going to learn on the job. But
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Speaker 2: you know, you only have time for a handful of those,
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Speaker 2: you know, during your school career as well. So being
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Speaker 2: able to interact with people who come back, you know,
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Speaker 2: and share what they're doing in smaller bits, right, rather
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Speaker 2: than committing for a whole semester or you know, the summer,
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Speaker 2: to be able to learn from their wisdom and their
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Speaker 2: experiences and kind of smaller bits coming back to the classroom.
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Speaker 4: So I'd put a.
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Speaker 2: Call out there. You know, we can all be artemis
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Speaker 2: to mission managers. And I'm not, you know so, but
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Speaker 2: you know, everybody has has really a story to tell
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Speaker 2: and I think something to contribute. And so I put
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Speaker 2: a call out there to folks who are interested in
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Speaker 2: coming back and sharing their wisdom, you know, with our
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Speaker 2: students too.
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Speaker 1: And if somebody's listening, we want them to go to Bagley,
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Speaker 1: dot m S State, dot ADU.
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Speaker 3: If we have an alum on the.
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Speaker 1: West coast, east coast, wherever they are and they have
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Speaker 1: had success and now they're they're like, oh, I'd like
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Speaker 1: to give back, yep, then the floor is theirs.
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Speaker 2: Exactly like yep. A lot of ways to give back.
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Speaker 2: People tend to think about money or you know, a
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Speaker 2: check or whatever. Of course that's great too, but but
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Speaker 2: you know, just sharing your time with our students coming back,
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Speaker 2: you know, and you don't even have to come back
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Speaker 2: these days, right, it's remote. You know, you can do zoom,
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Speaker 2: you can do all these sorts of things, and you
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Speaker 2: can do a session with one of our student chapters
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Speaker 2: or with one of our competition teams be highly valued.
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Speaker 1: Matt Ramsey undergrad and grad Bagley College of Engineering also
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Speaker 1: played baseball mission manager of Artemis two. Unbelievable, and he
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Speaker 1: was back on campus this past spring. We're visiting with
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Speaker 1: Dean Dave Ford, Mississippi State University, Dean Bagley College of Engineering.
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Speaker 1: Now is the time to go ahead and schedule a
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Speaker 1: tour of the Bagley College of Engineering. Go to Bagley
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Speaker 1: dot msstate dot edu. That's Bagley dot msstate dot edu.
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Speaker 1: We'll be dropping some dates MSU preview days set for
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Speaker 1: October twelfth, November ninth, and November twenty third. Again, this
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Speaker 1: is a world class College of Engineering. Bagley dot MS
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Speaker 1: state dot edu. All right, doctor Ford Astronaut Scholars, this
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Speaker 1: is super cool. Tell our listeners about this.
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Speaker 4: Yep.
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Speaker 2: This is a program that's right up there with some
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Speaker 2: of the others they might heard about like Goldwater Scholars
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Speaker 2: and Udall Scholars and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
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Speaker 2: So this is a pristine organization. The Astronaut Scholars Foundation. Basically,
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Speaker 2: it's former US astronauts who've gotten together and raised funds
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Speaker 2: for scholarships for outstanding students. So you don't have to
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Speaker 2: be an aerospace engineering student or even working in that
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Speaker 2: field in order to be named this. So there's just
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Speaker 2: this So it's a it's kind of an interesting tie in, right,
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Speaker 2: we're kind of on the space theme. So we had
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Speaker 2: two students astronaut scholars last spring, Sloane Berry and Alex White.
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Speaker 2: You know, Sloan is in aerospace, but Alex is in
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Speaker 2: biomedical engineering and so you know kind of you know,
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Speaker 2: complementary fields there, but they've got they were two of
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Speaker 2: seventy nine astronaut scholars that were chosen nationwide that year,
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Speaker 2: so two out of eighty basically across the country.
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Speaker 1: This is prestigious. I mean it is seventy nine. We
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Speaker 1: get to that. That's a prestigious accomplishment.
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Speaker 2: Yep, absolutely, yeah, And actually we have but we that's
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Speaker 2: another thing that's great about Bagley is we've got a
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Speaker 2: great partnership with the Honors College here.
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Speaker 4: In fact, I would say a large fraction of.
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Speaker 2: The Honors College it's comprised of engineering students, and we
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Speaker 2: have now an Office of Prestigious External Scholarships that basically
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Speaker 2: works with our students and our faculty to position them
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Speaker 2: to have the best possible applications for these things. So
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Speaker 2: not only are we you know, you know, not only
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Speaker 2: are our students great and our faculty providing great opportunities,
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Speaker 2: but you know, we are plugged into how to help
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Speaker 2: our students succeed in this environment too.
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Speaker 3: All right, that's exciting.
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Speaker 1: Bagley dot m S State, dot ed U, Bagley dot
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Speaker 1: m S State dot Edu.
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Speaker 3: Oh, this is cool.
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Speaker 1: I love anything with CAVS Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems.
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Speaker 1: This is fascinating to me. All right, EcoCar. Again, your students,
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Speaker 1: your faculty have had a tremendous amount of success in competitions,
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Speaker 1: which means a lot to you and it should. All right,
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Speaker 1: walk me through what just happened and what's about to
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Speaker 1: happen in the future with the new vehicle.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is an exciting time, bo. So the the
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Speaker 2: four year competition, these competitions come in four year blocks. Basically,
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Speaker 2: it's kind of a year at a time in four
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Speaker 2: year batches with different vehicles that are provided by GM.
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Speaker 2: So the students work on actual real road vehicles doing
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Speaker 2: you know, working with the engineers at GM, working with
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Speaker 2: our staff and our faculty at CALVES to basically do
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Speaker 2: all sorts of modifications to them according to the rules
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Speaker 2: of the competition. So the students just finished up on
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Speaker 2: the Cadillac Lyric EV. That competition closed back in May.
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Speaker 2: Our team finished seventh overall and they had first place
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Speaker 2: finishes in eleven different.
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Speaker 4: Deliverables there as well.
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Speaker 2: And the one I'm particularly proud of is they won
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Speaker 2: an Outstanding Collaboration award from the organizers, and that was
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Speaker 2: for them being generous with their time with their practice
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Speaker 2: sessions that we got at Columbus Air Force Base. And
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Speaker 2: again kudos to the Air Force for you know, letting
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Speaker 2: us use their runways on a couple of off days
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Speaker 2: in order to test our vehicle, which we really appreciate.
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Speaker 2: So and we invited teams from the region, you know,
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Speaker 2: to come down and join us there and we shared
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Speaker 2: that and we also shared our Dino at CAVS with
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Speaker 2: these teams as well, so that that could help them
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Speaker 2: tune their vehicles, because not every facility at these different
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Speaker 2: universities has access to that. So I think, you know,
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Speaker 2: not only are we not only can we win first place,
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Speaker 2: but we can win with class yeah, and we can
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Speaker 2: win with some some you know, some sportsmanship, which I
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Speaker 2: really think is important, you know as well.
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Speaker 1: So and then the uh, the new car so to speak,
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Speaker 1: will be a Chevy Blazer EV yes pursuit vehicle.
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Speaker 2: Yep, we are already on board to start. Were accepted
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Speaker 2: for the next four year competition. So we're committed for
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Speaker 2: the next four years. And we're really excited because this
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Speaker 2: is a Chevy Blazer EV police pursuit vehicle that's almost
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Speaker 2: five hundred horsepower, one hundred and thirty miles per hour
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Speaker 2: top speed, and incredible AMOUNTORQ right, so it's a EV.
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Speaker 2: So it's off the line really quick. This will be
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Speaker 2: a fun four years. I so now is a good
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Speaker 2: time to sign up and then get on board and
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Speaker 2: join the team.
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Speaker 1: Bagley College of Engineering students and faculty winning again in
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Speaker 1: the EcoCar EV Challenge. So your students competing all over
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Speaker 1: the country and winning, sometimes winning at all or in
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Speaker 1: eleven different deliverables Bagley dot MS State dot edu. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so this is exciting right here, doctor Ford, You've got
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Speaker 1: Applications are now open for fall of twenty twenty seven
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Speaker 1: to this world class College of Engineering at Mississippi State.
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Speaker 1: Now you know y'all go after the best and the brightest,
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Speaker 1: and so I know this is exciting for you and
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Speaker 1: your team to host high school students and parents. So,
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Speaker 1: because you've got a long list of things that you
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Speaker 1: can show, results matter here at Bagley College of Engineering.
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Speaker 4: Yep, absolutely yep.
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Speaker 2: And you can call Colin set up or email and
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Speaker 2: set up an appointment anytime. So Marley Robinson is basically
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Speaker 2: in charge of the recruitment for the Bagley College of Engineering.
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Speaker 2: She's assisted by a set of Bagley Ambassadors, about two
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Speaker 2: dozen students representing all different majors you know, from across
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Speaker 2: the college, several different you know places in their you know,
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Speaker 2: in their academic career, from freshmen all the way up
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Speaker 2: to seniors. And we are standing by ready to host
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Speaker 2: a visit for you. So just email visit Engineering at
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Speaker 2: Bagley dot m S State dot edu. So that's visit
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Speaker 2: Engineering at Bagley dot m S State dot edu and
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Speaker 2: you can set up an appointment where you can come
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Speaker 2: and visit. Then we also have you know, university days
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Speaker 2: where they're you know, doing recruiting kind of more broadly
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Speaker 2: across the university that you can coordinate with those as well.
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Speaker 2: And you mentioned our Preview days coming up in October
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Speaker 2: and November and the Engineering Discovery Day coming out November
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Speaker 2: tenth as well, So registration for MSU preview Days is
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Speaker 2: going to and later this month, and registration is already
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Speaker 2: open now for Engineering Discovery Day.
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Speaker 1: Visit Engineering at Bagley dot ms state dot edu. Applications
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Speaker 1: are now open for fall of twenty twenty seven. Come
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Speaker 1: on in campus visits. You get to see everything that's
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Speaker 1: happening here at the Baggley College of Engineering.
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Speaker 3: All right, Oh, this is cool.
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Speaker 1: All right, I like this Mississippi Golf Coast Engineering on
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Speaker 1: the Mississippi Golf Coach. Some people may go, well, doctor Ford,
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Speaker 1: what are you talking about? Yeah, so you have the floor.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. So this is an incredible option for our
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Speaker 2: friends down on the coast, right, folks who maybe are
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Speaker 2: a little bit more geographically tied to that area or
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Speaker 2: just you know, kind of want to be there. You
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Speaker 2: can get a full engineering degree from Bagley College of Engineering,
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Speaker 2: the same ones we give out from main campus by
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Speaker 2: participating on the coast. So our campus is co located
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Speaker 2: on the campus of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
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Speaker 2: so MGCCC. In Gashet as somebody who came here from
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Speaker 2: the north, I had to learn how to pronounce Gaschet.
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Speaker 2: It took neology, so I think I'm there. But at
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Speaker 2: any point in time, we've got about one hundred students
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Speaker 2: down there studying one of three majors. So we don't
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Speaker 2: offer every single major, you know, unfortunately down there. But
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Speaker 2: electrical engineering, industrial engineering, and mechanical engineering are all offered
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Speaker 2: down there. They're absolutely identical degrees to what we offer
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Speaker 2: on main campus, and because of our accreditation process, we
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Speaker 2: have to ensure that you really do get the same
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Speaker 2: experience in terms of sure the theory and the hands
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Speaker 2: on piece down there as you get, you know up
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Speaker 2: here on main campus.
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Speaker 3: That's an asset.
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Speaker 1: So again, electrical, industrial, and mechanical are offered on the
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Speaker 1: Mississippi Gulf Coast at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Campus
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Speaker 1: in GSCHET Absolutely okay, again, you can find so much
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Speaker 1: information Bagley dot ms state dot edu. Let me say
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Speaker 1: this again, Applications are now a for fall at twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty seven. Campus visits have started and they will continue
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Speaker 1: to go through the last half of the summer and
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Speaker 1: then the fall will be crazy September in a good way,
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Speaker 1: and you want to see parents and students and welcome
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Speaker 1: them because you have so much to show and offer
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Speaker 1: you're like, come on in.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, and we'll get you hooked up with the
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Speaker 2: department that you're interested in. Talk with the department head,
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Speaker 2: talk with the faculty, see the facilities.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So whether again, whether you know what you really want
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Speaker 2: to do and you want to check it out, or
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Speaker 2: whether you want to explore you know, a couple of
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Speaker 2: different things. We can come up with a tour plan
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Speaker 2: right that basically to its points.
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Speaker 1: So you may think you want to go on biomedical engineering,
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Speaker 1: which is great, but you may come up here and go, oh,
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Speaker 1: aerospace engineering is my jam.
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Speaker 4: Yep, absolutely, yep, all right.
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Speaker 1: Dean dave Ford Bagley College of Engineering, Mississippi State University. Again,
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Speaker 1: world class students, world class research, and world class faculty.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead and get on line today Bagley dot ms
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Speaker 1: state dot edu and schedule your campus visit. All right,
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Speaker 1: dum oh current numbers. This is exciting. So what did
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Speaker 1: Kristen tell me? Over twenty eight thousand living alumps?
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Speaker 3: Right? That's correct, yep, unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: All right, So this this new freshman class for I mean,
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Speaker 1: they're all excited that you know, they're chomping at the
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Speaker 1: bit right there at home, right now, they can't wait
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Speaker 1: to move in the dorms and start experiencing, you know,
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Speaker 1: campus life. Both my kids, my daughter just graduated here
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Speaker 1: in May, had an unbelievable experience. My son will be
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Speaker 1: a senior. I can remember the excitement and anticipation going
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Speaker 1: into August. So you're about to welcome in a new
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Speaker 1: class at the Bagley College of Engineering. Talk about that
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Speaker 1: excitement and share the numbers with us.
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Speaker 2: Yep, absolutely, you know, this is one of the great
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Speaker 2: parts about this job, is it, you know, the cycle
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Speaker 2: that you have in an academic year, right, So it's
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Speaker 2: you know, you kind of enjoy that that kind of
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Speaker 2: freedom and a little bit of you know, kind of
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Speaker 2: calmness in the summer.
19:07
Speaker 4: But then just about when you get bored of that,
19:09
Speaker 4: you're like, it's time for them to come back.
19:11
Speaker 2: So we're super excited about them coming back.
19:14
Speaker 4: And the numbers are going to.
19:16
Speaker 2: Be bigger than ever we think, right, So official numbers
19:19
Speaker 2: don't get published until November, when we should, you know,
19:21
Speaker 2: kind of account for everybody who's sort of maybe transferred
19:23
Speaker 2: in laid or left or you know, whatever it might be.
19:26
Speaker 2: But you know, projecting forward, it looks like we're going
19:28
Speaker 2: to have about somewhere between ten and fifteen percent more
19:31
Speaker 2: freshmen as compared to last year's class, and again kind
19:35
Speaker 2: of accounting for all the other years as well, that's
19:38
Speaker 2: probably going to push us up about two to three percent.
19:40
Speaker 2: And the undergraduate enrollment over last year, it's going to
19:43
Speaker 2: represent a new high. It should be somewhere around forty
19:46
Speaker 2: four hundred I think graduate students. Yeah, so with our
19:50
Speaker 2: graduate students being over six hundred, that's going to you know,
19:53
Speaker 2: put us well over five thousand, you know, total students.
19:56
Speaker 2: I think you know, we're we're the biggest college by
19:59
Speaker 2: numbers of enrollment. In fact, we even now have the
20:02
Speaker 2: biggest program by enrollment. So mechanical Engineering is the number
20:06
Speaker 2: one major by enrollment. We passed business and we passed kinesiology,
20:12
Speaker 2: which are the other traditional members of the top three.
20:15
Speaker 2: So we're really excited about that. I mean, engineering is
20:19
Speaker 2: really drawing here, and our mechanical engineering department has been
20:23
Speaker 2: doing a wonderful job on some things, including ID lab,
20:26
Speaker 2: which we'll talk about at a few.
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Speaker 1: Us y'all gave me those notes and we've been talking
20:30
Speaker 1: about that on the show. That's impressive.
20:33
Speaker 2: We're going to expand that in a big way across
20:35
Speaker 2: the college in the next six months to a year.
20:37
Speaker 2: So I think that's you know, maybe maybe six months
20:39
Speaker 2: or a year from now when we're talking, we'll have
20:41
Speaker 2: some things to talk about there as well. So that's cool.
20:45
Speaker 1: Dean Dave Ford, and we are here at the Bagley
20:50
Speaker 1: College of Engineering, Mississippi State University. Now is the time
20:54
Speaker 1: to go ahead and schedule a campus visit. Visit Engineering
20:59
Speaker 1: at Bagley dot m S State dot edu now real quick.
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Speaker 1: MSU preview days are set for October twelfth, November ninth,
21:09
Speaker 1: and November twenty third. Applications are now open for fall
21:13
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty seven. And again that's Bagley dot m
21:17
Speaker 1: S State, dot e d U. Okay, I love this part,
21:22
Speaker 1: especially as a parent. I mean, wow, this gets you
21:25
Speaker 1: up and makes you dance around the room. Student outcomes
21:30
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm just gonna say ninety four percent and
21:33
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna let you have the floor again.
21:34
Speaker 4: Yep, thanks both.
21:35
Speaker 2: So, yeah, we're This is for the twenty twenty four
21:38
Speaker 2: twenty five cohort. So we graduated about almost nine hundred
21:42
Speaker 2: students in that time undergrads with a bachelor's degree. And
21:46
Speaker 2: you know, following the rules of the organization that we
21:50
Speaker 2: work with to track employment, we have to wait until
21:54
Speaker 2: six months out, you know, to get sort of firm
21:56
Speaker 2: numbers on that. So we're looking at the cohort that
21:58
Speaker 2: graduated last year. Ninety four percent were employed, you know,
22:02
Speaker 2: in a job in their field or had gone on
22:04
Speaker 2: to graduate school, professional school, or military service, you know,
22:08
Speaker 2: within six months of graduation. So the market is still
22:12
Speaker 2: there for engineers.
22:14
Speaker 4: They love our engineers.
22:16
Speaker 2: We had two hundred and ninety five unique organizations higher
22:20
Speaker 2: from that cohort, so you know, nine hundred students going
22:22
Speaker 2: out there almost three hundred organizations involved in hiring them.
22:26
Speaker 2: Our average salary was seventy six thousand and the high
22:30
Speaker 2: was one hundred and ten thousand.
22:32
Speaker 4: Which which was really good.
22:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a really good number. And about a
22:38
Speaker 2: quarter of the employers we saw were offering signing bonuses,
22:41
Speaker 2: you know, somewhere a couple thousand, all the way up
22:43
Speaker 2: to ten thousand dollars to sign with the company. So
22:47
Speaker 2: so again that those numbers are are a little bit older,
22:50
Speaker 2: but they have to be because we have to track
22:52
Speaker 2: you know, six months out. But the feedback we're getting now,
22:56
Speaker 2: I mean, I think the twenty twenty five, twenty six
22:58
Speaker 2: cohort is going to be another, you know, another big one,
23:01
Speaker 2: and so we're excited about that. And the fact is,
23:04
Speaker 2: you know, four or five years down the road when
23:06
Speaker 2: some of your listeners are would be graduating, right, you
23:09
Speaker 2: just you never know. But the truth is, we just
23:11
Speaker 2: do well in all times, right, I mean, Badley it's
23:14
Speaker 2: a it's a it's a combination of theory and hands
23:17
Speaker 2: on practice. And you of course we've told these stories
23:20
Speaker 2: you know earlier here in the show.
23:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's fast, it's prestigious, yep.
23:24
Speaker 1: And basically what you're saying, and you've got the numbers
23:27
Speaker 1: to back it up, is the demand is there for
23:30
Speaker 1: Bagley College of Engineering.
23:32
Speaker 4: Graduates exactly exactly, yep.
23:34
Speaker 3: And I think that's why you and your team get
23:36
Speaker 3: up exactly exactly.
23:37
Speaker 4: That's what we do.
23:38
Speaker 2: That's what we do, right, And it gets reflected.
23:40
Speaker 4: In this times change.
23:42
Speaker 2: The tools change instead of spreadsheets now.
23:44
Speaker 4: It's AI right now. But but it's a tool, right.
23:46
Speaker 2: And so we're you know, we're we're training our engineers
23:49
Speaker 2: on how to use it, you know, ethically and productively,
23:52
Speaker 2: and you know, you know, in a way that moves
23:54
Speaker 2: the field forward, and so we're you know, we're confident
23:57
Speaker 2: that we're going to you know, Badley is going to
23:59
Speaker 2: remain a name.
24:00
Speaker 3: No question. Actually, I think it's just doing this.
24:03
Speaker 1: I think the trajectory is incredible and people, I think
24:09
Speaker 1: big time students are going to continue to knock down
24:12
Speaker 1: your door and want to be a part of it,
24:14
Speaker 1: whichever direction they want to go. All right, Dean dave
24:18
Speaker 1: Ford Bagley College of Engineering again, book your campus, visit
24:23
Speaker 1: now Bagley dot MS State dot ed U, Bagley dot
24:29
Speaker 1: m S State dot edu. We mentioned the over twenty
24:33
Speaker 1: eight thousand living alum so many of them are super
24:37
Speaker 1: successful in whatever shape, way, shape or form, and in
24:40
Speaker 1: the private sector, in the public sector, whatever.
24:43
Speaker 3: I mean.
24:43
Speaker 1: You've got people right now that are making things happen
24:47
Speaker 1: all across the country and the world. So, having said that,
24:53
Speaker 1: if there's an alum listing that wants to get involved
24:57
Speaker 1: financially or otherwise, y'all are all ways open to this absolutely,
25:02
Speaker 1: whether they want to endow a scholarship, what you know, Hey,
25:05
Speaker 1: we want to write a check, We want to get
25:07
Speaker 1: involved here or there.
25:09
Speaker 3: You're the door's open exactly.
25:11
Speaker 2: There's a million ways to support us, right I mean again,
25:13
Speaker 2: you just mentioned it, right. You want to support the students.
25:16
Speaker 2: It's scholarships. Maybe it's supporting these student teams, right, so
25:19
Speaker 2: they have money to travel a study abroad, you know,
25:21
Speaker 2: is another one that that are it really is, especially
25:25
Speaker 2: in today's world. And so but then again supporting faculty
25:29
Speaker 2: as well, faculty research, you know, faculty, you know, advisors,
25:34
Speaker 2: you know for these student teams, buildings, right, there's there's
25:37
Speaker 2: all sorts of things that that that we could really
25:40
Speaker 2: really use your help with and we'd appreciate it. But
25:43
Speaker 2: beyond the financial piece again, just you know, get engaged.
25:47
Speaker 2: If you haven't been talking to us for a while,
25:49
Speaker 2: or you haven't been aware of what's going on, shoot
25:52
Speaker 2: an email and you know, tell us what's going on
25:54
Speaker 2: with you and and maybe some ways that you're interested
25:56
Speaker 2: in in talking with our students giving back. Maybe your company,
25:59
Speaker 2: maybe you're not hiring right now from Bagley, maybe you
26:01
Speaker 2: want to join those three hundred apps companies that are right,
26:05
Speaker 2: you know, so we're we're that's a great point, yeah, we're.
26:08
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's one of the biggest ways you
26:09
Speaker 2: can just directly give back, right is become an advocate
26:13
Speaker 2: for our students, you know, at the place where you work.
26:16
Speaker 1: So yeah, I had not thought of that, but it
26:19
Speaker 1: means that's makes perfect sense and that's low hanging fruit. Ye,
26:23
Speaker 1: you've got an engineer listing. That's like, hold on, we
26:26
Speaker 1: haven't we haven't hired from this outstanding call it Bagley
26:29
Speaker 1: College of Engineering.
26:30
Speaker 3: Boom. That's a big deal for y'all.
26:32
Speaker 1: But then to reach out he or she and say, hey,
26:35
Speaker 1: tell us you know who you have coming through we
26:37
Speaker 1: want to interview some people.
26:39
Speaker 2: Absolutely makes a huge difference for the students, right, just yeah,
26:42
Speaker 2: just having those those additional options. Yeah, So if you're
26:44
Speaker 2: if you're a lonely MSU alum hasn't hired in a
26:47
Speaker 2: while from us.
26:48
Speaker 3: In your company, let's go, let's go. Yeah, all right, show.
26:53
Speaker 1: Bagley dot m S State dot e d U.
26:57
Speaker 3: I want to go over this again.
26:59
Speaker 1: We we've got applications are now open for fallow twenty
27:02
Speaker 1: twenty seven, parents and high school students. Here's the email
27:07
Speaker 1: visit Engineering at Bagley dot Msstate dot edu. But you
27:12
Speaker 1: can get that off the site too if you don't
27:14
Speaker 1: remember all that campus visits so important. Once you get
27:19
Speaker 1: on this campus and you see how pretty it is,
27:22
Speaker 1: the people in this world class Bagley College of Engineering.
27:26
Speaker 1: In my opinion, the cell is easy, but we want
27:29
Speaker 1: to get them here. We want to get them here,
27:31
Speaker 1: and so we want them to come on in now
27:35
Speaker 1: as seniors or juniors and check out everything. Okay, So
27:39
Speaker 1: we've got another national championship, World championship and international rocket
27:46
Speaker 1: engineering competition with the Space Cowboys, which I think is
27:50
Speaker 1: the coolest thing in the world. In fact, I got
27:52
Speaker 1: to tell you this. Dean Scott Graw. The first thing
27:56
Speaker 1: he said when he talked about you, he was like,
27:59
Speaker 1: ask him about the Space Cowboys. It's incredible, And I
28:03
Speaker 1: was like, I didn't even How did I not know
28:04
Speaker 1: about it? Is kind of you know, locked in as
28:07
Speaker 1: I am, And so then I started looking at it.
28:10
Speaker 1: In our first interview, you talked about it, and how
28:13
Speaker 1: cool is it between the time that we talked and
28:15
Speaker 1: now y'all have won another national championship.
28:18
Speaker 4: Yep, yep. The students are busy, yep.
28:20
Speaker 2: They're just they're always working, right, and though that's the
28:23
Speaker 2: beauty of it, right, a year from now they'll be
28:25
Speaker 2: there'll be more of these stories. Sure, I can't wait
28:27
Speaker 2: to share them. Yeah, I mean, because because the students
28:29
Speaker 2: are always busy. They're talented, and they're hardworking, and they're
28:32
Speaker 2: always doing.
28:33
Speaker 1: Something ambitious and I love it. When I saw the
28:38
Speaker 1: y'all dropped it on social media on Facebook, Bagley College
28:41
Speaker 1: of Engineering, and so I saw the graphic and I
28:43
Speaker 1: immediately text you.
28:45
Speaker 3: And I was like, I got it.
28:46
Speaker 4: I got text day.
28:48
Speaker 1: I mean, Dean Ford has to be over the moon
28:50
Speaker 1: that this college has won another national championship. So all
28:55
Speaker 1: right again, campus visits campus visits, campus visits Bagley, ms
29:01
Speaker 1: State dot edu.
29:03
Speaker 3: Is there?
29:04
Speaker 1: We're going to do this again sooner than later, especially
29:07
Speaker 1: now with football, we got to hit this, you know,
29:10
Speaker 1: at least a couple more times before the preview days
29:14
Speaker 1: and the Engineering Discovery Day. Is there anything Doctor Ford
29:18
Speaker 1: that I left off?
29:19
Speaker 2: No, I think we covered a lot today, BO and
29:22
Speaker 2: I look forward to talking more. Just really appreciate the
29:24
Speaker 2: partnership joll be working with you, and just appreciate your
29:27
Speaker 2: passion for MSU and the Bagley College of Engineering.
29:31
Speaker 1: Well, and Kristen, thank you for putting everything together. This
29:35
Speaker 1: was great and I can live endorse off this, which
29:37
Speaker 1: is going to be great. I mean, parents and high
29:39
Speaker 1: school students are going to love this. Thanks to Dean
29:43
Speaker 1: Dave Ford, doctor Ford, and the team here at the
29:46
Speaker 1: Bagley College of Engineering Mississippi State University again. Campus visits,
29:51
Speaker 1: campus visits Bagley dot m S State dot edu. You
29:54
Speaker 1: need to check out when the preview days are and
29:57
Speaker 1: the Engineering Discovery Day all right, visit Engineering at Bagley
30:02
Speaker 1: dot ms state dot ed U. Doctor Ford, thank you,
30:06
Speaker 1: thanks both. We'll do it again in a few weeks.
30:08
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the out of Boundshow ESPN one
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