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March 2010
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1. NMSU interim associate provost named College of Engineering dean NMSU
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2. NMSU graduate wins Gates Cambridge scholarship
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3. NMSU professors patent unique process to convert waste into useful products
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4. NMSU professor awarded $1.68 million grant from National Science Foundation
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5. NMSU professor will build rocket engine test stand from NASA experience
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6. NMSU alumnus Alvy Ray Smith receives Washington Award
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7. NMSU alumna Shakti Davis named Most Promising Black Engineer
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8. “Serial entrepreneur” to present lecture on starting up your start up
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9. Engineering physics program chair Heinz Nakotte awarded Gardiner Professorship
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10. Engineering a strength for NMSU
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11. NMSU receives designation as 'military-friendly' university
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Ricardo Jacquez, interim associate provost for academic affairs and community colleges at New Mexico State University and a Regents professor of civil engineering at NMSU, has been named the new dean of the university’s College of Engineering. Jacquez was one of five finalists selected to interview on campus and participate in candidate open forums with the campus community. He will assume the office on April 1. 
Mohammad Ghassemi, a recent New Mexico State University electrical engineering graduate, has won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship for 2010. The scholarship, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, pays the full cost for students from outside the United Kingdom to pursue graduate study and research at Cambridge University in England. 
A New Mexico State University professor is working to revolutionize the way we dispose of our waste.
Ou Ma, a professor in the New Mexico State University College of Engineering’s mechanical and aerospace engineering department, has been awarded a four-year, $1.68 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop new reduced-gravity simulation technology for astronaut training and biomechanics research. The grant money also will go towards developing a new simulation facility to house the research. 
Ed Conley, who has taught mechanical engineering at New Mexico State University for 20 years, has spent the last two summers researching rocket engine test stands during his NASA Administrator’s Fellowship and plans to incorporate what he has learned into NMSU’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Dr. Alvy Ray Smith, NMSU electrical engineering alumnus, has received the Western Society of Engineers Washington Award. Each year during Engineers' Week, the prestigious Washington Award is conferred upon an engineer(s) whose professional attainments have preeminently advanced the welfare of human kind. 
Dr. Shakti K. Davis, who graduated in 1999 from NMSU with a bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering was named Most Promising Engineer or Scientist for 2010 at the U.S. Black Engineer of the Year Award conference held Feb. 18-20 in Baltimore, MD. Following is the profile of Davis that appears in USBE&IT magazine. 
This semester, the Verge Fund Lecture Series in Innovation, Ventures and Entrepreneurship opens with Paul Short, a self-described “serial entrepreneur.” Short will present a lecture entitled, “Starting up your Start Up: How to Find Out if You Really Have Something,” on Friday, Feb. 5 at 3:30 pm in Thomas and Brown Hall Room 104. The lecture is free and open to the public. 
Heinrich “Heinz” Nakotte, professor of physics and chair of the engineering physics program at NMSU, has been awarded the George W. Gardiner Professorship. 
New Mexico State University is committed to the needs of the men and women who serve in the military. Now, the university has gained its second national recognition as a military-friendly institution.