KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Bechtel Power Corp. announced March 1 that it is laying off more than 600 engineers and support staff as design work ends ahead of construction of a second reactor at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA’s) Watts Bar nuclear power plant.
Francis Caravan, a spokesman for Bechtel, told the Knoxville News Sentinel that workers [...] [...]
JACKSON — Entergy and the Entergy Charitable Foundation has made a $400,000 gift that will establish the Entergy Power Systems Laboratory in the School of Engineering, College of Science, Engineering and Technology at Jackson State University (JSU). It will allow JSU to offer a power systems track in the engineering program.
Entergy also made a surprise, [...] [...]

Pearl native founded company that designs wireless sensor systems that drive down power consumption
When the San Jose, Calif.-based Cypress Semiconductor Company announced its intention to close its Starkville design center, the founder of a Starkville-based company saw a great opportunity.
Camgian Microsystems, a company that designs and develops low-cost, low-power wireless sensor systems for the federal [...] [...]
STARKVILLE — Mississippi State University’s (MSU’s) Bagley College of Engineering is forming an interstate partnership to enable some students at the University of West Alabama (UWA) to also earn an MSU engineering degree.
The cooperative effort recently was announced between the institutions in, respectively, Starkville and Livingston, Ala. In addition to a bachelor’s degree in [...] [...]

Uriah Sowell, EI, has joined Pickerings’ Jackson office as a transportation engineer intern. Sowell graduated from the University of Mississippi with a bachelor of science in civil engineering. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Institute of Transportation Engineers.
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