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STARKVILLE, Miss.--For the third time in a dozen years, Glenn Steele is serving as Mississippi State's acting engineering dean.
Head of the mechanical engineering department since 1990, Steele earlier led the university's engineering college during the 1995-96 and 2004 school years. He now is filling in for Kirk H. Schulz, who earlier was named interim vice president for research.
In addition to his administrative duties, Steele will continue to hold one of the land-grant institution's highest academic titles, a William L. Giles Distinguished Professorship.
In addition to a bachelor's degree from MSU, he received master's and doctoral degrees from North Carolina State University. He joined the Starkville faculty in 1978 after serving as a supervisor with Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory in Pennsylvania.
Renamed in 2002 to honor an alumnus and major university benefactor, the James Worth Bagley College of Engineering includes academic departments in the specific areas of aerospace, agricultural and biological, civil, computer science, electrical and computer, industrial, and mechanical.
The Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering also is a part, as are nearly 10 major research centers.
Steele's appointment has been approved by the Board of Trustees, State Institutions of Higher Learning.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.