J. Edward Swan II

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Occasionally, my lab, my students, or my classes have been featured in various articles and press releases.  All of the links on this page worked when I first entered them.

• NSF Science Nation, 2012
  My lab's work is featured in an episode of the National Science Foundation's online series Science Nation, released September 17, 2012.  Episodes of Science Nation are widely distributed through science and education media outlets.
  
• Momentum article — Lorraine Lin, 2011
  Lorraine Lin's amazing costume Wing is profiled in the Momentum article "Student Uses Art and Engineering to Bring Magical World to Life".
• Momentum article — Sujan Reddy, 2011
  In collaboration with Tony Luczak, head of the MSU Golf Course, my student Sujan Reddy has developed an augmented reality phone app for visualizing golf course topology.  This project is described in the Momentum article "New App to Help Amateur Golfers Be the Ball, Read the Green".
• Our People — Lorraine Lin, 2011
  Lorraine Lin, an undergraduate CSE student who collaborated with my lab for three years, was featured on the Mississippi State University Our People web site on July 18, 2011.
• Neil deGrasse Tyson, 2011
  My Our People photo is featured on the background of the publicity photo celebrating Neil deGrasse Tyson's campus visit to give a Hearin Distinguished Lecture, on February 15, 2011.  I'm fuzzy, but I'm there!
• BCoE Quarterly E-Newsletter, 2010
  My student Gurjot Singh's research is featured in the following article: "NASA funding helps keep research a 'reality'", Quarterly E-Newsletter, James Worth Bagley College of Engineering, Mississippi State University, June 2010.
• Cellular South Android Cell Phones, 2010
  During Spring 2010, I worked with the Mississippi wireless company Cellular South (later renamed C-Spire) to provide 8 HTC Hero Android cell phones for use in my Game Design class.  At the time Android smartphones had only been available for a few months.  This partnership is described in the following articles and press releases:
• • Momentum article
    "Mississippi Company Helps Students Phone In Assignments", Susan Lassetter, Momentum: A Publication of the Mississippi State Bagley College of Engineering, Fall 2010, pages 38–39.
  • Campus Technology article
    "Mississippi State Students Design Android Phone Games", Dian Schaffhauser, Mobile Application Development, Campus Technology, March 3, 2010.
  • MSU Press Release
    "Some MSU Students Get to Call in Their 'Smart' Class Work", Robbie Ward, University Relations News Bureau, February 26, 2010.
  • Other Press
    The partnership was also described in an article on Yahoo News Finance, in the Jackson Mississippi Clarion-Ledger, the Delta Business Journal, and a report on WTVA news. 
• Our People, 2009
  I was featured on the Mississippi State University Our People web site on May 24, 2009.
• Momentum, 2007
  Our lab is featured in the following article: "At Mississippi State, Reality is What You Make It", Susan Lassetter, Momentum: A Publication of the Mississippi State Bagley College of Engineering, Fall 2007, pages 12–13.

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