MSU senior: Makes ‘New Faces’ of '19

STARKVILLE, Miss. - Over four years at Mississippi State University, senior civil engineering major Phong Ly of Brandon, Miss., has attained numerous awards, honors and recognition. The newest award is being named to the New Faces of Civil Engineering for 2019 by the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is one of 10 U.S. college students selected. New Faces highlights a select group of civil engineering leaders and recognizes their academic or professional accomplishments, and community involvement. Among his other accomplishments, Ly was one of seven engineering students to be elected to the 2019 class of MSU’s James Worth Bagley College of Engineering Student Hall of Fame; and one of 50 nationwide students to earn a merit-based scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation in 2018. Ly has been involved in Mississippi State’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders and worked with the university’s Watersheds and Water Quality Research Lab and the Sustainable Bioproducts Department. The environmental engineering concentration major also interned with Gulf Power Company in NW Florida to monitor water quality and biological conditions near coal-fired and natural gas power plants. (Source: Mississippi State 03/08/19)