Iowa State University College of Engineering News

1 The post Iowa Space Grant Consortium (ISGC) program coordinator Carmen Fuchs retires appeared first on College of Engineering News .

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/04/26/iowa-space-grant-consortium-isgc-program-coordinator-carmen-fuchs-retires/

Iowa State University engineers lead a project to help the power industry defend itself that has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy for a or a two-year, $2.5 million grant. Project p...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/04/25/new-cybersecurity-center-to-protect-grids-integrated-with-renewables-microgrids/

1 The post M:2:I’s solar eclipse HABET balloon mission generates lots of media buzz appeared first on College of Engineering News .

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/04/23/m2is-solar-eclipse-habet-balloon-mission-generates-lots-of-media-buzz/

1 The post “An accomplished educator and researcher:” Wayne Chen becomes Vance and Arlene Coffman Endowed Department Chair of Aerospace Engineering appeared first on College of Engineering...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/04/23/an-accomplished-educator-and-researcher-wayne-chen-becomes-vance-and-arlene-coffman-endowed-department-chair-of-aerospace-engineering/

 Civil engineering students Reilly Healey, Sarah Mumm and Samantha Prigge joined assistant professor Leah Mo for a sustainability workshop at Florida State University. The post A hands-on expe...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/04/19/a-hands-on-experience-for-sustainability-in-demolition/

Vera Martinovich, an influential alumna of the Department of Aerospace Engineering, a member of the department’s Industrial Advisory Council (IAC) and a respected aviation professional, passed ...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/04/19/aerospace-engineering-alumna-industry-professional-aviation-ambassador-vera-martinovich-passes-away/

Namrata Vaswani, the Joseph and Elizabeth Anderlik Professor in Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The post Namrata Vaswani named ...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/04/18/namrata-vaswani-named-aaas-fellow-for-outstanding-contributions-to-the-field-of-statistical-machine-learning/

Thirty four teams of middle and high school students competed in the Iowa Science Olympiad state tournament, hosted by the College of Engineering. The winning teams move on to nationals. The po...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/04/17/college-of-engineering-hosts-2024-iowa-science-olympiad-state-tournament/

 I am an Embedded Software Engineer for an obstacle intelligence team at John Deere. My responsibilities are primarily working on embedded systems to implement obstacle intelligence on cons...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/04/16/alumni-spotlight-muhamed-stilic-at-home-at-john-deere/

A team of Iowa State University students are headed to Wichita, Kansas as entrants in a nationwide competition sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). The po...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/04/15/student-team-to-participate-in-national-custom-built-aircraft-competition/

The Iowa State University National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) Student Chapter is competing in the 16th Annual ELECTRI/NECA Student Chapter Competition in the Electrical Contracting...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/04/11/iowa-state-neca-is-ready-to-compete-in-the-electrical-contracting-innovation-challenge/

All systems are “go” for The Department of Aerospace Engineering’s CyLaunch student team in in Huntsville, Alabama, taking part in the NASA Student Launch Competition. The post CyLaunch M...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/04/10/cylaunch-m2i-team-heads-to-national-competition-with-unique-3d-printed-rocket/

Zhaoyu Wang’s research specialty is working to modernize electric grids for better, more reliable energy flow. The latest project he’s leading, in fact, is called “MODERNISE,” for “Mode...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/04/10/engineers-making-a-better-more-profitable-grid-for-distributing-solar-power/

From “Geo-pardy” to “Geo-pong,” Civil Construction and Environmental Engineering’s Geotechnical and Materials group has implemented game design in CE 3600: Geotechnical Engineering. T...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/04/08/the-intersection-of-geotechnical-engineering-game-design-and-learning/

The HABET high-altitude balloon student team with the Make To Innovate program will take part in studying the solar eclipse April 8 as part of the National Eclipse Balloon Project. The post Stu...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/04/04/student-balloon-team-focuses-on-solar-eclipse-opportunity-to-advance-hands-on-discoveries/

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture presents to ASABE the importance of policy. The post ISU ASABE Hosts Iowa Secretary of Agriculture appeared first on College of Engineering News .

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/04/03/isu-asabe-hosts-iowa-secretary-of-agriculture/

Dennis Vigil, Reginald R. Baxter Endowed Department Chair of Chemical and Biological Engineering and CoMFRE faculty researcher, alongside Zengyi Shao, associate professor of chemical and biologic...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/03/29/comfres-dennis-vigil-leads-project-to-develop-continuous-bioreactor/

It is an industry-standard practice to rid structures of these microorganisms with chemicals to slow corrosion progression, often coming with high costs and risks to human and environmental healt...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/03/29/combating-corrosion-with-3d-printed-biofilm/

Olivia Tyrrell (mech engr ‘21) recently landed research on the moon in an area she has worked on since she was an undergrad researcher in the Center for Multiphase Flow Research and Educ...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/03/28/thanks-to-comfre-undergrad-research-experience-olivia-tyrrell-shot-for-the-moon-and-made-it/

Easterling stabilized undergraduate enrollment, created new degree programs, hired 60 new faculty, raised nearly $150 million in private and corporate donations, and secured record research fundi...

https://www.inside.iastate.edu/article/2024/03/28/reappoint

ABE 4690 is getting hands-on experience recording data and taking steps to solve real-time issues affecting international populations. The post Making strides in grain preservation from 6,000 m...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/03/27/making-strides-in-grain-preservation-from-6000-miles-away/

The Sensitive Instrument Facility (SIF), a part of Ames National Laboratory, boasts two-feet thick concrete floors with built-in vibration-dampening layers, aluminum-plate lined bays, and fibergl...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/03/26/lin-zhou-explores-the-atomic-realm-at-the-sensitive-instrument-facility/

Zhang is a leader in the research of wireless networks. He is the director of the Center for Wireless, Communities and Innovation (WiCI) as well as the principal investigator for ARA, a first-of-...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/03/26/hongwei-zhang-awarded-willard-and-leitha-richardson-professorship-in-electrical-and-computer-engineering/

To combat the monetary barrier of a shear and temperature testing device, Emami Ahari decided to create one. The post A new device to address critical climate change soil impacts. appeared fir...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/03/22/a-new-device-to-address-critical-climate-change-soil-impacts/

Teaching and research expertise in the fall semester of 2023 has been recognized for four Department of Aerospace Engineering graduate students. The post Four graduate students in aerospace eng...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/03/22/four-graduate-students-in-aerospace-engineering-enjoy-teaching-and-research-honors/

“I was really struggling with what path I wanted to take. I enjoyed physics and chemistry in high school but knew I didn’t want to be a chemist or physicist,” DeMeyere said. “And then I s...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/03/22/uncertain-to-passionate-erik-demeyere/

Department of Materials Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Sid Pathak has been selected for a 2024 National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREE...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/03/21/sid-pathak-receives-nsf-career-award-for-studying-pseudomorphic-phases-in-multilayered-nano-laminates/

Iowa State University’s 2024 Bailey Research Career Development award has been granted to a team of Cyclone scholars with plans to address increasing rates of antimicrobial resistance by transf...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/03/20/meng-lu-part-of-team-given-2024-bailey-award/

Violet Stayner and Zachary Glowczynski, the two co-captains, take the lead in ensuring that the team meets each deadline. They make time for fun, too, “it’s a designated time to get to know e...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/03/18/team-chemistry-makes-concrete-canoe-built-to-last/

Wenzhen Li and Jean-Philippe Tessonnier have been named Fellows in the Royal Society of Chemistry The post Wenzhen Li, Jean-Philippe Tessonnier become Royal Society of Chemistry Fellows appear...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/03/11/wenzhen-li-jean-philippe-tessonnier-become-royal-society-of-chemistry-fellows/

Emma Wolf, industrial engineering, had no idea when she arrived at Iowa State University as an undeclared engineering major she would end up landing a job in quality control for medical devices. ...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/03/05/engineering-quality-for-healthier-hearts/

"Tile drainage, nitrate and phosphorus levels, all the soil stuff we manage here, it's exciting!” said Gabrielle Myers-Bailey, a graduate student in agricultural and biosystems engineering “A...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/03/05/graduate-program-creates-community-and-implementable-pollution-solutions/

Jean-Philippe Tessonnier, Richard C. Seagrave Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been named a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors. The post “Spirit of innova...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/03/01/spirit-of-innovation-helps-lift-jean-philippe-tessonnier-to-national-academy-of-inventors/

W. Samuel Easterling,  James L. and Katherine S. Melsa Dean of Engineering at Iowa State University, has received a 2024 American Institute of Steel Construction Special Achievement Award. The a...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/02/28/easterling-receives-american-institute-of-steel-construction-special-achievement-award/

"My journey hasn't been a straight line. There have been twists and turns, U-turns and backups. But once you find your right path, like I have, the path feels steady and right." The post Emma E...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/02/28/emma-ewert-found-her-path-in-environmental-engineering/

The $11.9 million investment would provide Montezuma with a microgrid, a small-scale electricity network that can operate as an independent system or can be connected to the larger grid. The po...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/02/27/advisory-us-department-of-energy-selects-isu-led-project-to-build-rural-iowas-first-microgrid/

“We’re developing computationally engineered enzymes that are faster and more efficient at breaking down lignin, the world’s second most abundant renewable carbon source, into simple saccha...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/02/26/could-the-future-of-powering-iowa-homes-and-farms-be-microbes/

Namrata Vaswani, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has created a free mathematics tutoring program run by volunteers called CyMath. The post CyMath offers volu...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/02/23/cymath-offers-volunteers-opportunities-to-give-back/

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Harpole-Pentair Assistant Professor Cheng Huang has been selected for a 2023 National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career Developme...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/02/23/cheng-huang-receives-nsf-career-award-to-attain-omnidirectional-and-efficient-wireless-power-transfer-systems/

For Danelda Allen (IE ’88), being assigned construction manager of the Therkildsen Industrial Engineering Building project on campus is a full-circle engineering moment. The post Building in ...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/02/21/building-in-progress-career-comes-full-circle-for-industrial-engineering-alum-danelda-allen/

Kun Luo is combining his experience in materials experimentation and theoretical simulations to explain the atomic mechanisms that create special properties in high-performance materials. The p...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/02/21/research-resume-kun-luo-exploring-microstructures-for-high-performance-materials/

"I like the fact there are a lot of different problems to solve in engineering," Wheaton said. "There is always something to work towards, and it's very satisfying when you find the solution. And...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/02/16/jacob-wheaton-gains-international-collaboration-through-mse/

“Ever since I was a kid, my dad and I were always in the garage, tinkering, tearing apart old cars,” said Jacob Eisbrenner, Ph.D. student in electrical engineering. “I used to always think ...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/02/15/jacob-eisbrenner-guardsman-student-and-cyclone-engineer/

Ratul Chowdhury is fine-tuning the protein Lanmodulin so it can be used to recover rare-earth materials from e-waste. The post A better way to (re)harvest rare-earth metals appeared first on C...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/02/13/a-better-way-to-reharvest-rare-earth-metals/

Department of electrical and computer engineering Harpole-Pentair Assistant Professor Hugo Villegas Pico has been selected for a 2023 National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career ...

https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2024/02/09/hugo-villegas-pico-receives-nsf-career-award-to-cement-research-of-long-term-electromagnetic-transient-simulations/