Students from AerE 462, the Boeing Senior Design course, traveled to Greensboro, NC for the Senior Design Challenge. For the competition, AerE students from Iowa State were split into two teams and paired with ME students from North Carolina A&T. From there, the “White Team” and the “Blue Team” created an autonomous aircraft for the …Continue reading “Senior Design Teams present their projects to Boeing”
On Tuesday, students from Dr. Gielda’s Boeing senior design competition visited the Army National Guard base in Davenport, Iowa. The students met Capt. Forest Lightle, a CH-47 pilot who provided them with a tour of the facilities and an up-close look at two Chinook helicopters. One Chinook was partially disassembled in the midst of a …Continue reading “Capstone students get up close and personal with Chinook helicopters”
AMES, Iowa- The year-long process of planning, designing, and constructing a capstone project finally reached the finish line yesterday for a group of Aerospace Engineering seniors. The students from Iowa State University collaborated with seniors from North Carolina A&T State University to take part in Boeing’s Senior Design Competition. The year is 2040 and the students have …Continue reading “Aer E Seniors Present Capstone Projects to Boeing Engineers”
An anti-mosquito water agitator, a paddle wheel generator, and a high leverage wheelchair were among the more than 70 projects on display at the spring Mechanical Engineering Design Expo. The expo took place from noon to 4 p.m. at the Howe Hall atrium on April 29, 2013. Read more about the event in an Iowa State …Continue reading “Mechanical engineers to show off projects at Design Expo”
Since November, thousands of people have downloaded the iAnimal series, Zombie Strategies: Prepare, and D&D Helper iPhone applications. Users of those apps may be surprised to learn that the apps were created by Iowa State University computer engineering students. The students developed the apps as part of a course assignment in a new embedded systems …Continue reading “Computer engineering students’ iPhone apps generate downloads, sales”
