Song Zhang, William and Virginia Binger Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, was elected a 2014 fellow of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, promotes members as new fellows of the society to honor them for their technical achievements, for their service to the general optics community, and to …Continue reading “Zhang named SPIE fellow”
Nik Karpinsky quickly tapped out a few computer commands until Zeus, in all his bearded and statuesque glory, appeared in the middle of a holographic glass panel mounted to an office desk. The white statue stared back at Karpinsky. Then a hand appeared and turned the full-size head to the right and to the left. …Continue reading “Iowa State, Ames Lab engineers develop real-time, 3-D teleconferencing technology”
Imagine seeing live, three-dimensional video of rapid phenomenon like a beating heart. Then, imagine being able to use that data to evaluate disease or even perform surgery. A sensing technology with this sort of capability would need to be fast, and it would need to be precise. And if it is both of those things, …Continue reading “Zhang looks to develop a platform 3D sensing technology”
Iowa State University researchers have disclosed their 4,000th invention to the university’s research foundation. That’s 4,000 inventions that have been studied for patent protection and commercial potential. The 4,000th invention happens to be software that compresses 3-D images for easier storage on a computer. Song Zhang, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering is the inventor of the …Continue reading “Engineer discloses Iowa State’s 4,000th invention for possible commercialization”
