College of Engineering News

Kiewit Corporation based in Omaha, Nebraska, has provided a gift commitment to establish the Kiewit Scholars at Iowa State. The program will support students in the Iowa State University College of Engineering who have an interest in and passion for the construction industry.

Frank Peters, C. G. “Turk” and Joyce A. Therkildsen Professor, is the 2021 recipient of the Thomas E. Barlow Award of Honor from the Steel Founders’ Society of America.

Iowa State University Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering distinguished professor Rameshwar Kanwar was recently elected as a fellow into the prestigious European Academy of the Sciences and Arts.

Four ABE ITEC Students Receive Safety Scholarship

CCEE Alum Jay Mathes Receives 40 Under 40: Champions of Construction 2021 Award

ABE Alum Accepts Lead Role in Largest Agricultural Research Company in Latin America

Once again graduate student research presentations and the clock were in the spotlight in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, in the Perfect Pitch competition for fall semester 2021.

After completing his studies at the end of the Spring 2022 semester, Yi Zheng, a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering, will spend two years serving as a postdoc research scientist for the Facebook Reality Lab in Seattle.

For the second semester in a row, a College of Engineering student has been selected as the Graduate College’s student marshal and this semester that honor goes to Güliz Tokadlı, a Ph.D. candidate in industrial engineering and human-computer interaction. Tokadlı’s graduate school experience differs from most doctoral students in that she is working full-time while pursuing her Ph.D. In September, she starting working as the human factors lead at Locomotion, a company working on autonomous trucking technology.

Iowa State University’s microwave and millimeter wave nondestructive evaluation laboratory, directed by Reza Zoughi at Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE), will expand its capabilities through a new partnership with NASA. Through a Space Act Agreement (SAA), NASA Marshal Space Flight Center (MSFC) will loan a microwave/millimeter wave performance network analyzer that makes possible measurements up to 325 GHz, significantly improving this laboratory’s range of high-frequency testing capabilities.

ABE senior Paul Johnson receives CALS Outstanding Senior Award

owa State senior All-American tight end Charlie Kolar is one of the most decorated players in Iowa State history and he solidified his place in Cyclone history by receiving the prestigious William V. Campbell Trophy tonight at the 63rd National Football Foundation Awards Dinner in Las Vegas.

Graduating senior Morgan Smith took STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) to a whole new level after she arrived at Iowa State University. This fall, Smith, who is from Nevada, Iowa will graduate with two STEM degrees – Software Engineering (SE) from the College of Engineering and Microbiology (MICR) from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

New life for asphalt surfaces is being created with work of a group of Iowa State University chemical and biological engineering graduate students and researchers who have come together to form a promising startup business. 

Deb Schroeder, who worked as a clerk for the ME department from 2010 to 2019, spends part of her free time these days creating stained-glass panels.