CHICAGO, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Scott Carson announced today that he will retire from the company at the end of the year. Boeing Chairman, President and CEO Jim McNerney has named Jim Albaugh, 59, to Carson’s leadership role at Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA), and Dennis Muilenburg, 45, to succeed …Continue reading “Dennis Muilenberg, AER E Alum, to head Integrated Defense Team at Boeing”
For Jessica Tobelmann and Adam Weaver, the countdown is on. They are general co-chairs of Engineers’ Week 2009, a celebration of engineering, which officially begins September 14. For the past year, they have overseen the efforts of five subcommittees and more than 50 committee members as activities, centered on the theme Rising Together We Can…, …Continue reading “E-Week 2009—Rising together we can…”
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University is again among the top one-fourth of all public national universities in U.S. News & World Report’s 2010 “America’s Best Colleges” annual rankings, and the College of Engineering tied for 22nd among public universities’ undergraduate engineering programs. Iowa State tied for 39th (up from 40th last year) among 164 …Continue reading “U.S. News rankings: Iowa State in top one-fourth; engineering advances”
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University researchers have so far won 19 grants worth a total of $7.7 million from federal agencies awarding money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The grants range from $2 million for a study of a bio-engineering technology that could produce biological hydrocarbons for biofuels to $600,000 for a …Continue reading “Engineers among faculty attracting $7.7 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants”
AMES, Iowa — After 18 months of hard work, Iowa State University’s Solar Decathletes are ready to show off their achievement: the solar-powered Interlock House, which they designed and built for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C., in October. The team will host an open house for the public from 2 …Continue reading “Tour solar house designed and built by ISU students on Aug. 29”
AMES, Iowa – Srinivas Aluru recently stepped between the two rows of six tall metal racks, opened up the silver doors and showed off the 3,200 computer processor cores that power Cystorm, Iowa State University’s second supercomputer. And there’s a lot of raw power in those racks. Cystorm, a Sun Microsystems machine, boasts a peak performance …Continue reading “Cystorm supercomputer unleashes 28.16 trillion calculations per second”
Biorenewable technologies are everybody’s business. That’s why Iowa State’s two-week Intensive Program in Biorenewables brings to campus a diverse set of top students from different academic, ethnic, and economic backgrounds to wrap their heads around critical issues in the field.
During a tour of renewable energy projects in the state, Iowa Governor Chet Culver stopped by Iowa State University on August 5 to learn more about the university’s research projects supported by the Iowa Power Fund. Vikram Dalal, Thomas M. Whitney Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is leading one of two Iowa Power Fund projects …Continue reading “Governor visits Iowa State as part of renewable energy tour”
Ames, Iowa – Lei Ying, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Iowa State University, recently was awarded the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) Young Investigator Award. DTRA is a part of the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Strategic Command, which is the intellectual, technical, and operational leader in the national effort …Continue reading “ECpE professor wins young investigator award to combat network threats”
David Grewell, an assistant professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering, was awarded one of seven Grow Iowa Values Fund grants for his work in high-powered ultrasonics. Read more about the grant awards.
The College of Engineering is one of two Iowa State colleges that expects an enrollment increase for first-year and transfer students for fall of 2009, according to Joel Johnson, director of engineering student programs and services. July projections for the incoming class range from 1,510 to 1,540 students compared to 1,418 who enrolled in fall …Continue reading “Enrollment trends upward”
An Iowa State robot and Alexander Stoytchev, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, recently met Josh Zepps (left in photo), host of the Science Channels Brink show. Brink visited the Developmental Robotics Lab at Iowa State. See the feature here .
Engineers Hans van Leeuwen and Mark Bryden are among researchers at Iowa State University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory who have won two 2009 R&D 100 Awards
Alok Bhandari, an associate professor in agricultural and biosystems engineering, is leading a multiyear project to test how well bioreactors remove nitrates from the water that comes from tile-drained fields. In order to promote a more sustainable agriculture, the goal of this project is to facilitate adoption of nitrogen management practices in Iowa and the Upper …Continue reading “ABE researcher testing nitrate removal from field water”
AMES, Iowa – Engineers Hans van Leeuwen and Mark Bryden are among researchers at Iowa State University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory who have won two 2009 R&D 100 Awards, the editors of R&D Magazine announced Monday. The awards, presented annually since 1963, salute the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into …Continue reading “Iowa State University, Ames Laboratory researchers win R&D 100 Awards”
