The College of Engineering at Iowa State is responsible for attracting much of the record funding during fiscal year 2009. Projects range from the NSF Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals to rapid highway renewal, biofuels research, a clean gasification system, energy and transportation infrastructures, and solar energy. Read more .
Tim Lentz, a mechanical engineering graduate student from Dubuque, is the project engineer for Iowa State’s Solar Decathlon Team, which is designing and building an energy-efficient solar-powered house for the U.S. Department of Energy competition this fall in Washington, D.C. Read more.
David White, associate professor in civil, construction, and environmental engineering and director of Iowa State’s Earthworks Engineering Research Center, spoke at an Intelligent Construction for Earthworks conference in April about the advantages of intelligent compaction and the savings to taxpayers. Read more .
Vikram Dalal, ECpE professor and director of the Microelectronics Research Center, has been funded by Micron for several years, and it has paid off with a new kind of silicon technology. Read more.
Vikram Dalal, ECpE professor and director of the Microelectronics Research Center, has been funded by Micron for several years, and it has paid off with a new kind of silicon technology. Read more.
Reaching an important milestone in their careers, four assistant professors in the College of Engineering have been awarded 2009 CAREER Awards from the National Science Foundation(NSF). The faculty honored with this highly competitive award—Dionysios Aliprantis, ECpE; Eric Cochran, CBE; Zhiqun Lin, MSE; and Qingze Zou, ME—will each receive approximately $400,000 over five years in support …Continue reading “Four Iowa State engineering faculty receive NSF CAREER Awards”
Ted Heindel, professor and associate chair for academic affairs for the Department of Mechanical Engineering, will serve as interim chair, effective July 1. Heindel succeeds Jonathan Wickert, who was appointed dean of Iowa State’s College of Engineering. Heindel is the director of the Experimental Multiphase Flow Laboratory. He was recently awarded the Bergles professorship and …Continue reading “Heindel named interim chair of mechanical engineering”
ICIDO will partner with Iowa State’s Virtual Reality Applications Center over the next two years to build research applications based on the company’s visual decision platform. Read more.
Ames, Iowa – Figuring out how to meet the computing challenges of the future is a tough task for engineers, and it requires researching and developing solutions no one has tried before. One Iowa State computer engineer, Associate Professor Chris Chu, is conducting innovative research to improve integrated circuit (IC) designs used in computers and other …Continue reading “Chu wins IBM faculty award”
University Professor Doug Jacobson’s Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment (ISEAGE) lab could receive additional funding as part of a $5.2 million federal aid bill recently passed by the Appropriations Subcommittee. Read the full article here: www.iowapolitics.com/index.iml?Article=162686
It’s official: As of July 1, Jonathan Wickert is the 11th dean of the College of Engineering. Wickert, former chair of the mechanical engineering department at Iowa State, succeeds Mark J. Kushner, who joined the University of Michigan faculty in September 2008. James Bernard, Anson Marston Distinguished Professor of Engineering, served as interim dean. View …Continue reading “College welcomes new dean”
Mark Mba Wright, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering with a chemical engineering minor, has been awarded the 2009 George Washington Carver Scholarship Prize for Outstanding Student Achievement in Biorenewables. This is the second year the Bioeconomy Institute and the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) have awarded the $4,000 prize recognizing the research contributions of a …Continue reading “ME student earns Carver Scholarship for biorenewables research”
Doug Jacobson, University Professor, stages a cyberdefense competition in the Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment, a virtual Internet developed to study and teach computer security. Watch the video from ISU CoE
NASA astronaut and Iowa State University AerE alum Clay Anderson has been named to the crew of the space shuttle Discovery for a mission to the International Space Station early next year. This will be Anderson’s second assignment in space, following a five-month stint onboard the International Space Station in 2007.
There is growing interest in finding renewable products that can be substituted for petrochemicals in a myriad of applications. While biobased plastics are seen as more environmentally preferable, clearly they won’t be used commercially unless it can be determined they are economically viable. Read the full story from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
