Iowa Public Radio featured two Iowa State University professors on its Talk@12 program on Tuesday, May 19th. Host Greg Shanley talked with Bill Gallus, professor of geological and atmospheric sciences, and Partha Sarkar, professor and director of the Wind Simulation and Testing Laboratory in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, about last year’s Parkersburg, Iowa, tornado. …Continue reading “Partha Sarkar talks about the Wind Simulation and Testing Laboratory”
Forty-six students from around the world and across several disciplines descended upon the Iowa State University campus in June for a two-week Intensive Program in Biorenewables. Participants took part in talks, tours, demonstrations, and tests covering the opportunities and the challenges of developing a bioeconomy. Read the full story from ISU News Service. Watch the video …Continue reading “Iowa State’s Intensive Program in Biorenewables shows students the action”
Members of Team PrISUm were diligently working on their solar car’s battery system when lightning struck nearby. It was the eve of the May 31-June 5 Formula Sun Grand Prix at the Motorsport Ranch in Cresson, Texas. The team had spent two weeks repairing and upgrading the car’s battery pack and brakes. The race’s technical inspections had …Continue reading “Lightning strike slows Iowa State’s solar car team in Texas competition”
Computer engineering and human-computer interaction master’s degree student Shane Griffith joins three other students with ties to Iowa State University to win a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship this year. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program funds three years of study—up to $121,500—in master’s or doctoral degrees focusing on research in science, …Continue reading “Computer Engineering Student Wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship”
Goodrich Corporation’s Sensors and Integrated Systems team in Burnsville, Minn. has donated an icing wind tunnel to Iowa State University. The tunnel will be the university’s first wind tunnel to be able to perform icing physics research and will be housed in Iowa State’s wind simulation and testing (WiST) laboratory. Read more at Goodrich.com.
Jonathan Wickert, chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State and the Larry and Pam Pithan Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been appointed as dean of the College of Engineering effective July 1.
Contacts: Andy Frick, Iowa State MAVRIC team leader, 563 650-8750, gerandy@iastate.edu Matthew Nelson, Space Systems and Controls Lab, 515 294-2640, mnelson@iastate.edu Mary Jo Glanville, Engineering Communications and Marketing, 515 294-8787, mglanvil@iastate.edu Ames, Iowa—Building a Mars rover is, to say the least, a challenging task. The Mars terrain, after all, is unforgiving—dusty and hilly and …Continue reading “Iowa State’s 2009 Mars rover is ready to roll”
Shourya Otta-received the 2009 Spring Research Excellence Award. His major professor, Dr. Alric Rothmayer, nominated Shourya for this excellence award. The purpose of a Research Excellence Award “is to recognize at the time of their graduation up to 10% of the graduating graduate students for their outstanding research accomplishments as documented in their theses and dissertations.”
Hong (Michael) Yang-received a Teaching Excellence Award for Spring, 2009. His major professor is Dr. Z.J. Wang and he was nominated for this excellence award by Dr. Joe Schaefer, his supervising instructor. The purpose of a Teaching Excellence Awards “is to recognize and encourage outstanding achievement by graduate students in teaching.”
Dr. Hui Hu has received 2009 AIAA Best Paper Award presented by AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Technical Committee. Hu, an assistant professor in aerospace engineering at Iowa State University, wrote the article with his former graduate student, Jeffrey Murphy, (M.S., summer 2008), who is now working as an aerospace engineer at Boeing, St. Louis. The article, …Continue reading “Dr. Hui Hu and Jeff Murphy awarded 2009 AIAA Best Paper Award”
1. Bioeconomy Institute director Robert Brown has been named to the Gary and Donna Hoover Chair in Mechanical Engineering. 2. Robert Anex, associate director for research for Iowa State’s Bioeconomy Institute, has been named to the Science and Technology for Sustainability Subcommittee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Board of Scientific Counselors. 3. Surya Mallapragada …Continue reading “Honors and Awards”
The new Electrical and Computer Engineering Building: Phase I is dedicated
Goodrich Corporation donates an icing wind tunnel
Advances in knowledge of the human genome make it possible to predict, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, but also raise important concerns about genetic privacy and the possibility of unjust discrimination
CoE recruits first “cluster” of researchers whose interests bestride the traditional scientific and engineering disciplines to develop innovative applications in medicine, agriculture, energy, and more
