The 2011 “Women Impacting ISU” calendar will be unveiled and distributed for free on Wednesday, December 8, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union. The event is free and open to the public. The calendar features six students and six faculty and staff members that have been prominent female …Continue reading “2011 Women Impacting ISU Calendar unveiling”
Regional qualifiers in the 2010 First Lego League (FLL) Competition are taking place across Iowa, featuring student-designed robots and lots of fun. Check out what happened at Cedar Falls, Ottumwa, Des Moines, and the Quad Cities. Newton’s FLL team was featured in the Newton Daily News.
At the Biorenewable Research Farm, many projects are underway that deal with conversion or transportation of biofuels. One project deals with using corn stover transported from fields and harvesting, and converting it into types of bioproducts. The project is led by Matthew Darr, assistant professor of agriculture and biosystems engineering, and Stuart Birrel, associate professor …Continue reading “Corn stover converted into bioproducts at research farm”
Researchers from Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory have developed a process capable of producing a thin and uniform light-absorbing layer on textured substrates that improves the efficiency of polymer solar cells by increasing light absorption. “Our technology efficiently utilizes the light trapping scheme,” said Sumit Chaudhary, an Iowa State assistant professor of electrical …Continue reading “Chaudhary fabricates more efficient polymer solar cells”
Iowa State’s Engineers for a Sustainable World chapter focuses its projects from both a local and international perspective. Read about several of group’s projects including rainwater harvesting in Uganda and solar lighting in India and Nicaragua in this Iowa State Daily article.
On November 19, Rich Wlezien received the Coffman medallion during a ceremony that included remarks from President Gregory Geoffroy and Dean Jonathan Wickert. Wlezien joined the college in August this year as chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and is the first to hold the recently created Coffman departmental chair. Vance Coffman, an …Continue reading “Wlezien receives Coffman Medallion”
Each summer, juniors in Army ROTC from around the nation participate in a Leadership Development and Assessment Course where they are evaluated on different leadership attributes. Trenton Fredrickson, now a senior in materials engineering, traveled to Fort Lewis, Washington, to endure a physical fitness test, obstacle course, day/night land navigation scenario, first-aid training, gas chamber …Continue reading “MSE student appreciates lessons from ROTC and engineering”
The Space Shuttle fleet will be retiring in the next year (pending, of course, on whether they can get some cracking problems licked). While the orbiters themselves will be sold off, at prices in the millions of dollars, to museums Universities and schools around the country will have the opportunity to own at least a …Continue reading “Schools Can Order Space Shuttle Tiles for Educational Use”
