The College of Engineering advances many successful engineers into industry each year, and they all have unique experiences and accomplishments from their time at Iowa State. Mechanical engineering senior and Mason City native Chloe Dedic is no exception. In Dedic’s nearly four years at Iowa State, she has upheld a 3.99 GPA, participated in groundbreaking …Continue reading “ME senior recognized for abundant accomplishments”
Nicole Hashemi, William March Scholar in Mechanical Engineering, was chosen to receive the 2011 Naval Research Laboratory NRC/ASEE Research Publication Award for her paper “Optofluidic characterization of marine algae using a microflow cytometer.” Hashemi, an American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Postdoctoral Fellow at the time, worked on the publication with Jeffrey Erickson, Joel Golden, …Continue reading “Hashemi receives NRC/ASEE research publication award for optofluidic approach”
When he graduated in 2009, Iowa State University electrical engineering alumnus Austin Lyons didn’t imagine that just three years later he would be on the verge of starting his own company with four of his closest friends. The group, which consists of Lyons, Eduardo Torrealba, Trevor Hutchins, Brad Sanders, and Michael Clemenson, met at a …Continue reading “Lyons makes gardening “oh so simple””
Co-Founder Mark Bryden is featured in a video describing how ETHOS members are working together to develop and distribute clean cooking technologies. From the video description: “Half the world’s population cooks with open fire, causing significant release of carbon and harmful gas emissions, deforestation and harm to fragile ecosystems, as well as causing respiratory disease- …Continue reading “Video showcases work of ETHOS to develop clean cooking technologies”
By Tiffany Westrom, tiffany.westrom@iowastatedaily.com Hundreds of engineering students file into Mechanical Engineering 160 to learn how to solve mechanical engineering problems with computer applications. One of those students walked out with the knowledge he needed to put an idea to work. Shaun Vanweelden, sophomore in computer engineering, used what he learned about a programming environment called …Continue reading “The building blocks of business: Legos inspire student’s ventures”
“Let’s not simply reduce the CO2 emissions going up into the atmosphere. Let’s draw them down.” So says Robert Brown, a professor of engineering at Iowa State University and a leader of the university’s Initiative for a Carbon Negative Economy and its Bioeconomy Institute. Those are interdisciplinary campus efforts to develop ways to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere …Continue reading “A carbon-negative economy: A practical prospect or a pipe dream?”
