Update: July 20, 2012 AMES, Iowa – Team PrISUm was feeling good at the start of Friday’s racing: “The sun is back today!” the team tweeted. Sunny and hot conditions have been very good to Hyperion, Iowa State’s solar race car. In steamy conditions that have overheated the battery packs of other cars, Hyperion has …Continue reading “Team PrISUm competes in the American Solar Challenge”
Two Iowa State students traveled to Washington D.C. in April to support the regional champions who competed in the national Real World Design Challenge (RWDC) competition. First year aerospace engineering students Ryan Himmelblau and Floyd “Richie” Richardson participated in the challenge as near-peer mentors to two high school teams. The teams had to create an …Continue reading “ISU students reflect on aerospace engineering competition experience”
Iowa State chemical engineering researchers are one step closer to making biorenewable fuels and chemicals affordable and easy to use in order to compete with today’s dominant, petroleum-based energy resources. Laura Jarboe, an assistant professor for the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, recently received a $315,020 grant from Iowa Energy Center to test hybrid …Continue reading “Jarboe receives $315K Iowa Energy Center grant for biorenewables”
A team of ECpE graduate students took home the top prize at this year’s MemoCODE Design Contest. The students, Chad Nelson, Kevin Townsend, and Bhavani Rao, devised a solution they named Shepard that was 24 times faster than the second-place solution. The group was advised by ECpE’s Joseph Zambreno and Phillip Jones. Read the Wall Street Journal’s Marketwatch …Continue reading “ECpE students win MemoCODE Design Contest”
The Iowa Energy Center is pleased to announce the projects awarded under the Center’s Research and Demonstration competitive grant program for FY 2013.* Funds to support the Energy Center’s grant programs are derived from an annual assessment on gross intrastate revenues of gas and electric utilities in Iowa. The amount received from the assessment is closely tied to the …Continue reading “Iowa Energy Center announces research and demonstration grant awards”
AMES, Iowa ― Size and capacity of farm equipment keeps getting larger and fertilizer equipment is no exception. Each year in Iowa approximately a billion pounds of nitrogen is applied as anhydrous ammonia. As equipment has gotten larger, many dealers are now using multi-tank systems with two anhydrous ammonia tanks mounted on to a single …Continue reading “New safety guidelines developed for two-tank anhydrous ammonia wagons”
R&D/Leverage’s creativity in mold manufacturing for PET tooling, IBM tooling and Injection molds, as well as unit tool development, testing and validation, is making it possible for Iowa State University (ISU) scientists to develop sustainable horticulture containers – eco-friendly flower pots – in a massive, USDA-funded, multi-institutional research program targeting the $7.12 billion container specialty …Continue reading “Research program brings bioplastic packaging to life”
Through a valuable education, incredible career, and numerous accolades, College of Engineering alumna Gayle Roberts, has become more than the president and chief executive officer of Stanley Consultants−she is a true role model and inspiration for young women in the industry. Looking at where she is now, it’s hard to believe engineering is not the …Continue reading “CoE alumna proves to be a valuable mentor”
ECpE lost one of its most treasured alums last week. Richard Kohler (RK) Richards died Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at Mary Greeley Hospital. He was 90. RK graduated from Iowa State with an Electrical Engineering degree in 1943 and, after serving in the army Signal Corps during World War II, obtained a PhD in theoretical …Continue reading “ECpE mourns loss of alum”
AMES — The shortest path between two points may be a straight line, but for Jay Harmon, making the trek from Indiana to Iowa involved much more than a trip on Interstate 80. Harmon has spent the past 18-plus years as an Extension ag engineer at Iowa State University. A native of Bunker Hill, Ind., …Continue reading “Path to pigs leads engineer to Iowa”
The search for the next dean of the College of Engineering is under way. Executive Vice President and Provost Elizabeth Hoffman identified a 20-member search committee to seek a successor to Jonathan Wickert, who will become senior vice president and provost on July 30. Search committee co-chairs are David Holger, associate provost for academic programs …Continue reading “Search begins for next dean of the College of Engineering”
Matthew Hawkins, a Ph.D. Candidate working under Professor Bong Wie in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, has received the 2012 Teaching Excellence Award from the Iowa State University Graduate School. Aerospace Engineering Senior Lecturer, Joseph Schaefer nominated Hawkins for his work as a T.A. in his course EM 327, Mechanics of Materials Laboratory. The …Continue reading “Aerospace Engineering T.A. receives Teaching Excellence Award”
Leonard Bond will become the new Director of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE) and a Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University, effective July 1. Bond comes to Iowa State from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory where he served as a Laboratory Fellow since 2000. Bond has focused his career …Continue reading “Leonard Bond appointed Director of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation”
