Professor Michael Kessler has teamed up with Byron Brehm-Stecher, associate professor of food science and human nutrition, and Richard Larock, distinguished professor emeritus of chemistry, to develop soybean oil-based coatings that have antibacterial properties. The coatings could have applications in many areas, such as hospital sterilization, food processing and food packaging. The paper on this …Continue reading “Kessler Helps Create Biobased Coatings with Antibacterial Properties”
David White, the Richard L. Handy Endowed Associate Professor in geotechnical/materials engineering, has invented a sewer pipe made of recycled plastic soda bottles, plastic fibers and fly ash. “America’s infrastructure currently has about 600,000 miles of sewer pipes, much of which is older than 30 years and in need of repair,” White says. “I feel …Continue reading “Professor invents sewer pipe made of recycled plastic, fly ash”
It’s not every day students are presented with the opportunity to work with two of their passions while also venturing abroad. Maybe that’s why John Ryan, senior in computer engineering, feels so lucky after spending his summer in Grenoble, France, interning with Artuia. As a student who has taken many courses in music technology, Ryan …Continue reading “Student combines interests in engineering and music while interning abroad”
It’s not every day students are presented with the opportunity to work with two of their passions while also venturing abroad. Maybe that’s why John Ryan, senior in computer engineering, feels so lucky after spending his summer in Grenoble, France, interning with Artuia. As a student who has taken many courses in music technology, Ryan …Continue reading “Student combines interests in engineering and music while interning abroad”
Hyung Seok “David” Jeong, who joined the College of Engineering as associate professor in CCEE in August, believes construction engineering is facing a huge leap forward in the 21st century as the industry learns to take advantage of innovations in information technology. “The rapid IT advancements in data collection methods, digital data storage technologies, and …Continue reading “Jeong takes construction industry forward with IT advances”
Meng Lu, who will be joining the ECpE department as an assistant professor in January 2013, believes that label-free biosensors, which use biological or chemical receptors to detect analytes, will make the leap from laboratory research to applications in a variety of disciplines, including medical screening, pharmaceutical research, and environmental testing. “In the past decade, …Continue reading “Meng Lu: taking label-free sensing from research to practice”
Faxian Xiu, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, and his senior postdoctoral fellow Lihong Bao have published successive works on topological insulators in the Nature Journal Scientific Reports. The original article, published on September 18, discussed findings that indicate unique electrical charge carrier transport exists on the surfaces of topological insulator thin films. The …Continue reading “Xiu advances discovery on emerging topological insulators; paper featured in Nature Journal—Scientific Reports”
Qun Wang, an assistant professor with a joint appointment in CCEE and CBE, is using his multidisciplinary background in environmental, chemical, and petroleum engineering to create novel functional materials—materials specifically designed to possess certain properties or functions—to improve human and public health. “Some of the most challenging problems in the fields of medicine and healthcare …Continue reading “Qun Wang: developing functional materials for a cleaner, healthier world”
AMES, Iowa – Microbes are working away in an Iowa State University laboratoryto ferment biofuels from the sugar and acetate produced by rapidly heating biomass such as corn stalks and sawdust. But it’s not an easy job for E. coli and C. reinhardtii. The bacteria and microalgae, respectively, don’t like something in the bio-oil produced …Continue reading “Evolving microbes help Iowa State engineers turn bio-oil into advanced biofuels”
Jennifer Johannsen has spent a great deal of time applying her problem-solving and engineering skills in industry jobs. But after a year serving as a teaching assistant, she found herself inspired by the idea of shaping the minds of future engineers. This new-found interest led her down a new path and ultimately to her latest career: …Continue reading “A passion for teaching brings an aerospace lecturer back to Iowa State from industry”
Jing Dong, a new assistant professor in the civil, construction, and environmental engineering department, believes transportation engineering is a multidisciplinary field necessary to solving fundamental challenges. “Transportation research deals with everyday problems—moving people or freight from one place to another—yet it involves some of the most complex systems,” says Dong. “As a transportation researcher, I …Continue reading “Dong researches ways to expand electric car market”
At the 2012 Honors and Awards Ceremony, eight distinguished engineering alumni will be recognized by the Iowa State University Alumni Association and the College of Engineering. The event, which is celebrating its 81st year, is open to the public and will be held at Benton Auditorium in the Scheman Building on Friday, October 26, at …Continue reading “Eight CoE alumni to be honored during 2012 Homecoming”
New construction engineering adjunct instructor Maria “Catalina” Miller has experienced both the challenge and reward of applying her skills in one of the most difficult circumstances, trying to help refugees of armed political conflict. Colombian by birth, Miller has worked with the Colombian Red Cross Society to build basic infrastructure for rural families fleeing civil …Continue reading “Miller: engineering to improve the lives of others”
by Thane Himes High-performance semiconductors are individually tested to guarantee quality before they can be shipped to customers. This is done by inputting precisely known data values into a part, and measuring how the part responds to the input data. As Moore’s law continues to push up performance and push down prices, test time has …Continue reading “Texas Instruments adopts ECpE researcher’s testing algorithm”
By Kelsey Schirm Systems engineer Paul Componation joined Iowa State’s industrial manufacturing and systems engineering faculty this fall with plans to use his 15 years of academic experience to help grow several engineering graduate programs. Growing up in West Virginia, Componation spent his teen years building and fixing various things at home with his family. …Continue reading “Graduate programs excite new IMSE faculty member”
