By Jesa Wolthuizen Iris Rivero has made her way around North America throughout her education and career. In her latest move, Rivero trekked from Lubbock, Texas, to Ames, where shejoined the Iowa State faculty as an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering (IMSE). When Rivero, a native of Puerto Rico, …Continue reading “Rivero prepares for collaborative research upon arrival at Iowa State”
Julie Rursch, a new lecturer in the College of Engineering’s electrical and computer engineering department, is interested in solving some of emergency management’s knottiest problems. Her goal: answer the question “What happens to infrastructure systems when a disaster occurs?” As part of her pursuit of a PhD in computer engineering at Iowa State this year, …Continue reading “Rursch: improving emergency response and cyber security”
Building information modeling (BIM) is a relatively new process that involves generating and managing digital representations of a facility’s physical and functional characteristics. Integrating it into construction practices is something Yelda Turkan will continue to emphasize in her research and teaching as a new assistant professor in the College of Engineering’s civil, construction, and environmental …Continue reading “Turkan researches ways to streamline construction processes”
Sourabh Bhattacharya, new assistant professor in mechanical engineering, says his interest in math and science was inspired by his father, who is an electrical engineer. Bhattacharya, however, opted for a career in academia for the atmosphere of creative and imaginative problem solving. A native of Bombay, India, Bhattacharya attended the Indian Institute of Technology in …Continue reading “Bhattacharya seeks clean, low-cost energy solutions”
The ability to lead is a coveted quality, one that is necessary in all aspects of life. Recognizing the value of integrating leadership into education, the College of Engineering has brought on board Clinton Stephens, scholar in-residence for leadership education, who will emphasize these values and skills to engineering students in the classroom. Stephens began …Continue reading “Stephens aims to foster leadership development skills among CoE students”
The Initiative for a Carbon Negative Economy (ICNE) will be on hand to explain its vision at the 2012 International Annual Meetings of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, & Soil Science Society of America. The event takes place in Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 21 to 24, 2012. The Initiative for a Carbon Negative …Continue reading “Carbon Negative Effort on Display at Sustainability Meeting”
Iowa State University has been named by the Federal Aviation Administration to a team of universities forming a new Air Transportation Center of Excellence for general aviation. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood made the announcement Thursday, September 27. The team is called the FAA Center of Excellence Partnership to Enhance General Aviation Safety, Accessibility, and …Continue reading “Iowa State named member of FAA Center of Excellence”
ECpE’s Srinivas Aluru, Mehl Professor, is leading a research team that’s developing a set of DNA sequencing solutions using high performance computing. The researchers want to develop core techniques, parallel algorithms and software libraries to help researchers adapt parallel computing techniques to high-throughput DNA sequencing, the next generation of sequencing technologies. Read the full story …Continue reading “Iowa State researchers developing ‘BIGDATA’ toolbox to help genome researchers”
Leonard Bond recently became the Interim Director of the Institute for Physical Research and Technology (IPRT), effective October 1. Bond will continue his current position as the Director of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE) and Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. Sharron Quisenberry said Bond’s prior experience at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, …Continue reading “Professor Leonard Bond appointed Interim Director of the Institute for Physical Research and Technology”
If it seems like more and more students have descended upon Ames this fall, it is not an illusion. In fact, enrollment for both the university as well as the College of Engineering have reached new heights. Total university enrollment reached 31,040 students, a new record, while the College of Engineering has accrued 7,508 students, …Continue reading “College of Engineering has most undergraduate students”
With women representing only 13 percent of the engineering workforce, leaders and students in the College of Engineering at Iowa State are actively supporting and developing initiatives to encourage females in the discipline. Offering a variety of female-directed student groups and programs that provide mentors; social and professional development opportunities; and scholarships, these activities are …Continue reading “Engineering groups address national need to add more female insight to the field”
Originally from the Midwest, Thomas Ward’s academic pursuits and research interests have taken him from coast to coast. Now settled into his assistant professor position in the aerospace engineering department at Iowa State, he says it feels good to be back in the area of the country he has always considered home. Ward began his …Continue reading “Ward returns to Midwest to join AerE department”
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames Laboratory have discovered the underlying order in metallic glasses, which may hold the key to the ability to create new high-tech alloys with specific properties. Glass materials may have a far less randomly arranged structure than formerly thought. Over the years, the ideas of how metallic …Continue reading “Ames Laboratory finds ordered atoms in glass materials”
The Department of Mechanical Engineering is welcoming a familiar face back to campus. Former student Mark Mba Wright is re-joining the department, but this time as a faculty member. Wright graduated from Iowa State in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering as well as one of the first master’s degrees awarded in biorenewable …Continue reading “Former student returns to Iowa State as a faculty member”
Iowa State University (ISU) is setting up a product-security test and evaluation lab where university students will be assessing network security products’ strengths and weaknesses in a formal program supervised by faculty and a newly named lab director. “We have a large pool of students interested in cybersecurity,” says Dr. Doug Jacobson, director of ISU’s …Continue reading “Students will be doing vulnerability tests on security products at Iowa State University’s new lab”
