A recent paper on virtual melting by Valery Levitas, Schafer 2050 Challenge Professor and aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering faculty member, has been featured in Nature Materials. The paper, by Levitas and Ramon Ravelo, a collaborator from Los Alamos National Laboratory, “Virtual melting as a new mechanism of stress relaxation under high strain rate loading,” …Continue reading “Levitas’ virtual melting research featured in Nature Materials”
Balaji Narasimhan, associate dean of research for the College of Engineering, talks with the Iowa State Daily about the important role patents play in advancing research and innovation.
To meet the needs of a growing program, the College of Engineering has welcomed new faculty in six of its eight academic departments this year. With research interests in areas like biomedical materials, fluid dynamics, and the economics of biomass, this group of faculty members brings innovative research ideas to the college along with new …Continue reading “New faces in the college”
Zengyi Shao, who will join the chemical and biological engineering department at Iowa State in January 2013, says she was encouraged to pursue the field early on by a high school teacher. “Mr. Yuduo Tang first suggested I consider biochemistry as my undergraduate major because I was very interested in the life sciences and always …Continue reading “Zengyi Shao: advancing the science of bioengineering”
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”
