The student-engineers of Team LunaCY say they’ve built an even better robot. That’s a big deal, considering last year’s robot won three of the contests in NASA’s annual Lunabotics Mining Competition at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (The wins were in mining, outreach and efficient use of communications power.) Team members were recently in their campus lab assembling, …Continue reading “Iowa State’s Team LunaCY ready to repeat last year’s top results at NASA competition”
Choosing the right college can be hard. Not to mention choosing the right major. There are a lot of factors to consider like “what do I want to do for the rest of my life?” and “how many hours do I really have to study to get a 4.0?” Do not fret, my friends, for …Continue reading “Why Choose Iowa State for Chemical Engineering”
Gale M. “Cork” Peterson, Jr. (BSConE’66), a longtime supporter and collaborator with the Iowa State construction engineering program, was recently named to the Iowa State University Construction Engineering Hall of Fame. Peterson joined his business partner, Cordell Peterson, in 1968 to co-own Peterson Contractors, Inc. (PCI), after graduating from Iowa State and serving two years …Continue reading “Cork Peterson named to Iowa State Construction Engineering Hall of Fame”
Iowa State University is about halfway through a three-month long online survey of livestock producers’ use of distillers grains. The nationwide survey is focused on the beef, dairy, swine and poultry sectors. Kurt Rosentrater, an assistant professor in the department of agricultural and biosystems engineering Iowa State University, said the survey may have to be …Continue reading “Iowa State surveys livestock producers on distillers grains use”
Two years into their work, leaders of the Dean’s Research Initiatives (DRIs) presented their progress in an open forum held April 22. In 2011, the College of Engineering established the initiative and awarded $500,000 to three interdisciplinary teams to help the groups pursue larger funding opportunities in important research areas. Initiative for a Carbon Negative …Continue reading “Dean’s Research Initiatives see successes in second year”
Grant Schmitz, eyes inches from a 6.5-by-12-foot panel of ultra-high performance concrete, studied the smooth surface for tiny cracks. He and other research engineers carefully marked every one with black markers. Schmitz, an Iowa State graduate student of civil, construction and environmental engineering, and Sri Sritharan, Iowa State’s Wilson Engineering Professor and leader of the ’s College …Continue reading “Iowa State engineers design, test taller, high-strength concrete towers for wind turbines”
By Fred Love, Communications Specialist, ISU News Service. — 6-5-2013 update: The Cyclone Power Pullers finished 22nd out of a field of 29 during the 2013 competition. The team’s written report finished 7th out of the 29 teams in the competition and the oral presentations came in 11th place. Team leader Alex Haight said the team ran …Continue reading “Power Pullers preparing for national competition with new quarter-scale tractor”
Students swarmed the Baja SAE garage last week, assembling their mini off-road racer and manufacturing spare parts for their two summer races. “The big thing we tried to address this year was reliability,” said Scott Brehm, a graduating senior from Rickardsville who’s a mechanical engineering major and the technical director of Iowa State’s Baja SAE team. The team …Continue reading “It’s all about reliability for this year’s Iowa State Baja racing team”
Caroline Hayes, chair of the mechanical engineering department and Lynn Gleason Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering, recently became an ASME Fellow. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers recognizes members who have had 10 or more years of practice in the field and an active membership with ASME. Throughout her time as a member, Hayes has been …Continue reading “Caroline Hayes named 2013 ASME Fellow”
A multi-disciplinary team of students was recently featured in Vitals, a Mercy Medical Center newsletter, for their innovative approach to learning about supply management. The “ISU professor” mentioned in the article was Jacqulyn Baughman, ABE lecturer. As a result of the successful collaboration, Mercy and the TSM 440 class, cellular lean manufacturing systems, are looking …Continue reading “Student project helps improve efficiency at Mercy Medical Center”
Growing up in Mumbai, India, Sunil Gaitonde had to choose a career by age 18, and without any engineers in his family, his decision to go into electrical engineering was the first risk of many that paid off in the end. In 1983, he chose to pursue his master’s at Iowa State after talking with …Continue reading “Alumnus Sunil Gaitonde generates success as young entrepreneur”
Dr. Raj Raman was named Outstanding Advisor at the 13th annual Engineering Student Leadership Banquet held April 23. He was nominated by Kate Klavon, junior in agricultural engineering. Below is Klavon’s nomination statement. Congrats to Dr. Raman! As advisor to the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) ISU chapter, Dr. Raj Raman is …Continue reading “Raj Raman honored at Engineering student leadership banquet”
