When Thomas McGee became an as assistant scoutmaster for his son’s Boy Scout troop in 1963, he had no idea a casual conversation about bone implants would inspire 50 years of research. Not to mention a new type of implant he would eventually develop that helps guide bone regeneration. “It’s really an exciting project that …Continue reading “Osteoceramics: A new medical industry for the state of Iowa”
Dan Niebuhr, an agricultural engineering alumnus, developed an interest in golf at age 12, but his home in Fairbank, Iowa, didn’t have a course. When he joined his high school golf team, he dreamed of designing a course himself and began sketching. Niebuhr spent most of 1991 and 1992 planning and designing the course and, …Continue reading “Alumnus works to keep Fairbank golf course going strong”
Greg Luecke, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and four of his graduate students will spend the next week and a half at the Iowa State Fair as their research project with John Deere is featured in the Agriculture Building. A harvesting combine simulator with virtual reality interface is currently in the human testing stage to …Continue reading “Greg Luecke showcases combine simulator at Iowa State Fair”
An anatomy expert at Iowa State University is developing digital tools that could help surgical students gain nearly lifelike experience with a scalpel without having to cut into cadavers or living subjects. Diana Peterson, an assistant professor of biomedical sciences in ISU’s College of Veterinary Medicine, has high hopes for a project that could lead to realistic surgical …Continue reading “Gilbert joins with Vet Med researcher to create detailed 3-D digital diagrams of animal CT scans for surgical training”
The Aerospace Engineering Department might seem an unlikely host to a sailboat team, however, that is exactly where the ISU Autonomous Sailboat Team originated. Evan McCaw, a spring graduate of the aerospace engineering program, created the group and through a combination of aerospace engineering courses, computer engineering courses, and the Make to Innovate Lab (M:2:I) …Continue reading “Autonomous sailboat group navigates design process in M:2:I”
Stories by Robert Mills BEI student wins second excellence award Dustin Dalluge, a Ph.D. mechanical engineering student of BEI director Robert C. Brown, has been recognized for research excellence by Iowa State University’s Graduate College for the summer of 2013. Dalluge won the teaching excellence version of the same award earlier this year. He receives a …Continue reading “Bioeconomy Institute recognizes student, prepares for upcoming events”
As you walk in the east doors of Coover Hall, prepare to be wowed. Visitors are greeted with a stunning video wall that, fittingly, is intended to showcase and inspire work being done in the department of electrical and computer engineering. The video display measures nearly 16 feet wide and seven feet high, and comprises …Continue reading “Video wall makes big splash at Coover”
Steve Hoff wishes he had a definitive answer to give pork producers about the problem of pit foaming. But, he’s not quite there yet. “We’re basically about nine months into a three-year study,” the Iowa State University professor of agriculture and biosystems engineering explains. “We’ve collected a great deal of data, but we don’t have …Continue reading “ISU professor researches cause of pit foaming”
The Iowa State University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in conjunction with the Electric Power Research Center, held a two-day short course that covered basic principles of cyber security. The course, called ‘On Cyber Security of the Electric Power Grid with Attacks-Defense Training,’ was offered July 15-16 in Coover Hall. The course covered specific …Continue reading “ECpE, EPRC sponsor two-day cyber security short course”
Troy Carmann, a 1997 graduate of the College of Engineering, has worked with ICON Engineering Inc. since he graduated, starting as an intern and holding positions from technical and administrative roles to resident engineer on two large projects. Despite all the success he’s found in the last 15 years as a full-time engineer, Carmann says …Continue reading “Civil engineering alumnus says biggest accomplishment is yet to come”
Kendall Griffith, vice president of operations for Mortenson Construction’s Minneapolis office, is an Iowa State University alumnus with an impressive portfolio of construction projects and a conviction that close collaboration between builder and client produces the best outcome. Griffith, a 1992 graduate, came to Iowa State from Geneseo, Illinois, and was drawn to construction engineering …Continue reading “Griffith: Customer goals the priority in construction engineering”
Engineers know that gas turbine engines for aircraft and power plants are more efficient and burn less fuel when they run at temperatures high enough to melt metal. But how to raise temperatures and efficiencies without damaging engine parts and pieces? Iowa State University’s Hui Hu and Blake Johnson, working away in a tight corner behind …Continue reading “Iowa State engineers develop new tests to cool turbine blades, improve engines”
Several camps exist at Iowa State to show kids the exciting career paths related to STEM—Science, Technology, Engineering and Math—fields. One of the most successful camps the university works with is the Engineering Kids Day Camp at the Putnam Museum in Davenport, Iowa. Iowa State Engineering Community Outreach helped create the Putnam camp in 2009 …Continue reading “ISU partners with Putnam Museum for engineering kids camps”
Johannes (Hans) van Leeuwen, Vlasta Klima Balloun Professor of Engineering, and professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering and agricultural and biosystems engineering, hopes to develop a solution to world hunger. Fungi from ethanol byproducts takes about two days to grow, a process van Leeuwen calls “lightning-speed” farming. The fungi is high in protein, essential …Continue reading “ISU professor’s ethanol byproduct fungi could feed the world”
Milt Dakovich, president of Waterloo-based asphalt paving company Aspro, Inc., received bachelor’s degrees from Iowa State in both civil engineering and construction engineering. Gov. Terry Branstad appointed Dakovich—a Des Moines native—to the Iowa Board of Regents in June. Dakovich’s term as a Regent expires in 2019. We asked him a few questions about his time …Continue reading “Civil and construction engineering alum appointed to Iowa Board of Regents”
