A large crowd gathered in the atrium of Howe Hall on Thursday, October 31 to hear an alumni of the aerospace engineering program speak. Dennis Muilenburg had once been in the same position as the undergraduate students, and now he serves as the president and chief executive officer of Boeing Defense, Space & Security and …Continue reading “Students and faculty exemplify partnership between Boeing and Iowa State”
Amazon’s announcement on Saturday that it is working to have drone deliver packages is just part of the future of drones. It’s a future that is taking shape at Iowa State University where drones are being tested. The CyDrone project is working in the lab and in the field to figure out how to create …Continue reading “M:2:I, ISU students helping shape future of drones”
Keeping nitrogen fertilizer on farm fields, to support optimum crop growth, and out of streams and rivers is no simple formula. It’s complex. “Think ‘writing a novel’ versus ‘writing a recipe,’ ” said Matthew Helmers, an associate professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering at Iowa State University, where he is working with teams of scientists …Continue reading “Iowa State Scientists Team Up to Keep Nitrates on Fields”
Iowa State University researchers think developing nanovaccines using a “systems” approach can revolutionize the prevention and treatment of diseases. Just think, since 1980 the world has seen more new diseases than medical science knew before 1980, said Balaji Narasimhan, Iowa State’s Vlasta Klima Balloun Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and leader of a new project designed …Continue reading “Iowa State researchers setting up ‘dream team’ to research, develop nanovaccines”
Scientific explanation just got a whole lot funnier. Five years in the making, a book called “FORE and the Future of Practically Everything” was officially released by Moonshine Cove Publishing on Nov. 15, 2013. The author is Anson Marston Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard Handy. “FORE and the Future of Practically Everything” uses a scientific theme, …Continue reading “Iowa State professor emeritus publishes ‘FORE and the Future of Practically Everything’”
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa – After months of preparation, one local small business founded by Tom Boe, mechanical engineering alumnus from Iowa State University, recently made a rather big renovation. On November 1st, 2013 Surfacing Solutions, Inc. officially changed its name to One3 Design, Inc. After celebrating nearly 15 years in business, the Cedar Falls industrial …Continue reading “One3 Design Looks to Future with New Name”
A plan by an Iowa State University professor to save the planet from a meteor collision continues to streak toward reality. The problem being puzzled over at the Asteroid Deflection Research Center in Ames would devastate humanity: an asteroid hurtling toward the planet, detected too late to be able to use other means to knock …Continue reading “Anti-asteroid nuke gains steam”
