College of Engineering News • Iowa State University

Harmon receives G.B. Gunlogson Countryside Engineering Award

JAY D. HARMON, P.E., ASABE Fellow, is the recipient of the 2015 G.B. Gunlogson Countryside Engineering Award for his exemplary service to animal production systems through the application of engineering principles and performance in research, extension, outreach, and teaching. Harmon, professor and extension livestock housing specialist in the agricultural and biosystems engineering department at Iowa …Continue reading “Harmon receives G.B. Gunlogson Countryside Engineering Award”

Flipped classroom video pre-lab project comes to MSE department

Facing overcrowded labs and enrollment growth, Larry Genalo and Michelle Grawe knew something needed to change. The overcrowding led to an “overlapping of sections and multiple classes using the same space at the same time,” said Grawe, the teaching laboratory coordinator for materials science and engineering. “It was hard to manage, and not as safe …Continue reading “Flipped classroom video pre-lab project comes to MSE department”

New staff join Iowa State University Northern Research Farm

The Iowa State University Northern Research and Demonstration Farm has a new manager and a new staff member. Matt Schnabel has been named superintendent of the farm near Kanawha and Karl Nicolaus has been hired to assist management of the farm. Both are Iowa State alumni. Schnabel earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural systems technology …Continue reading “New staff join Iowa State University Northern Research Farm”

Managing big data with efficient algorithms and software

Electrical and computer engineering professor devises technology that helps transform data into usable information. Over the past 10 to 15 years, there has been a big change in the ecosystem of software and hardware for data processing. Srikanta Tirthapura, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, says this change is being driven by favorable economic …Continue reading “Managing big data with efficient algorithms and software”

Intestinal stem cell research recognized by CCFA

Qun Wang, adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, was recently awarded the 2015 Career Award by the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA). Wang joined Iowa State in 2012 after doing his post-doc at the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, where he gained training and a better …Continue reading “Intestinal stem cell research recognized by CCFA”

Iowa State, astronaut Clayton Anderson ready to teach undergrads about spaceflight ops

Twelve undergraduates will learn lessons in operational thinking during the second Spaceflight Operations Workshop to be offered by Iowa State’s Department of Aerospace Engineering. The students will learn from Clayton Anderson, a workshop coordinator who retired from NASA’s astronaut corps in 2013. Anderson said the workshop’s goal isn’t to train the next generation of astronauts. It’s to help students think in new ways.

Helpful tips for nuking an asteroid

The worst-case scenario might be if we discovered an asteroid only a couple of weeks away from slamming into us. Brent Barbee, a flight dynamics engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, believes he has the answer: an interplanetary ballistic missile. Barbee and Bong Wie, the founding director of the Asteroid Deflection Research Center and …Continue reading “Helpful tips for nuking an asteroid”

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