Is your sister like a best friend? Is your best friend like a sister? Can she help you with your chem lab? “All of these things,” said Emma and Molly White and Ru-Shyan and Ru-Huey Yen, a pair of twin sisters and close friends who met in high school 16 years ago.
CHICAGO, IL (March 11, 2016) Raths, Raths & Johnson, Inc. (RRJ), a national engineering, architecture, and forensics consulting firm, located in Willowbrook, Illinois, is pleased to announce that George R. Mulholland, S.E., P.E. has been promoted to Senior Consulting Engineer. An accomplished structural engineer with 28 years of professional experience, George is an expert forensic engineer specializing in the evaluation, investigation, and repair of distressed facades, buildings, and structures. As a Senior Consulting Engineer, he is responsible for project management and client development across RRJ’s range of expert consulting services.
Luke T. Mohrhauser has recently been named a member of the law firm McKee, Voorhees & Sease, PLC where he was previously an associate attorney. Luke joined the firm after graduating with honors from Creighton University School of Law in 2009. Prior to that he clerked at the firm while still at Creighton. His undergraduate …Continue reading “Alumnus named member of law firm McKee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C.”
Tulsa, OK ― Dr. Sadanand D. Joshi will receive the Society of Petroleum Engineering IOR (Improved Oil Recovery) Pioneer Award at the 2016 SPE IOR Symposium in Tulsa, OK, on April 11, 2016.
In the spring, two types of grain bin safety incidents tend to happen more often, according to Chuck Schwab, Iowa State University Extension safety specialist. Both incidents happen when stored grain wasn’t kept in the best condition or had moisture build up over the winter, he says. In the first scenario, clumps of spoiled grain …Continue reading “Schwab: Tips to safeguard stored grain”
Iowa State University’s agriculture and biosystems engineering program jumped another spot to No. 2 in U.S. News and World Report’s national graduate school rankings released on March 16, 2016. The College of Engineering tied for 48th overall and tied for 26th among public universities compared to rankings of 43rd and 24th last year. Here are …Continue reading “College of Engineering remains consistent in U.S. News and World Report’s 2017 Best Graduate Schools rankings”
FOX Engineering Associates, Inc. of Ames, proudly announces the additions of Lauren Nitchals-Clark, E.I., and Daniel L. Willers to the firm.
Norio Nakagawa is scientist II for the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation and an adjunct professor of aerospace engineering at Iowa State University. In this post, he talks about the global effort involved in the recent discovery of gravitational waves and shares his experience with a related project. Disclaimer to start with: This ISU researcher did …Continue reading “Contributions to the discovery of gravitational waves come in all sizes”
Though not chosen to advance to competition weekend, materials engineering senior Andrew Kitahara and the ISU Hyperloop team walked away from the SpaceX Hyperloop Competition Design Weekend with a bigger prize: the desire to continue working to revolutionize the world. Kitahara and the ISU Hyperloop team competed in the Design Weekend held January 29 and …Continue reading “ISU Hyperloop returns from Design Weekend with new name, focus”
Tonia Baxter, an academic advisor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, was honored with a CYtation Award from the Iowa State University Professional and Scientific Council in ceremonies March 10. CYtation Award nominees have performed above and beyond the call of duty, performed a job function extraordinarily well, and have acted in a …Continue reading “CBE advisor Tonia Baxter’s work is recognized with CYtation Award”
This year’s Best Student Paper Award in the Microfluidics, BioMEMS, and Medical Microsystems section of SPIE Photonics West (BIOS) was presented to Iowa State graduate students and faculty for their presentation, “Transfer molding processes for nanoscale patterning of poly-L-lactic acid (PLLA) films.” This is a collaborative project being performed in ECpE and the Microelectronics Research …Continue reading “Best Student Paper Award at Photonics West 2016”
The Iowa State AGC student chapter recently received its 10th first-place finish as Outstanding Student Chapter. The award recognizes work the group completed in the Ames community, Tennessee and Nevada.
The Iowa State University chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) is headed for the group’s annual regional student conference, and donations are being sought to help with this chance to showcase chemical engineering education at Iowa State. The AIChE chapter is planning to send 35 members to the MidAmerica Regional Conference at …Continue reading “CBE student group heading for regional conference; support sought”
Adina Howe was a postdoctoral fellow at Michigan State University with C. Titus Brown (now Associate Professor of Genetics at the University of California, Davis) when she found herself trying to assemble bacterial genomes from metagenomics data sets so large—nearly 400 billion bases worth—that the assembler software couldn’t keep up. “They would require hundreds of …Continue reading “Howe: Making sense of big data”
Dr. Christopher J. Ellison, associate professor of chemical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, was named the recipient of the 2016 Norman Hackerman Award. Ellison, who has been a professor at UT for nearly eight years, graduated from Iowa State in 2000 with a B.S. in chemical engineering before going on to earn …Continue reading “Chris Ellison announced as 2016 Norman Hackerman Award recipient”
