Gayle Roberts, president and CEO of Stanley Consultant group, is working hard as a leader and role model for young women looking to pursue engineering. Roberts, who leads a major company in a field that is only comprised of 10-15% women, graduated from Iowa State with a B.S. in chemical engineering in 1981. She began …Continue reading “Roberts leads women in engineering”
On February 25th, Iowa State and the University of Northern Iowa signed an agreement that will allow students to complete a physics degree in three years at the University of Northern Iowa before transferring to Iowa State for two final years to complete an engineering degree. This program, called a “3+2″option, will allow students to graduate …Continue reading “Iowa State, University of Northern Iowa partner on dual degree program”
After retiring from 33 years with Shell in Houston, Joel Anderson started looking into art. Originally interested in woodworking, videos on Jon Peter’s Youtube channel of Peter working with encaustic (a wax-based paint made of beeswax, resin and pigment) caused Anderson to start looking at a new medium. Anderson graduated from Iowa State in 1981 …Continue reading “Things get three dimensional this week with artist Joel Anderson”
While the proposed Student Innovation Center promises excellent space and utilities for student organizations once it is completed, its construction plan is currently causing problems for the same organizations. The Student Innovation Center will be built on the plots where the Nuclear Engineering building and Old Sweeny currently stand, two building that are home to …Continue reading “Student Innovation Center displaces student organizations”
The move to cage-free isn’t cheap. Egg producers spend $30 to $60 per chicken to make the switch from conventional cages to a cage-free, or “aviary,” system, according to the Egg Industry Center at Iowa State University. Most large operations house a million or more birds, so the costs can add up quickly to reach upwards …Continue reading “Xin: Egg industry sprinting to keep up with cage-free demand”
Tens of millions. That’s the number of people Surya Mallapragada has the potential to impact with the groundbreaking biomedical research she and her students are conducting at Iowa State. From cancer treatments to new vaccine technologies, her research’s potential really knows no bounds.
The first time AerE alum Elizabeth Bierman thought about engineering was when she saw the astronaut picture on her new lunch box in fourth grade. Bierman, who currently works for Honeywell as a principal systems engineer, found a flyer for NASA’s Young Astronaut program in that lunchbox and joined the program shortly after. Six months …Continue reading “I Became an Engineer: Because of a lunch box”
Iowa State University engineers have developed a new flexible, stretchable and tunable “meta-skin” that uses rows of small, liquid-metal devices to cloak an object from the sharp eyes of radar. The meta-skin takes its name from metamaterials, which are composites that have properties not found in nature and that can manipulate electromagnetic waves.
To evaluate the agronomic and economic benefits of DeltaForce, Successful Farming magazine asked Matt Darr, associate professor, Iowa State University, and Nathan Paul, operations manager for Iowa Soybean Association On-Farm Network, to calculate return on investment as well as performance results through field trials. For 2015, half of the Boenders’ planter was converted to hydraulic …Continue reading “Darr: On-farm trial compares hydraulic downforce to air bags”
The Iowa State University student chapter of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute will travel to San Francisco April 5-8 to compete in the 2016 Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition. This is an international event, where teams construct model buildings tested to failure on a shake table using earthquake motions. Iowa State’s undergraduate seismic design team consists …Continue reading “CCEE Team Selected To Compete in Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition”
Mary Wickham has been named associate dean for operations and planning at the Iowa State University College of Engineering. Wickham spent 20 years in management and leadership positions at Caterpillar, Inc. before retiring in 2014. She joined Iowa State in 2015 as an adjunct associate professor in the department of aerospace engineering. She began her …Continue reading “Mary Wickham named associate dean for Iowa State University College of Engineering”
