The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Iowa State University is now accepting applications for the Biological Materials and Processes Research Experience for Undergraduates (BioMaP REU) program. Applications will be accepted through May 8, 2016. The application form and more information may be found at www.cbe.iastate.edu/research/undergraduate-research A program flier can be found here. Participation …Continue reading “Undergraduates invited to apply for CBE summer research program”
At Iowa State, integrating engineering into K-12 classrooms is a collaborative effort that spans across campus and into surrounding school districts. Trinect, a program funded by the National Science Foundation STEM-C Partnerships, brings together three groups to introduce engineering concepts to young students: engineering graduate students, preservice teacher students and cooperating elementary teachers from Des Moines Public Schools.
CE 105 takes a trip to water treatment plant construction site What does it take to give one class a first-hand look at their future profession? For Hans van Leeuwen’s CE 105 class, it took two trips to the new water treatment plant being built in Ames. Van Leeuwen, the Vlasta Klima Balloun Professor of …Continue reading “Civil engineering class gets field experience”
David C. Jiles, Palmer Endowed Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University, is among the new Fellows elected to the Learned Society of Wales in 2016. LSW Fellows are distinguished men and women from all branches of learning who are prominent figures within their respective academic disciplines or professions. The …Continue reading “Jiles named Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales”
Martin Thuo likes to look for new, affordable and clean ways to put science and technology to work in the world. His lab is dedicated to an idea called frugal innovation: “How do you do very high-level science or engineering with very little?” said Thuo, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Iowa State University and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory.
The Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship at Iowa State University has announced the teams that will be a part of their first summer “CYstarters” program. The program, which takes place over 10 weeks from May 23 to July 29 at Iowa State, will allow teams access to between $6,000-$12,000 in funding, access to industry mentors, educational …Continue reading “Eight ISU teams selected for start-up program”
The CEO of Prince Manufacturing Corporation, George Sully, began his retirement on April 1. Sully graduated from Iowa State in 1972 with a B.S. in mechanic engineering. He had been working for Prince since 1980 and was originally hired to develop the corporation’s R&D laboratory. Sully will be succeeded by Dan Van Eldik. To read the full story …Continue reading “Prince Manufacturing announces retirements”
Five College of Engineering students have received the Dean’s Student Leadership Award for 2016. The recipients are Christian Miller (senior in biological systems engineering), Erika Vaassen (December 2015 graduate in chemical engineering), Rebecca Harmon (senior in chemical engineering), Sheila Evans (senior in aerospace engineering) and Eli Reiser (senior in chemical engineering). Juniors and seniors are nominated for the award based …Continue reading “2016 Dean’s Student Leadership Award recipients named”
AMES, Iowa- The year-long process of planning, designing, and constructing a capstone project finally reached the finish line yesterday for a group of Aerospace Engineering seniors. The students from Iowa State University collaborated with seniors from North Carolina A&T State University to take part in Boeing’s Senior Design Competition. The year is 2040 and the students have …Continue reading “Aer E Seniors Present Capstone Projects to Boeing Engineers”
Team PrISUm, Iowa State’s solar car team, unveiled two advances on April 21. The first was its 2016 version of the solar car which includes a new, more energy-efficient engine. The second advance was plans for a new vehicle in 2017 which will be a four-person, street-legal solar vehicle. The anticipated costs for the 2017 vehicle …Continue reading “ISU team to build street-legal solar car”
ECpE alum, James Mitchell, P.E. (EE ‘82), may have created the world’s first digital outgoing telephone message machine during his time at Iowa State University. Mitchell displayed a working prototype of the digital outgoing message with a taped incoming system at the Iowa State University VEISHEA Engineering Open House in April 1982. Using 35 integrated …Continue reading “VEISHEA project could be first digital answering machine”
