The Quad City Mallards hockey game this Friday will serve as a benefit for the foundation honoring a ME alum. Nick Theodore Strub (BSME’04) was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma in 2008. “Ewing sarcoma is a type of tumor that forms from a certain kind of cell in bone or soft tissue” and is most common in …Continue reading “Upcoming Quad City Mallards game to serve as benefit for foundation of late ME alum”
Team CyFly, the lone United States team remaining in the global Airbus Fly Your Ideas Challenge, is in the midst of Round 2 as they refine their concept and construct mockups. The team is is one of 50 teams remaining in the competition to develop ideas for how to change the future of aviation. If they …Continue reading “Team CyFly finalizing prototype for Airbus competition”
Michaela Spaulding, a junior in aerospace engineering, was selected as a Brooke Owens Fellow for 2017. The Brooke Owens Fellowship Program is an organization that offers internships at leading aviation and space companies for women seeking careers in aviation or space exploration. Spaulding was one of 36 recipients of the fellowship, and will intern at …Continue reading “AerE student Michaela Spaulding selected as a Brooke Owens Fellow”
Akash Vidyadharan and Tyler Carter spent the first part of last summer applying for jobs in anticipation of receiving their master’s degree in the spring of 2017. For the second half of the summer, they worked on a project that has caught the attention of investors, corporations, as well government officials. “One year ago, this …Continue reading “Graduate students’ startup makes a strong first impression”
Iowa State University’s electrical and computer engineering Professor Doug Jacobson was featured in article published on WalletHub.com. The article, which discussed whether Bitcoin is safe or not, features several professional opinions, including Jacobson’s. Bitcoin is a type of digital currency that uses encryption techniques to regulate the units of currency and verify the transfer of …Continue reading “ECpE’s Jacobson consulted on safety of Bitcoin”
By Jill O’Brien. This article was published on iowastatedaily.com. Click here to read the article in its entirety. As part of the Women’s Leadership Series, Kathryn Thornton spoke about her time working for NASA on Monday night in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union. Thornton worked at NASA for 12 years, participating in three …Continue reading “Kathryn Thornton lecture inspires STEM students, space lovers”
Professors use newest learning models to encourage real-world problem-solving Brandon Sleep preps thoroughly for any construction engineering (ConE) 322 lecture. He doesn’t mind watching video lectures outside of class. That’s because ConE 322 is a hybrid learning classroom. Students have to come prepared. “We do the homework in class, and we have a guide from the lectures …Continue reading ““Ahead of the game:” Active and hybrid learning take foothold in CCEE curriculum”
Dr. Mufit Akinc has received the Fulbright Grant to Turkey for the 2017-2018 academic year. He will become Senior Lecturer at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey, for the spring semester of 2018. Dr. Akinc currently holds many titles at Iowa State University. He is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and …Continue reading “Akinc selected as a Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Ankara, Turkey”
Iowa State University will conduct a five-year research project that will study the impact of pipeline construction on crop production and soil compaction.
Iowa State University has a strong reputation for leading the pack nationally in engineering. Recently, that reputation was recognized by two different organizations. Guide to Online Schools, an independent online research group, ranked Iowa State Computer Engineering number one for their online master’s program. The rankings were based on affordability, academic strength and more. This placed …Continue reading “Iowa State Computer and Software Engineering ranked nationally”
A Disney internship just might be the happiest internship on earth for Iowa State fifth-year senior Emily Carter. After all, she’s dreamed of working at Disney ever since she can remember. As it turns out, Iowa State was the place that could help make her dream come true. In our industrial engineering program, Carter found …Continue reading “A magical adventure”
The Iowa Pork Producers Association (IPPA) presented its 2016 Iowa Environmental Steward Award to Black Hawk County Farm Bureau members Ben and Anna Bader of Jesup. The Baders are part owners and operators of Bader Farms with Ben’s parents, Lee and Debra. Ben’s portion of the family farm consists of a 1,000-head feeder-to-finish swine barn …Continue reading “AST alum earns IPPA environmental award”
Matt Darr, an Iowa State University professor of ag and biosystems engineering, sees new opportunities in digital agriculture. “It’s about using precision information to help farmers do things better, more efficiently and profitably.”
The new report outlines Iowa State research led by Hongwei Xin and colleagues, who developed adaptations for cage-free egg production systems that improve indoor-air quality and allow more farmers to respond to consumer demand by adapting cage-free systems.
Each year, the non-profit organization Future Founders select the top student entrepreneurs in the nation. Iowa State University’s very own Brendon Geils, senior in electrical engineering, has been named one of the 17 entrepreneurs who were selected to participate in the 2017 fellowship. Geils co-founded Sodima Solutions, which is a chat technology company with a …Continue reading “Senior in ECpE is selected for 2017 Future Founders Fellowship”
