Cyclone Engineer Nigel Reuel is leading development of a closed, contact-free diagnostic sensing system that could be used to quickly test for COVID-19 or other outbreaks.
Month: July 2020
ME graduate student earns top ASME Fluid Engineering Division award
Roy Pillers, mechanical engineering graduate student, was named the 2020 FED Prof. Kirti Ghia Scholar. The Fluids Engineering Division [of ASME] selects several students representing a different technical committee and awards them the ASME FED Graduate Student Scholar (GSS) Award. The Prof. Kirti Ghia Scholar award is the highest and most prestigious of these awards recognizing the best graduate student submission for the conference.
InTrans director awarded Faculty Mentor Award
Director of the Institute for Transportation Shauna Hallmark has been awarded the Exemplary Faculty Mentor Award. This award recognizes faculty members within Iowa State’s mentoring program who exceed expectations and are nominated by “mentees” to receive this award. 2020 is the seventh year the Exemplary Faculty Mentor awards have been awarded. Hallmark is one of …Continue reading “InTrans director awarded Faculty Mentor Award”
Machine learning model may perfect 3D nanoprinting
ECpE Assistant Professor Cheng Huang receives first major grant from NSF
Cheng Huang, assistant professor with the Iowa State University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECpE), has received his first major grant through the National Science Foundation (NSF) since joining Iowa State in 2018. Throughout his career, Huang has focused on the research and development of various types of power management integrated circuits (PMICs). He …Continue reading “ECpE Assistant Professor Cheng Huang receives first major grant from NSF”
Engineers find thinner tissues in replacement heart valves create problematic flutter
CYstarter summer: Three students launch startups in entrepreneurship accelerator program
Three Cyclone Engineering students are building new, innovative businesses this summer as members of the 2020 CYstarters cohort. CYstarters is an 11-week program giving Iowa State students with a passion for entrepreneurship the funding, skill development and mentorship to start their business while still in school.
EPRC Student Scoop: Yuxuan Yuan improves data analysis
Third-year Iowa State University electrical and computer engineering (ECpE) Ph.D. student Yuxuan Yuan has dedicated his research to working to improve the efficiency of the analysis and application of data to power systems. Yuan does this by taking data collected by government and power utility companies, and finding new ways to more effectively interpret it. …Continue reading “EPRC Student Scoop: Yuxuan Yuan improves data analysis”
Engineers find thinner tissues in replacement heart valves create problematic flutter
Iowa State and University of Texas engineers have developed high-fidelity computational models of replacement heart valves to examine the performance of biological tissues built into the valves. They found that thinner tissues can flap and flutter, which can damage the valves and even the blood that flows by.
Iowa State University and partners selected as a finalist for major National Science Foundation research grant focused on rural broadband
For more information contact: Hongwei Zhang, ISU College of Engineering, hongwei@iastate.edu Mike Krapfl, ISU news services, mkrapfl@iastate.edu AMES, IA – The Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a consortium of 35 leading wireless companies and associations, has announced that a research project led by Iowa State …Continue reading “Iowa State University and partners selected as a finalist for major National Science Foundation research grant focused on rural broadband”
ASME Mechanical Engineering magazine: Giving Design Jobs to Machines
Shields receives learning communities early achievement award
Civil engineering academic advisor Katie Shields was awarded the 2020 Learning Communities Early Achievement in Learning Community Coordination Award in June. This award is given by the director of Learning Communities to an Iowa State faculty or staff member who has demonstrated outstanding performance in learning community coordination early within their careers. Shields has been …Continue reading “Shields receives learning communities early achievement award”
Simulating, assessing damage to brain cells caused by bubbles during head trauma
Researchers led by Nicole Hashemi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, are using their expertise with the manufacture of microstructures to study how the collapse of microbubbles within the skull can damage brain cells. Their research, which is supported by the Office of Naval Research, could lead to the design of better helmets.
CCEE graduate student receives women’s scholarship for excellence in the transportation field
Wasama Abdullah, a second-year graduate student in transportation engineering, received the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) Helene Overly graduate scholarship in January in recognition of her outstanding commitment to the transportation field.
COVID-19 seed grants awarded to Cyclone Engineering teams
Iowa State’s Office of the Vice President for Research has selected four teams led by or including Cyclone Engineering researchers for COVID-19 project seed funding.