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Archive: Sep 2021

  • Dan Shechtman sits in front of a microscope
    Ames Tribune: Nobel Prize Laureate and MSE Distinguished Professor Dan Shechtman visiting Ames

    Dan "Danny" Shechtman won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work discovering what are known as quasicrystals. He's a distinguished professor in Iowa State's materials science and engineering department and he's worked with the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory. Shechtman is visiting Ames for three weeks this fall. Read More

    September 30, 2021

  • Headshot of Iowa State University alum Denis Bbosa. He is wearing a black shirt and a blue tie.
    Alum appointed deputy dean at Ugandan university

    Three-time Iowa State University alum Denis Bbosa has been named the deputy dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology at Mbarara University in Uganda, which is the approximate equivalent of the College of Engineering at Iowa State University. Read More

    September 30, 2021

  • ECpE alum Joel E. Lorentzen writes novel about a disturbing vision of the future

    We’ve all heard about George Orwell’s dystopian novel "1984." But what about our future? That’s the question Joel E. Lorentzen tries to answer in his novel "Proles: A Novel About 2084." Read More

    September 30, 2021

  • A headshot of mechanical engineering professor Eliot Winer.
    Developing a skilled workforce in rural Iowa using advanced learning technologies

    A team of interdisciplinary researchers at Iowa State University will study ways that they can utilize digital teaching technologies to effectively develop a robust workforce that will serve Iowa’s rural communities. Read More

    September 30, 2021

  • LTI logo
    Laser Technology Inc. shearography camera donation advances CNDE capabilities

    Laser Technology Inc. (LTI) has donated a LTI-2100 Digital Shearography Camera and its accessories to Iowa State University’s Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE). The gift will expand CNDE’s research and education capabilities into shearography, a laser interferometric imaging NDE technique for detecting and measuring a range of defects on metallic and composite materials. Read More

    September 30, 2021

  • Iowa State University Center for Cybersecurity Innovation & Outreach to host CyIO Week, Oct. 6-9

    The Iowa State University Center for Cybersecurity Innovation & Outreach (CyIO) will host CyIO Week from Wednesday through Saturday, Oct. 6-9, 2021. CyIO Week includes an Industry Day, Research Day, Education Day and a Cyber Defense Competition. Read More

    September 28, 2021

  • CoMFRE graduate student earns prestigious DoD SMART Scholarship

    Justin Lajoie, a mechanical engineering graduate student working with Travis Sipple in multiphase flows, has received the Department of Defense, Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship. The scholarship fully funds his education and allows him to focus on his research. Read More

    September 28, 2021

  • Iowa State University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    ECpE department welcomes new faculty, staff

    The Iowa State University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering welcomes several new faculty and staff to the department for the 2021-22 school year. Read More

    September 24, 2021

  • Iowa State University Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
    Two with CCEE ties elected to the National Academy of Construction

    Two Cyclone Engineers have been elected to the National Academy of Construction 2021 class. Vilas S Mujumdar, professor of practice in civil, construction and environmental engineering, and alumnus Rao Surampalli (’85 PhD civil engr) are being recognized for their outstanding contributions to the field. Read More

    September 20, 2021

  • Q&A with International Space Station astronauts in live broadcast Sept. 27; time confirmed for 11:10 a.m.

    Questions from youth across Iowa will be asked of astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in a live broadcast arranged by the Iowa Space Grant Consortium and Iowa State Extension and Outreach. Read More

    September 17, 2021

  • Iowa State’s undergrad IE program ranked 20th

    Iowa State University’s undergraduate program in industrial engineering is ranked 20th in the nation, according to the “Best Colleges 2022” rankings released by U.S. News and World Report. Iowa State’s IE program, which was first established at Iowa State in 1919, is one of just three programs within the College of Engineering to crack the top 25. Read More

    September 17, 2021

  • Turk and Joyce Therkildsen pose and smile inside Marston Hall.
    Building for the Future

    Thanks to a $42 million gift commitment from C.G. “Turk” and Joyce A. McEwen Therkildsen, the department will have a new facility that will serve as its home and provide technically enhanced research laboratory and learning spaces where industrial engineering students can gain the knowledge to design tomorrow’s innovative, nimble and intelligent processes needed now more than ever across all industrial sectors. Read More

    September 15, 2021

  • Black and white senior photos of Charles George “Turk” Therkildsen and Joyce Arlene McEwen Therkildsen from the 1959 Iowa State University yearbook.
    The Power of Love, Education and an Entrepreneurial Spirit

    A feature article about Iowa State University alumni C.G. “Turk” and Joyce A. McEwen Therkildsen. Read More

    September 15, 2021

  • Jacob Schmieder smiles while dressed in his marching band uniform and holding his trumpet.
    Lights. Instruments. Action!

    The Iowa State University Cyclone Football 'Varsity' Marching Band is performing during the 2018 Band Extravaganza. The drumline is equipped with lights that flash different colors every time they hit their drums and the crowd goes wild over the spectacle. This is when Jacob Schmieder, a trumpet player in the band, came up with a business idea. Read More

    September 15, 2021

  • Iowa State University Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
    CCEE’s Alipour and Shafei receive Bridging the Divide grant to address disaster response

    Alice Alipour and Behrouz Shafei, both Cerwick Faculty Fellows and associate professors of civil, construction and environmental engineering, are on an interdisciplinary team of Iowa State University researchers selected to receive the 2021 Bridging the Divide seed grant. The $25,000 award will be used to investigate methods of expediting post-disaster safety assessments of structures. Read More

    September 14, 2021