A feature article about Iowa State University alumni C.G. “Turk” and Joyce A. McEwen Therkildsen.
Month: September 2021
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.
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.
Now hiring: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in ECpE
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECpE) in the College of Engineering at Iowa State University invites applications for multiple tenure-track or tenured faculty positions in electrical and computer engineering. Appointment level will be based on each candidate’s experience.
Student applies ME knowledge to develop prosthetics for amputee athletes
Mechanical engineering student Jillian Dunn has a passion for helping others. She spent her summer doing just that.
Black and Veatch Faculty Fellowship for Roling’s computational tools-based research
Luke Roling, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, was recently named a Black and Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellow in Engineering.
In memory of David Wilder, former MSE department chair and alumnus
David Wilder, professor emeritus and former chair of the Iowa State University Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), passed away on Aug. 18, 2021, at the age of 92. He retired from Iowa State in May 1991 after a long and impactful career.
Iowa State University students innovate environmentally sustainable solutions during Energy Vault Sprint
Ten Iowa State University students, including eight from the College of Engineering, are thinking green and digging into environmentally sustainable solutions in energy as part of a collaboration with the Student Innovation Center and innovation design sprint corporate sponsor, Energy Vault.
Powerhouse of the cell, key to new treatments
Cyclone Engineers are developing a comprehensive mitochondrial genetic toolkit. The toolkit will be used to untangle the complex nature of mitochondrial genetics and the impact mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations have on health disorders like type 2 diabetes, cancers and neurological disorders.
Poleacovschi writes in The Conversation: For engineers, asking for help at work is influenced by gender
CCEE’s Cristina Poleacovschi has found that, for engineers, asking for help is influenced by gender. Women are more likely to feel knowledge is easy to access and are more likely to ask women colleagues questions.
The Conversation: For engineers, asking for help at work is influenced by gender
Cristina Poleacovschi
Assistant Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, wrote in The Conversation findings that women engineers were more likely feel that knowledge was easy to access and were more likely to ask women colleagues questions.
AerE’s Stephen Holland Selected Fellow of American Society for Nondestructive Testing
Stephen Holland, associate professor of aerospace engineering and associate director of Iowa State’s Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, has been named a Fellow of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) class of 2021. Since joining Iowa State in 2006, Holland has made significant contributions to multiple aerospace and NDE research and teaching innovations.
Finding My Place at Iowa State
One student’s journey to discover how the Innovation Fellows program helped shape her freshman year.
From Fellow to Innovator-in-Residence
Stanley to bridge the gap between industry leaders and students
Principal Financial Design Sprint
Iowa State University students innovate financial plans for future generations during Principal Financial Group internship