Archive: 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. Read More

September 14, 2021

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. Read More

September 13, 2021

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. Read More

September 13, 2021

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. Read More

September 13, 2021

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. Read More

September 12, 2021

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. Read More

September 9, 2021

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. Read More

September 9, 2021