With a passion for research in several facets of construction engineering, assistant professor Yunjeong “Leah” Mo joined the Iowa State University Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering (CCEE) this fall.
Month: September 2022
Meet the new ECpE faculty member: Cheng Wang
Starting this fall, Cheng Wang is a new professor for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECpE). Wang brings extensive experience and research to the department. The following Q and A is a chance to get to know Wang as the semester begins.
A new grant is helping one CBE professor light the way to better semiconductors
A $430,000 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) is helping Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellow and assistant professor Luke Roling develop new materials to build next-generation microelectronic devices.
Bringing robotics to the field: ABE develops robot to analyze crops at pace equivalent to crew of 40 tireless people
After over a decade of work, Iowa State University Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering professor and researcher Lie Tang has fine-tuned and developed a machine to automate phenotype measurements of crops in fields.
CoMFRE jet atomization project captures unseen physics
For the past four years, Kumar Saurabh, a grad student in mechanical engineering, has focused on developing new jet atomization algorithms to accurately capture the formation of droplets and necessary physics.
A project and a conference: Insight to FSI PDE modeling behavior
Pelin Guven Geredeli, an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and CoMFRE affiliate, is conducting two projects that hope to advance multiphase-flow discoveries.
P&S Council members serve fellow staff
For seven College of Engineering staff members, their involvement with Iowa State goes beyond their regular job duties. All are currently serving their fellow employees on the university’s Professional and Scientific Council.
Testing hybrid, soft/hard nanocarriers to deliver drugs to the brain
Rizia Bardhan made a fist with one hand then covered it with her other hand, like a baseball player catching a ball in the web of a fielder’s glove.
The fist represents a special nanocarrier filled with medicine, said the Iowa State University associate professor of chemical and biological engineering. The other hand represents a cell working out whether to catch that nanoparticle then take it, drugs and all, across its protective membrane into its interior.
Lettuce deliver: Nick Herrig engineers tech solutions for fresh greens-to-doorstep startup
Nick Herrig (‘17 indust engr) is the lead software engineer for Clayton Farms, an Ames-based startup that delivers soil-free-grown produce to customers’ homes – the same day it’s harvested.
After graduating and working in process improvement and IT for large companies for a few years, Herrig realized he was still hungry for the fast-paced world of startups.
New hydrogen harvesting process and high-impact publication
Graduate students Hengzhou Liu and Arna Ganguly helped develop a greener process for producing hydrogen from water or biomass – and are first authors on a high-impact publication on their discoveries.
Fermentation scale-up research jumps the lab-to-production gap
A group of Iowa State researchers, led by Rodney Fox, CoMFRE executive director, is collaborating with Cargill and Genomatica to scale-up of fermentation processes. The award was announced this week at the White House Summit on the National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative.
BioMADE project advances bioreactor fermentation processing
Cyclone Engineers are collaborating with Cargill and Genomatica to scale-up fermentation processes in bioreactors in a new $2.5 million project. The award was announced this week at the White House Summit on the National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative.
Greener hydrogen fuel production – with a solid carbon bonus
Cyclone Engineers are joining forces in a $4 million project to make hydrogen fuel production more environmentally sustainable.
CCEE senior Caleb Stevenson receives ISU alums’ Burg-Coleman Fellowship
The Burg-Colman Iowa State ‘77 Fellowship was created in 2021 to award students who are studying an advanced degree in civil engineering. Caleb Stevenson, a senior studying Civil Engineering at Iowa State University, will become the first-ever recipient of this fellowship.
NASA selects MSE professor to test materials for future missions
NASA has selected five different ground-based proposals to investigate important problems using existing data from the Physical Sciences Informatics System and Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) assistant professor Sid Pathak’s proposal was one of those chosen.