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Archive: 2022

  • CCEE Faculty Inspecting a bridge in Madison County, IA
    Testing Bridge Safety: CCEE’s Brent Phares Designs Framework to Enhance Bridge Load Rating Efficiency

    With over 600,000 bridges in the United States, bridge safety and longevity is critical to safe transportation in America. By mandate, each bridge is evaluated at least every two years through a process called ‘bridge load rating,’ testing things like endurance and deterioration. But when considering the work put in to inspect every single bridge in the U.S. every two years, bridge load rating as we know it is very labor intensive and potentially costly. Read More

    March 28, 2022

  • The Pithans pose inside Marston Hall
    A foundation for a successful career

    It was pretty much love at first sight for Larry Pithan and Pam Stoll, though even they admit it is difficult to pinpoint when exactly that “first sight” occurred. Read More

    March 25, 2022

  • CCEE Announces 2022 Hall of Fame and Distinguished Alumni Inductees

    This year, four alumni are be inducted into the Hall of Fame, and nine are being inducted as Distinguished Alumni. Read More

    March 24, 2022

  • The Stoufer family smiles for a photo while attending an Iowa State Cyclones football games in the 2000s.
    ME student continues his family’s now five-generation legacy at Iowa State

    When mechanical engineering (ME) senior Nathan Stoufer walks across the commencement stage at the end of the semester, he will be following a legacy that his family established more than a century ago. Read More

    March 24, 2022

  • Celebrating Women in CCEE: Lauren Bockholt

    Celebrating Women's History Month this March, Iowa State University Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering is highlighting past, present and future women in engineering. Lauren Bockholt, a Senior Project Engineer at Ryan Companies, is an Iowa State Alumni graduating with her bachelor's in construction engineering (ConE) in 2017 and her master's in structural engineering in 2018. She has always been structurally minded and has been making architects' visions a reality in the field in her career. Read More

    March 23, 2022

  • Former jarhead is a lifelong gearhead

    Even in his free time, one Cyclone engineer is constantly approaching things with an engineering mindset. Read More

    March 23, 2022

  • Chem-E-Car team photo at competition
    CBE’s AIChE student group to host regional conference at Iowa State in April

    The chemical engineering spotlight will shine brightly on the Iowa State University campus April 8-10. That’s when the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) will host the Institute’s 2022 Mid-America Student Regional Conference. Read More

    March 22, 2022

  • Engineers From Ghana Visit ISU for Collaborative Research

    This semester, Iowa State University’s Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering professor Dirk Maier and doctorate student George Obeng-Akrofi hosted fellow members of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology’s Engineers Without Borders (EWB-KNUST) student organization in Kumasi, Ghana.  Read More

    March 21, 2022

  • Like father, like son

    As a teenager Ken Schoeneck, Jr. was intent on not following in his father’s footsteps by pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering (ME) from Iowa State University. However, after exploring his options he came to find that Iowa State was in fact the best fit for him. Read More

    March 21, 2022

  • Celebrating Women in CCEE: Beena Ajmera

    Celebrating Women’s History Month this March, Iowa State University Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering is highlighting past, present and future women in civil engineering. Beena Ajmera is an assistant professor in CCEE, and has made many monumental contributions to the civil engineering field. Read More

    March 10, 2022

  • CCEE Provides Hands-On Undergraduate Research Opportunities

    For many students, it can be difficult to gain real-world research experience while attending classes at the same time. Because it can be hard to balance learning and research, Director of Graduate Education (DOGE) and professor Omar Smadi in the Iowa State University Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering (CCEE) started a new, hands-on undergraduate research program in the department. This will be the second year of the program, after a year of many positive experiences from students. Read More

    March 7, 2022

  • Cyclone engineers advance fluids research at Argonne National Lab

    A team of mechanical engineering researchers were able to advance their research in the field of atomization and sprays by utilizing the resources available at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. Read More

    March 7, 2022

  • PhD student Cicero Pola part of 2022-23 Brown Graduate Fellowship Program

    Cicero is currently doing research on the design and analysis of graphene-based electrochemical sensors for the detection of relevant food safety and public health targets including virus, foodborne pathogens and food allergens. Among his achievements is his number of peer-reviewed publications. He has already published 22 peer-reviewed articles in high impact journals, 15 peer-reviewed articles since he joined Iowa State University, five book chapters, [and] one patent. These are all a testament of his dedication and research excellence. Read More

    March 3, 2022

  • Celebrating Women in CCEE: Nicole Martindale

    To celebrate Women’s History Month this March, we wanted to highlight past, present, and future women in civil engineering. Nicole Martindale is a current senior in Civil Engineering and a Cyclone through and through. Read More

    March 2, 2022

  • Innovation Fellow Jed Wyse: The College Tour

    Junior Jed, an Engineering major, talks about the many aspects of innovation that takes place at ISU. Read More

    March 2, 2022