The Jack E. Cermak Medal, one of the most prestigious honors in the field of wind engineering, has been awarded to Department of Aerospace Engineering Professor Partha P. Sarkar.
Month: March 2023
Fatemeh Ganji: Advocating for the world and for women
For Fatemeh Ganji, a second year doctorate student in civil engineering with a focus in water resources, the journey to accessible water for all isn’t just water under the bridge.
Putting the pedal to the metal in road safety: Zoami Calles-Rios Sosa
Putting the pedal to the metal in road safety: Zoami Calles-Rios Sosa shares her influence
The Conversation: Doug Jacobson on the data privacy questions surrounding TikTok
Cyclone Engineer and cybersecurity expert Doug Jacobson wrote about the questions surrounding TikTok’s data privacy in The Conversation.
Stormwater flow: New project seeks more efficient and equitable public stormwater infrastructure
Chris Rehmann, a CoMFRE affiliate faculty member, leads a new stormwater management project that received Iowa State University Strategic Plan Presidential jump start seed funding. The project will work to improve planning and decision-making processes for more equitable and effective public stormwater infrastructure.
Mechanical engineering’s Eliot Winer recognized as Exemplary Faculty Mentor
Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor and Director of the Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC), Eliot Winer, has been named an Exemplary Faculty Mentor for going above and beyond expectations of Iowa State’s mentoring program.
Cyclone engineering seniors receive first place in pitch off competition for automated medicinal sprayer product
The sixth annual Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship college-by-college pitch off was just completed this month – with Belling and Meyer placing first in the “New Idea” category, receiving a $5,000 award. The students participating in the pitch-off have to go through several rounds for the potential to win, and pitch their idea in 90 seconds to panels of judges.
Leon Schumacher: “If we ever needed engineering in agriculture, we need it today”
Before he graduated and ever since, Schumacher has been passionate about engineering in agriculture, believing that the digital revolution is bringing new possibilities to agriculture as we know it.
Dela Houssou: “We need resilient infrastructure more than ever, and AI can help us create it”
Houssou, senior in civil engineering, is conducting research with associate professor Alice Alipour on how to make Iowa’s power infrastructure more resilient to climate change. Due to climate change, natural disasters are becoming more common and severe. Following suit, infrastructure all around Iowa needs to be able to account for more of these dangerous and frequent storms.
The Conversation: Joe Charbonnet on the new PFAS water quality guidelines
Cyclone Engineer and water quality expert Joe Charbonnet explains technology and the investment needed to get forever chemicals out of US drinking water in The Conversation.
Mechanical engineering alum’s good fortune inspired scholarship
Ron McClellen (mechanical engineering, ’61) started a scholarship in 1983 that has helped numerous mechanical engineering seniors pursue their dreams without the added debt. “I now feel that I can have a positive effect on Iowa State long after I am gone.”
Presenting at the FAST’23 conference
ECpE PhD student Tabassum Mahmud, studying computer engineering, and undergrad Carson Love, in cyber security engineering, are two co-authors of a paper “ConfD: Analyzing Configuration Dependencies of File Systems for Fun and Profit” that was accepted to appear at the 2023 USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST’23).
A voice for space: ISU grad Zach Luppen is SpaceX engineer and now host of launch webcasts
The next time you’re watching a live webcast of a SpaceX rocket launch, you just might be listening to a recent Iowa State Aerospace Engineering (AerE) graduate doing the talking.
SoilTech industry-university center to develop technology to measure, track soil health
The research groups, led by Iowa State’s Carmen Gomes and Jonathan Claussen, will be part of a new coast-to-coast, industry-university research hub called the Center for Soil Technologies, or SoilTech. Researchers from four universities just launched the center with a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
Industrial engineering assistant professor wins prestigious Young Investigator Program Award
Danial Davarnia, assistant professor in the department of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, has been selected for the 2023 Young Investigator Program Award by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR).