Four outstanding Cyclone Engineers will receive College of Engineering alumni awards at the 2023 ISU Alumni Association Honors and Awards Ceremony.
Month: October 2023
Joel Rieken named 2023 Cyclone Engineering Young Alumni Award winner
Joel Rieken (’06, PhD ’11 materials engineering) is a materials engineering innovator and leader on the rise. He’s the vice president of the global atomization division at Linde Advanced Material Technologies, Inc. and an entrepreneur: while still an Iowa State student, he co-founded Iowa Powder Atomization Technologies (IPAT).
Brittany Hartwell named 2023 Cyclone Engineering Young Alumni Award winner
Brittany Hartwell (’11 chemical engineering) is a biomedical engineer advancing therapies and vaccines for illnesses affecting millions worldwide. As an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Minnesota, her research in immunoengineering is making progress in the fight against autoimmune and infectious diseases.
Sunil Gaitonde receives Cyclone Engineering’s Professional Citation in Engineering for outstanding career accomplishments
Sunil Gaitonde (MS ’85, PhD ’88 computer engineering) has combined state-of-the-art technology development with an entrepreneurial spirit to drive success at companies helping businesses manage and build their online capabilities.
Gale “Cork” M. Peterson, Jr. receives Cyclone Engineering’s highest alumni honor, the Anson Marston Medal
Gale “Cork” M. Peterson, Jr. (’66 construction engineering) is a visionary principal of Peterson Contractors, Inc. (PCI), a nationally-regarded, Iowa-based company that has innovated ground improvement installation and heavy-highway construction since 1964.
Intelligent roadmap: Collaborative, cutting-edge methods to create new alloys
Anson Marston Distinguished Professor Duane Johnson and professor Jun Cui have been working together for years, collaborating on finding solutions for real-world problems while improving materials and research processes.
Iowa Cyber Hub enlists ‘Cybersecurity Ambassadors’ to help their communities
“I’ve always had a goal of every Iowan understanding basic cybersecurity. But there’s only one of me and 3 million of them,” said Doug Jacobson. Soon there will be many more cyber guardians like Jacobson in Iowa as a legion of trained volunteers help their communities learn cybersecurity.
“Revolutionary” multi-material for light-based 3D printing
Adarsh Krishnamurthy co-leads a new $800,000 project to identify and study single resins that can create different materials and properties – such as stiffness – when exposed to different light wavelengths.
“We want to produce two material properties with the same resin. That’s revolutionary in terms of materials for Digital Light Processing 3D printing,” said Krishnamurthy.
For Matthew Poling, transferring means getting real experience in his field
Matthew Poling knew he wanted to get his hands dirty after transferring to Iowa State, with in-the-field learning to help him grow into a career in the agricultural industry.
Bethany Danley builds community for transfer students
When Bethany Danley transferred to Iowa State, she found community in WiSE and Alpha Sigma Kappa Women in Technical Studies. Now she’s creating connections for new transfer students.
Belle Finney: Cutting-edge opportunities at a national lab
“It was nice coming from a smaller
college to a department in a larger
university that still maintains the support and communication of a smaller college.”
James Rodgers’ first step after transferring? Hands-on research
“Last summer, before I even started taking classes at Iowa State, I got experience working on using machine learning to predict the angle of view between two images of the same object, taken from different angles.”
Structural change: Marissa Recker’s transfer keeps her on pace to civil engineering career
Marissa Recker transferred to Iowa State at the beginning of her junior year to major in civil engineering. She found a community in her classes and clubs – and that employers are eager to hire Cyclone Engineers.
Exceptional contributions: Mufit Akinc and Ick-Jhin Rick Yoon inducted into MSE Hall of Fame
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering inducted two new members to the Materials Science and Engineering Hall of Fame in a ceremony on Friday, Oct. 13 – honoring both for outstanding achievement and contributions to the discipline.
James Rodgers gets inspired by research
James Rodgers, a junior studying software engineering, spent his 2023 summer as an IINSPIRE-LSAMP undergraduate mentee. IINSPIRE LSAMP, or the Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, is a Midwest STEM partnership for innovation in research and education and focuses on increasing the number of STEM bachelor’s and graduate degrees awarded to populations historically underrepresented in STEM fields.