Archive: 2023

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. Read More

March 23, 2023

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. Read More

March 23, 2023

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. Read More

March 20, 2023

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. Read More

March 20, 2023

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. Read More

March 17, 2023

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. Read More

March 16, 2023

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.” Read More

March 14, 2023

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). Read More

March 10, 2023

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. Read More

March 10, 2023

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. Read More

March 7, 2023

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). Read More

March 6, 2023

Rural agriculture needs reliable communication: Josh Peschel launches new technology in ag hotspots

Josh Peschel, assistant professor in agricultural and biosystems engineering, is linking agriculture and technology together in a nationwide research project funded by the National Science Foundation. The team, led by Hongwei Zhang, a professor in electrical and computer engineering, is launching a test bed for experimentation to develop new, wireless networking tools that would serve remote areas - especially ones here in Iowa. Read More

March 6, 2023

Through the blown glass: Iris Top combines engineering and art

Iris Top is a graduate student at Iowa State University studying computer engineering, with a degree focus in secure and reliable computing. The summer of 2022 marked the end of Top's term as president of the Gaffer’s Guild, a student organization dedicated to the education and training in the art and science of glassblowing. Members are encouraged to take their learning a step further by working on their own to master specific skills or shapes.  Read More

March 3, 2023

Mechanical engineering senior presents biothreat detection research at Iowa State Capitol

Anthony David, senior in mechanical engineering, will present his undergraduate research at the Research in the Capitol Undergraduate Research Symposium on March 6, 2023. His research, “Fabricating Biosensor Platforms for Real-Time Biothreat Detection,” is one of 20 research projects selected to represent Iowa State and one of six engineering projects to be selected. Read More

March 2, 2023

Spaceflight Operations Workshop returns in August – apply now!

Do you have what it takes? If pushing yourself to master new tasks, employing teamwork and following operational thinking to achieve goals sounds like a great way to end your summer, then you need to apply for the Department of Aerospace Engineering’s 2023 Spaceflight Operations Workshop™. Read More

March 2, 2023