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Eight NSF CAREER awards in 2024 for Iowa State Engineering

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Danial Davarnia, NSF CAREER award winner

Danial Davarnia

Assistant professor
Industrial and manufacturing systems engineering


Project: 
Novel Parallelization Frameworks for Large-Scale Network Optimization with Combinatorial Requirements: Solution Methods and Applications. 

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Cheng Huang, NSF CAREER award winner

Cheng Huang

Assistant professor
Electrical and computer engineering


Project:
Towards 3D Omnidirectional and Efficient Wireless Power.

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Jong Lee, NSF CAREER award winner

John Lee

Assistant professor
Mechanical engineering


Project:
Unveiling the Structure and Stability of Prenucleation Clusters and their Roles in Crystallization Pathway and Final Crystal Structure. 

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Sid Pathak, NSF CAREER award winner

Sid Pathak

Assistant professor
Materials science and engineering


Project:
Towards a Fundamental Understanding of Interface Strain-Driven Pseudomorphic Phase Transformations in Multilayered Nanocomposites.

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Joshua Peschel, NSF CAREER award winner

Josh Peschel

Associate professor
Agricultural and biosystems engineering


Project:
Foundational Interaction Research for Manipulating Drones.

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Hugo Villegas Pico, NSF CAREER award winner

Hugo Villegas Pico

Assistant professor
Electrical and computer engineering


Project:
Advances to the EMT Modeling and Simulation of Restoration Processes for Future Grids.

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Ethan Secor, NSF CAREER award winner

Ethan Secor

Assistant professor
Mechanical engineering


Project:
Graded and Reliable Aerosol Deposition for Electronics (GRADE): Understanding Multi-Material Aerosol Jet Printing with In-Line Mixing.

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Azadeh Sheidaei portrait

Azadeh Sheidaei

Assistant professor
Aerospace engineering


Project:
Cyberinfrastructure for Printable Multifunctional Microstructural Materials.

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