AMES, Iowa — A new faculty member in Iowa State University’s Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering is researching and working with livestock producers on manure management and water quality matters. Daniel Andersen started in August as an assistant professor after working at Iowa State as a graduate research assistant while a graduate student. He …Continue reading “New Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Faculty Member to Work with Livestock Producers”
Roger Less, Iowa State Engineering Alum, is in charge of the Army Corps of Engineers’ unwatering of New York City and the subway system. Video from the Today Show.
Pratt & Whitney has established a strategic research partnership with Iowa State University to improve gas turbine engine technology for aerospace applications (news release). The five-year initiative establishes a Pratt & Whitney Center of Excellence at Iowa State, with research projects focused on: Non-destructive evaluation of engine components Materials design and testing, in collaboration with …Continue reading “Pratt & Whitney establishes engineering center of excellence at Iowa State”
Link to the Computational Fluid Dynamics Center website
With an increasing awareness of Iowa’s need for skilled workers and more math- and science-savvy citizens, 33 middle and high school math and science teachers are accepting that challenge by gaining real-world experience in the business community this summer as part of the Iowa Mathematics and Science Education Partnership’s (IMSEP) Real World Externships for Teachers …Continue reading “IMSEP’s Real World Externships bridge workplace and schools”
Robert Brown, Anson Marston Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Gary and Donna Hoover Chair in Mechanical Engineering, Iowa Farm Bureau director of the Bioeconomy Institute, director of the Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies, and professor of mechanical engineering, chemical and biological engineering, and agricultural and biosystems engineering, is spending his summer revising an NSF proposal in …Continue reading “$20 million at stake in ISU research grant proposal”
Iowa State University’s Robert C. Brown pulled a few of his graduate students aside a couple years back and offered up an extracurricular challenge. “You are all experts on pyrolysis,” he remembers telling them. “Why don’t you start a company specifically to commercialize bio-oil recovery?” The result is Avello Bioenergy Inc. based at Iowa State University’s BioCentury …Continue reading “ME students take their professor’s advice and start an Ames bioenergy company”
Iowa State University alumnus Howard Otto Lorenzen, known as the “Father of Electronic Warfare” for his breakthrough work at the Naval Research Laboratory, has been memorialized with the launch of a new U.S. Navy ship. Christened June 26 in Pascagoula, Miss., the USNS Howard O. Lorenzen is the second ship in U.S. Navy history to …Continue reading “EE alum honored with namesake U.S. Navy ship”
The students of Team PrISUm kept their solar-powered car at the speed limit for most of the final 110 miles of the American Solar Challenge on Saturday. Read the entire news release. Follow updates on the Iowa State solar car on Team PrISUm’s 2010 American Solar Challenge Blog.
Eighteen Iowa State and University of Kentucky students recently returned from two weeks in Brazil, where they got a firsthand look at coffee farms and sugarcane production. Brian Steward, Iowa State associate professor in agricultural and biosystems engineering, and Scott Shearer, chair of biological and agricultural engineering at the University of Kentucky, led the tour. …Continue reading “Engineering technology is focus of study tour to Brazil”
It’s still parts and pieces spread across a campus garage, but the tenth sun-powered race car designed and built by Iowa State University students is already looking super efficient. Just look at this, said Trevor Dobbs, a junior from Woodbury, Minn., as he picked up a shiny silver piece of the car’s suspension. That suspension …Continue reading “Solar car team prepares for race from Tulsa to Chicago”
(Read the Iowa State Daily article about the team’s results.) Coming off last year’s fourth place finish in an annual, international ¼ scale tractor pull competition, Iowa State University’s team could have been justified in making a few small adjustments to their design and hoping to improve their ranking this year. Instead, the team decided …Continue reading “Tractor pull team hopes new design will overpower field in international competition (updated 6/10)”
(Update: Watch video of the competition.) It doesn’t stack cubes of trash or watch old movie musicals. And it’s never going to develop a crush on some sleek and sexy EVE. But WALL-E’s real-world cousin may one day mine minerals on the moon’s surface—a critical function in establishing the first permanent lunar colonies. Meet the Astro Robotic …Continue reading “Moon Shot: Student Team Takes Robot to NASA Lunar Mining Competition”
The Biorenewables Research Laboratory officially opened earlier this month on the west side of campus amid the other engineering buildings. Read the Des Moines Business Record story about the lab.
The College of Engineering at Iowa State University has appointed Raj Aggarwal, a former Rockwell Collins executive, as adjunct professor in the college’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECpE) and managing director of advanced research and technology. Aggarwal’s work as adjunct professor will consist primarily of departmental and college service, including his continued assistance …Continue reading “College appoints Aggarwal to adjunct position, research directorship”
