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. Read More

October 16, 2023

Ashley Morton prepares Cyclone Engineering students for the next step at summer orientation

In one-on-one meetings during summer orientation, academic advisor Ashley Morton helps prepare incoming students to become first-year Cyclone Engineers. Read More

June 15, 2023

Sound seeing: Sam Das pairs audio sensing with artificial intelligence to monitor International Space Station 

As an artificial intelligence research leader at Bosch, Samarjit Das (‘10 Ph.D. electrical engineering) has partnered with NASA to develop deep audio analytics technologies that monitor the health of machines in space. And back here on earth, he’s using audio sensing with AI to improve disease diagnosis. Read More

February 6, 2023

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. Read More

October 18, 2022

Lettuce deliver: Nick Herrig engineers tech solutions for fresh greens-to-doorstep startup

Nick Herrig (‘17 indust engr) is the lead software engineer for Clayton Farms, an Ames-based startup that delivers soil-free-grown produce to customers’ homes – the same day it’s harvested.  After graduating and working in process improvement and IT for large companies for a few years, Herrig realized he was still hungry for the fast-paced world of startups. Read More

September 19, 2022

CoMFRE impacting peer-reviewed journals

CoMFRE researchers serve on editorial teams at the top peer-reviewed journals in the field. Read More

February 16, 2022

New leadership positions lead advancement in key undergraduate education outcomes

Cris Schwartz, professor of mechanical engineering and director of ME’s undergraduate education, has been appointed professor in charge of foundational mechanics course experience, and Jennifer Heinen, teaching professor of chemical and biological engineering and CBE’s director of undergraduate education, has been named professor in charge of continuous improvement and accreditation. Read More

January 21, 2022

Make to Innovate: 10 on the 10th anniversary 

Ten things to know about Make to Innovate as celebrates its 10th anniversary Read More

January 21, 2022

Liang Dong named director of Microelectronics Research Center

Liang Dong, Vikram L. Dalal Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named director of the Iowa State University’s Microelectronics Research Center (MRC). Read More

January 7, 2022

CCEE’s Shafei’s paper on top downloaded list in structural engineering

A paper by Behrouz Shafei, associate professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering, co-authored by two of his Ph.D. students, Kofi Oppongand and Dikshant Saini, is among the top downloaded articles published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in structural engineering. “Ultrahigh-performance concrete for improving impact resistance of bridge superstructures to overheight collision,” appeared in the Special Collection of ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering on the application of ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC). Read More

October 7, 2021

New grant led by ABE researcher breaks new ground with perennial cover crops

A diverse team of 18 scientists led by D. Raj Raman, Morrill Professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State, received a five-year, $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to study the potential environmental benefits afforded by perennial grasses, which grow every year without having to be planted or harvested, between rows of cash crops. Read More

October 6, 2021

ASABE features ABE soybean processing research

ASABE features research on improving value in soybean processing by ABE's Bennett Barr, Charles Harburgh and Gretchen Mosher. Read More

October 1, 2021

Powerhouse of the cell, key to new treatments

Cyclone Engineers are developing a comprehensive mitochondrial genetic toolkit. The toolkit will be used to untangle the complex nature of mitochondrial genetics and the impact mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations have on health disorders like type 2 diabetes, cancers and neurological disorders. Read More

September 12, 2021

Poleacovschi writes in The Conversation: For engineers, asking for help at work is influenced by gender

CCEE's Cristina Poleacovschi has found that, for engineers, asking for help is influenced by gender. Women are more likely to feel knowledge is easy to access and are more likely to ask women colleagues questions. Read More

September 9, 2021

AerE’s Stephen Holland Selected Fellow of American Society for Nondestructive Testing  

Stephen Holland, associate professor of aerospace engineering and associate director of Iowa State’s Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, has been named a Fellow of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) class of 2021. Since joining Iowa State in 2006, Holland has made significant contributions to multiple aerospace and NDE research and teaching innovations. Read More

September 9, 2021