Machinery to clean and collect corn cobs for cellulosic ethanol production and other uses based on initial research by Iowa State University engineer Stuart Birrell is being highlighted at the John Deere exhibit at this year’s Farm Progress Show, Aug. 31 to Sept. 1 in Boone. Read the full story here.
Iowa State University’s College of Engineering has received a gift commitment of $700,000 from Mike and Jean Steffenson of Davenport, Iowa. The Iowa State graduates have established funds for a variety of uses within the College of Engineering including the Steffenson Professorship in Chemical Engineering. The couple will provide $125,000 over the next five years …Continue reading “Gift creates Steffenson Professorship, engineering scholarships”
An important change in the differential tuition policy is making financial planning simpler for all engineering students at Iowa State University and even resulting in a one-time scholarship for some of them. Beginning in the fall 2010 semester, engineering students entering the university directly from high school will receive a four-semester exemption from differential tuition; …Continue reading “College simplifies differential tuition policy, offers scholarships”
Winslow Sargeant, who earned his MS in electrical engineering from Iowa State in 1988, has been named as a recess appointee to the post of Chief Counsel of Advocacy, National Business Administration. Read the full story here.
While official enrollment numbers for the fall semester won’t be in until after Labor Day, the numbers from summer orientation point to yet another year of growth in the College of Engineering. Attendance at orientation in June was up 6 percent from the previous year. A total of 1,269 students attended, which exceeded the numbers …Continue reading “College welcomes students to campus as enrollment trends upward”
College of Engineering researchers Ayman Fayed, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering; Sri Sritharan, Wilson Engineering Professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering; Hui Hu, associate professor of aerospace engineering; and Suraj Kothari, professor of electrical and computer engineering, were among those awarded 10 competitive grants totaling $942,389 from Iowa State University’s $1.459 million …Continue reading “Four engineering researchers among those awarded state-funded grants”
Iowa State University is again among the top one-fourth of all public national universities in U.S. News & World Report’s 2011 “America’s Best Colleges” annual rankings released today. Iowa State is tied for 41st among 164 best national public universities and 94th in the “Best National University” category. Among public universities’ engineering schools whose highest …Continue reading “U.S. News rankings: Iowa State continues among top 25 percent of public national universities”
For the latest advisories from the university, please check the university home page. For additional information and maps about street closures, please see this link on the City of Ames website. Watch this video of Wednesday’s flooding.
Mufit Akinc, professor of materials science and engineering, has been named as the College of Engineering’s professor-in-charge of international engagement. “Professor Akinc’s leadership role will be directed at educating students about the global nature of the engineering business enterprise,” said Jonathan Wickert, dean of the college. “The college will benefit greatly from his extensive experience …Continue reading “College appoints Akinc to leadership role for international programs”
Engineering researcher Robert Brown has learned firsthand about the promise of biochar as a way to improve soil. Read the full story. Find out more about biochar technology and what researchers are saying about it. Check out details of the biochar conference that took place at Iowa State on June 27-30.
Three Iowa State University engineers—one drawing on hands-on experience and the others applying theory, mathematics, and computational modeling—offer a detailed look into how the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico may have begun, and how planners can prepare to minimize the effects of any future spills. Watch the video. Cement expert questions judgment, …Continue reading “From cement to ocean current modeling, Iowa State engineers offer oil spill insights”
Richard Wlezien has been named the Vance and Arlene Coffman Endowed Department Chair in Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University. Currently professor and chair of mechanical engineering at Tufts University, Wlezien will begin at Iowa State’s College of Engineering on August 16. Wlezien’s career includes extensive experience in industry, academia, and the federal government. He …Continue reading “Wlezien to chair aerospace engineering at Iowa State”
High-achieving student Alma Marquez, a scholarship winner on her way to study chemical engineering at Iowa State University, symbolizes the potential that can be found at East High in Des Moines. Read the full Des Moines Register editorial.
The College of Engineering at Iowa State University has announced that David Jiles will serve as the Palmer Department Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECpE). Jiles, director of the Wolfson Centre for Magnetics and professor of magnetics at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom, is making his return to Iowa State. He was named …Continue reading “Jiles returns to Iowa State to lead electrical and computer engineering”
The successful pursuit of polymer research along two separate lines brought Associate Professor Michael Kessler to a simple yet unexpected confluence of ideas that raised a straightforward question: Why not combine them? His proposal to do so has earned the materials science and engineering researcher a $400,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award for a …Continue reading “Kessler’s CAREER award combines quests for self-healing, biorenewable polymers”
