Michelle Soupir, assistant professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering, is currently working on two research projects dealing with the fate and transport of bacteria from livestock systems. Her first project, funded by the National Pork Board and the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, looks at understanding the occurrence and movement of antibiotics, antibiotic-resistant bacteria and …Continue reading “Research looks to prevent human exposure to water-borne pathogens”
Three students affiliated with BEI’s Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies (CSET) built two pyrolyzers in Nicaragua this summer to introduce farmers to the benefits of biochar. Bernardo Del Campo, Juan Proano Aviles, and Matt Kieffer, all graduate students in mechanical engineering at Iowa State University, spent two to three weeks near Matagalpa, Nicaragua, in June 2013. …Continue reading “BEI students introduce biochar to Nicaraguan farmers”
Ming-Chen Hsu joined the mechanical engineering department in August as an assistant professor and is already looking ahead to the future possibilities offered by his position. Hsu holds his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from National Taiwan University, a master’s from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San …Continue reading “New assistant professor Ming-Chen Hsu sees opportunities in ME department”
Six students from the College of Engineering were awarded NASA scholarships for the fall 2013 and spring 2014 semesters. The funding comes through the Iowa Space Grant Consortium program. Recipients are Dalton Groath, sophomore in aerospace engineering; Jacob Harry, senior in aerospace engineering; Christian Setzer, senior in aerospace engineering and physics; Elmer Tse, junior in …Continue reading “Six NASA scholarships awarded to undergraduate students”
Xianglan Bai just started her first year as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, but it’s not her first position with Iowa State. Since 2011, she worked as an adjunct assistant professor at the Center for Sustainable Environmental Technology, collaborating on research with other faculty members. Bai received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in aerospace …Continue reading “New faculty member Xianglan Bai seeks collaboration for research”
Instead of walking across campus to attend class in a lecture hall this fall, a growing number of Iowa State University students will log on from home, the library or even a coffee shop. The university continues to offer more online undergraduate and graduate courses to meet the demands of record enrollment and student preferences. …Continue reading “Enrollment, student demand fuels growth for online courses at ISU”
As Travis Sippel settles in at the College of Engineering, he’s bringing his work with energetic materials—a line of research he believes will complement the work already being done in the mechanical and aerospace engineering departments—along with him. “Something that really excited me about Iowa State is the potential for collaboration,” says Sippel, who was …Continue reading “Travis Sippel brings rocket propellant research to ME department”
Traveling, fishing and duplicate bridge are all hobbies Jim Daughton has taken up since retiring in 2006, but his writing became more than a hobby. After self-publishing two books with more on the way, he says it’s become his new job. Daughton, born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees in …Continue reading “Retired electrical engineer Jim Daughton becomes self-publishing author”
Maize is a chief source of nutrition for about 900 million of the world’s poorest consumers and about one-third of all malnourished children, but poor grain storage can cut the amount of available maize in half. That’s why Denis Bbosa is at Iowa State studying new methods of safely storing grains. Bbosa, a graduate assistant …Continue reading “Grad student works to revolutionize grain storage, eliminate insecticides”
AMES, Iowa – The most powerful computer ever on the Iowa State University campus – a machine dubbed “Cyence” that’s capable of 183.043 trillion calculations per second with total memory of 38.4 trillion bytes – is just beginning to produce data for 17 research projects. The thinking and infrastructure behind the new machine will have …Continue reading “Iowa State turns on ‘Cyence,’ the most powerful computer ever on campus”
Brandon Williams has three degrees in aerospace engineering (BSAerE’04, MSAerE’06, PhDAerE’09) and his wife Kelly Tanghe Williams has a bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. in food science and human nutrition. The couple, originally from Maple Grove, Minnesota, came to Iowa State in 2000. Both were involved in the Greek community, graduate research and were leaders of …Continue reading “Catching up: Two young alumni have 5 ISU degrees between them”
The laboratories and centers within the College of Engineering bring together forward-thinking minds and great entrepreneurial spirits. Dreams of startup companies and innovative technologies are often born in these collaborative spaces, and sometimes they even become reality. Although they serve very different purposes, WebFilings and Mechdyne, two Iowa companies, share many commonalities in their histories—starting …Continue reading “Merging engineering and business: Companies start and thrive with Iowa State alumni leading the way”
Graduates of the College of Engineering find careers in many parts of the world, but it’s not often three from one class take jobs with the same company, start at different locations and travel around the country before settling down in the same human resources department. That’s the story of Jim McWhirter, Steve Bean and …Continue reading “Three industrial engineering alumni take separate paths, find themselves together in human resources”
Dan Niebuhr, an agricultural engineering alumnus, developed an interest in golf at age 12, but his home in Fairbank, Iowa, didn’t have a course. When he joined his high school golf team, he dreamed of designing a course himself and began sketching. Niebuhr spent most of 1991 and 1992 planning and designing the course and, …Continue reading “Alumnus works to keep Fairbank golf course going strong”
Greg Luecke, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and four of his graduate students will spend the next week and a half at the Iowa State Fair as their research project with John Deere is featured in the Agriculture Building. A harvesting combine simulator with virtual reality interface is currently in the human testing stage to …Continue reading “Greg Luecke showcases combine simulator at Iowa State Fair”
