Current study results on Control Engineering have been published. News originating from Ames, Iowa, by VerticalNews correspondents, says the research paper, “presents a methodology, motivated by aerospace applications, to use second-order cone programming to solve nonconvex optimal control problems. The nonconvexity arises from the presence of concave state inequality constraints and nonlinear terminal equality constraints.” The paper concluded, “Applications in …Continue reading “Study results from Iowa State University broaden understanding of Control Engineering”
Written by Carole Gieseke – Chief Communications Officer, Iowa State University Alumni Association Photography by Jim Heemstra It all started with a cruise. Trey (’05 journalism & mass communication) and Becah (’05 chemical engineering) Fliehs discovered that they loved to travel – especially when the travel took them to the Caribbean islands. After they graduated …Continue reading “Visions Across America: Trey and Becah Fliehs”
At Iowa State University, there is a good partnership brewing between the football players and the engineers. In multiple cases, they are one in the same. Three offensive linemen headline a pack of aspiring engineers, who double as Cyclone football players. Daniel Burton (who started 8 games as a freshman) is majoring in mechanical engineering …Continue reading “Several linemen distinguishing themselves in the engineering lab”
Written by Carole Gieseke – Chief Communications Officer, Iowa State University Alumni Association Photography by Jim Heemstra Endless summer. That’s part of the reason Garret Pick moved to Hawaii. That, and the culture, the natural beauty, the diversity, the people, the food, and the music. “I like just about everything” about Hawaii, Garret said. The …Continue reading “Visions Across America: Garret Pick”
Dan Shechtman, an Iowa State University Distinguished Professor in materials science and engineering, is officially on the ballot for the presidential race of Israel. Shechtman won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2011 for his discovery of quasicrystals, which he published in 1984. Shechtman splits his time working in the Ames Laboratory and at Technion — …Continue reading “MSE professor runs in Israel’s presidential race”
The Cyclone Powers Pullers club has given Jason Herbers a lot of experience for his future career in agricultural engineering. Herbers, senior in agricultural engineering, is currently preparing his team and quarter-scale tractor pull prototype for the national competition May 29 in Peoria, Ill. “This is a way to further develop engineering students and give …Continue reading “Students ‘get real engineering experience’ through tractor pull club”
Written by Carole Gieseke – Chief Communications Officer, Iowa State University Alumni Association Photography by Jim Heemstra You walk into a dark room and the lights magically come on. You’re sitting at your desk and the room lights dim as the sun streams through your window. You’re away from your home, but the lights turn …Continue reading “Visions Across America: Ben Hahn”
Hui Hu, professor of aerospace engineering, and his group at Iowa State University studied the effects of the relative rotation directions of two tandem wind turbines on the power production performance, the flow characteristics in the turbine wake flows, and the resultant wind loads acting on the turbines. The experimental study was performed in a …Continue reading “New concept to improve power production of wind turbines”
Written by Carole Gieseke – Chief Communications Officer, Iowa State University Alumni Association Photography by Jim Heemstra When we sent emails to Iowa State alumni in Alaska way back in February, one of the first responses I received was from someone named Grumpy who wrote this: “Would you like a floatplane ride while in the …Continue reading “Visions Across America: Darrell Holmstrom”
Dean Sandall (BS’77 Construction Engineering), Ottumwa, Iowa, began his adventure at Iowa State University running track and cross-country. During his high school years, Sandall was State Indoor Champion in the 440-yard dash in 1972 and the Iowa Federation Indoor 600 yard Champion the same year. He set a school record in the two mile run for …Continue reading “Ottumwa Post – Potter on People: Dean Sandell”
Written by Carole Gieseke – Chief Communications Officer, Iowa State University Alumni Association Photography by Jim Heemstra Sandy Blank Carosella’s description of Lancaster County, Pa., was just too good to pass up. “There is a wonderful mix of the arts scene, agriculture, education, and history here,” she wrote in response to our request for story …Continue reading “Visions Across America: Sandy Blank Carosella”
Recent graduates in electrical engineering Josh Grindeland and John Etherington, and graduates in materials engineering Tommy Geske and Trent Borman proved that it is possible to extract electrical energy from waste heat at the ECpE Senior Design Demonstration on May 30. The team had spent nine months prior designing and developing a device that uses …Continue reading “ECpE, MSE students harness energy from liquid crystals”
