The story’s become all too familiar in today’s digital world. A security breach provides a hacker access to a computer system containing the personal information of 80,000 people. This time, the hacker gained entry to personal information through the licensing database of the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission. But it could have been another state’s …Continue reading “New technology won’t prevent information security breaches, say Iowa State experts”
Alexander Stoytchev, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and his research group are teaching a robot to learn in the same way a two-year-old does. Read the story from the Robotics Technology Center here—and be sure to watch the video when Josh Zepps and Brink came to visit the Developmental …Continue reading “ECpE robot is learning to learn”
Pork Magazine carried a story on February 1 quoting Robert Burns, an agricultural and biosystems engineering professor, and his research on the dangers of methane production in deep manure pits. Read the full story here.
Using an Xbox 360 game controller to travel through a patient’s body in order to plan for surgery may sound like pure science fiction, but it’s now a reality through technology created by an Ames startup company, BodyViz.com . And the co-founder of that company, Eliot Winer — an Iowa State University associate professor of mechanical …Continue reading “BodyViz cofounder to speak at ISU Pappajohn Center Entrepreneur Forum on February 12”
Carolyn Heising, a professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering , wrote a guest column for The Des Moines Register about the power of nuclear plants and clean energy. The column was originally printed on February 4, 2010. What the administration does about loan guarantees for building new nuclear power plants in the …Continue reading “Guest column: New nuclear plants power economy, too”
SynGest Inc. has announced that Dr. Robert C. 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 will serve …Continue reading “Brown to serve on SynGest’s Technical Advisory Committee”
Jerry Stevens, a 1974 civil engineering graduate from Iowa State, has been named head of the American Water Works Association. He is currently the general manager of the West Des Moines Water Works. His appointment to the AWWA begins in June as president elect for a year, then a year as president, and then past …Continue reading “CE alum leads American Water Works Association”
Harry Weiss, Iowa State professor emeritus in aerospace engineering, has been selected to receive the Evan Ferguson Award for service by Sigma Xi. With nearly 60,000 members in more than 100 countries, Sigma Xi is an international research society that works to promote the health of the scientific enterprise and honor scientific achievement. “Most scientific …Continue reading “AerE professor Harry Weiss to receive Evan Ferguson Award from Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society”
Students in the College of Engineering are preparing for two spring competitions—the regional Chem-E-Car competition and the University Mars Rover Challenge. The Iowa State Daily carried a story about the preparations.
For years, people have marveled at the technology and intelligence it takes to build a car. But for the ISU Mini Baja Team, building a car is a yearly task, and the April deadline to have the car finished is coming quickly. The Baja Team is a completely student-run team part of an organization called …Continue reading “Mini Baja Team building racing vehicle from the ground up”
Get Steve Martin going on the science and technology of batteries and he’ll reach for a sheet of graph paper. Martin, an Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering in Iowa State University’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, will fill that sheet with the …Continue reading “Iowa State, Ames Lab engineer works to develop better batteries for energy alternatives”
Greg McGrath, a 25-year-old Iowa State graduate in mechanical engineering, and three fellow Iowa State grads (Chris Deal and Wes Meier, ME; and Lee Beck, horticulture, food science, and Spanish) started a nonprofit organization to aid poverty-stricken countries worldwide. Their group, called Emerging Opportunities for Sustainability (EOS International), imlements technologies, educates the public, and serves …Continue reading “Engineering alums help third-world countries through nonprofit”
Two teams of Iowa State University researchers will receive a total of $8 million over three years from a $78 million U.S. Department of Energy program to research and develop advanced biofuels. Victor Lin – professor of chemistry, director of the Institute for Physical Research and Technology’s Center for Catalysis at Iowa State and chief …Continue reading “Iowa State researchers part of $78 million national effort to develop advanced biofuels”
The popular History Channel program Modern Marvels is exploring the topic of eggs and will feature several Iowa State University experts on the show schedule to air 7 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 21. The show airs on cable channel 45 on Mediacom in Ames and Des Moines. It will also air on channel 269 for DirecTV …Continue reading “ABE prof possible guest on History Channel”
Iowa State students and volunteers will spend 15 hours dancing to raise funds for the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital during the 13th annual Iowa State University Dance Marathon on Saturday, Jan. 23. Dance Marathon — Iowa State’s largest student-run philanthropic event, raising $1.3 million since it started in 1998 — will begin at 9 …Continue reading “MSE student co-director of Iowa State Dance Marathon”
