On Saturday, January 16, 72 teams of 9- to 14-year-olds from all over Iowa competed in the FIRST LEGO League Championship in Howe Hall on the Iowa State campus. This year’s theme was “Smart Move” and involved two equally weighted components—a robot that maneuvered a course as well as a research project presented to a …Continue reading “Students rock Howe Hall at Iowa FIRST LEGO League Championship”
Software technology developed by Iowa State University engineers will give contestants of NBC’s The Biggest Loser Couples a close look inside their bodies. The episode airs at 7 p.m. (Central) on Tuesday, Jan. 12. A doctor will use the BodyViz technology to show contestants their MRI scans in 3-D. James Oliver, an Iowa State professor of …Continue reading “Iowa State engineering technology to appear on ‘The Biggest Loser Couples’”
Interlock House, the Iowa State entry into the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon, made quite a name for itself while on display in Washington, D. C. this past year. Chosen as one of only twenty entries worldwide, Interlock House ended the competition with a twelfth-place finish, one the Iowa State team is very proud of, especially …Continue reading “Iowa State’s Solar Decathlon House—The Year in Review”
Researchers in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering are studying the aqueous extraction processing of soy as a “promising green alternative to hexane extraction processing.” K. A. Campbell, a graduate student in the department, and Professor Chuck Glatz have recently published their findings in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Read more here.
Four Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory researchers have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). They are Mufit Akinc, a professor of materials science and engineering and associate scientist for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory; Mark Gordon, Distinguished Professor and Frances M. Craig Chair in chemistry, …Continue reading “Mufit Akinc, MSE professor, among those named AAAS fellows”
Two physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have been named Fellows of the American Physical Society. Physicist Rana Biswas was named an APS Fellow for his “theoretical contributions to the dynamics of semiconductors, solar materials and photonic crystals.” Biswas, who is also an Iowa State University adjunct associate professor of physics and …Continue reading “ECpE researcher named fellow of the American Physical Society”
Ag Leader Technology and AutoFarm joined forces Monday, December 7, in Ames, Iowa, at the official opening of the new Ag Leader Academy to talk about their combined tools of precision agriculture with the media. Amidst the talks by management, touting the excitement of this alliance and their complete precision farming product offering, was a …Continue reading “ABE professor gives presentation on precision farming at Ag Leader Academy”
Iowa State University has been awarded a grant toward the purchase of a high-resolution, field-emission microscope from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, based in Muscatine, Iowa. The Carver Trust will provide Iowa State with an $180,000 grant for the $305,000 microscope (FEG-SEM), which will be used by campus researchers in the life sciences, physical …Continue reading “MSE chair receives Carver Trust grant”
Iowa State’s Engineering Policy and Leadership Institute hosted a symposium titled “National Energy and Transportation: Investment Strategies through 2050” on Monday, November 30. Professor Jim McCalley of electrical and computer engineering said its goal was to help guide public discourse and policymaking in causing energy and transportation to become more efficient and sustainable. Read The …Continue reading “Engineering symposium addresses energy policies”
In a ceremony presented by the Engineering Student Council, twenty-one graduating engineering students took an oath and joined Order of the Engineer on Tuesday, December 1. Read the Iowa State Daily story here.
Environmental Technologies, or EnTech, was created by students in Iowa State’s College of Engineering in hopes of furthering “interest and education in environmental technologies,” according to their mission statement. The dream is to build an electric car, but the immediate project is building an electric motorcycle charged by natural means–hopefully by Veishea 2010. Read the Iowa State …Continue reading “Engineering students form club to lower nation’s carbon footprint, electrically”
Environmental Technologies, or EnTech, was created by students in Iowa State’s College of Engineering in hopes of furthering “interest and education in environmental technologies,” according to their mission statement. The dream is to build an electric car, but the immediate project is building an electric motorcycle charged by natural means–hopefully by Veishea 2010. Read the Iowa State …Continue reading “Engineering students form club to lower nation's carbon footprint, electrically”
Srinivas Aluru, Ross Martin Mehl and Marylyne Munas Mehl Professor of Computer Engineering, is on the team of researchers who have developed methods for the assembly of sequence data and conducted much of the ongoing functional analysis work on the completion of the maize genome sequence as part of a multi-institutional effort led by the …Continue reading “ECpE researcher part of team providing technical expertise and some biological overlay to maize genome sequence”
Three College of Engineering professors discuss the decline of fossil fuel use and its likely replacements: Alan Russell, Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Vikram Dalal, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; and Carolyn Heising, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering. Read the Iowa State Daily‘s story here.
James Oliver picked up an Xbox game controller, looked up to a video screen and used the device’s buttons and joystick to fly through a patient’s chest cavity for an up-close look at the bottom of the heart. And there was a sight doctors had never seen before: an accurate, 3-D view inside a patient’s …Continue reading “Iowa State engineers develop 3-D software to give doctors, students a view inside the body”
