After only a year in existence, the Iowa State University chapter of Engineers Without Borders has been selected by The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society for their first collaborative grant with EWB-USA in Mali, Kati Cerle, Nana Kenieba, Africa. Read the story here.
Iowa State University’s Hans van Leeuwen, who has led research teams awarded back-to-back R&D 100 awards for biofuels developments, has also been named R&D Magazine’s 2009 Innovator of the Year . Lindsay Hock, the magazine’s managing editor, wrote that the magazine’s awards honor “the people behind some of the greatest innovations and discoveries in science.” …Continue reading “Iowa State’s van Leeuwen named R&D Magazine’s 2009 Innovator of the Year”
Brian Hornbuckle, an associate professor in agronomy as well as in electrical and computer engineering (ECpE), heads a research team working on a NASA project to track soil moisture. Hornbuckle’s group is on the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) team consisting of scientists throughout the world who will be gathering data from the European …Continue reading “Engineering researchers have stake in European Space Agency satellite launch”
After successfully competing in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Iowa State University’s student-designed and built solar house has found a permanent home: Honey Creek Resort State Park at Rathbun Lake in southern Iowa. Read The Tribune‘s story and the Iowa State University news release. In a …Continue reading “Honey Creek Resort State Park to be home for Iowa State solar house”
A new, $500,000 instrument recently went about its work emitting and reading high-speed pulses of silent and invisible terahertz rays. As it did, Thomas Chiou explained how the technology would allow Iowa State University researchers to take a close and unique look at materials reliability, biofuels combustion, environmental clean-up, cancer screening, biomass conversion, ionic liquids …Continue reading “Engineering researchers among those studying materials, combustion, cancer with new ‘T-ray’ instrument”
Tim Bigelow, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is on a team of researchers working to make biopsies an unnecessary procedure. A noninvasive ultrasound would take the place of a biopsy to determine whether or not a breast tumor is benign or malignant. An Iowa State Daily article tells the …Continue reading “ECpE professor working to develop ultrasound to locate breast cancer”
R. K. (Richard) Richards, a 1943 electrical engineering graduate, received a PACE (Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering) award Friday in recognition of contributions toward Iowa State being named “The Birthplace of the Digital Computer.” Read more here.
R. K. (Richard) Richards, a 1943 electrical engineering graduate, received a PACE (Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering) award Friday in recognition of contributions toward Iowa State being named “The Birthplace of the Digital Computer.” Read more here.
Gayle Roberts, president of Stanley Consultants, Inc., is among those being honored with a PACE (Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering) award on Friday, October 16. Read her story here.
BodyViz, an Ames virtual reality company developed by Jim Oliver, director of Iowa States Virtual Reality Applications Center and professor of mechanical engineering, and Eliot Winer, associate director of the center and associate professor of mechanical engineering, has taken the top prize of $25,000 in the fourth annual John Pappajohn Iowa Business Plan Competition.
James McCalley, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was part of a three-member Iowa State panel that described progress in the field of sustainable energy last night at the Memorial Union. McCalley’s presentation centered around the nation’s energy infrastructure. Read more here.
Ken Sorensen, an Iowa State graduate in construction engineering, designs much more than stadiums, but one of his latest claims to fame is the new stadium for the Minnesota Twins. Read more here.
The U.S. Department of Energy, sponsors of the 2009 Solar Decathlon taking place this week in Washington, D.C., lists the Interlock House as “designed specifically to appeal to seniors and meets all regulations for accessibility under the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act.”
