AMES, Iowa – Plants and algae may be a source of green, renewable hydrocarbons that could replace the ancient, finite hydrocarbons in fossil fuels, according to a team of researchers led by Iowa State University’s Jackie Shanks. Shanks, Iowa State’s Manley R. Hoppe Professor of Chemical Engineering, said some plants and algae produce hydrocarbons as …Continue reading “Iowa State researchers looking for catalyst that allows plants to produce hydrocarbons”
When the United States Educational Foundation sponsored an education fair in India, Sameer Mohd got excited about the aerospace engineering program at Iowa State. Now in Ames and among 3,017 other international students here, he’s in his first semester at Iowa State, already meeting with engineering companies, and waiting for the snow to fall. Read …Continue reading “AerE student glad to be included in Iowa State’s record international student enrollment”
Koray Celik, a doctoral student in electrical and computer engineering, has had to depend on his eyes for everything, instead of relying also on the balance organs in his ears. This feeling of vertigo inspired him to develop a small helicopter that navigates its way around a building using only one camera. The Iowa State …Continue reading “ECpE grad student’s research inspired by vertigo”
Zhiqun Lin, an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, leads a team of researchers who have found a “simple and robust method for producing intriguing hierarchically ordered nanomaterials in a precisly controllable manner.” Read the article in Nanowerk here.
Derrick Rollins, assistant dean for diversity in Iowa State’s College of Engineering, coordinates the Leadership through Engineering Academic Diversity Program, which is responsible for recruitment efforts that target schools not typically part of college recruitment programs. Read the story in the Iowa State Daily.
On September 29th, 2009, Iowa Public Radio’s Dean Borg did a story about the Information Assurance Center. He talked with Doug Jacobson, the director of the center, about the preparations students receive in their cyber warfare training. The full feature story is available here. Listen: [audio:https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/files/2009/09/IPR_092909_ISU-Cyber-Warfare.mp3]
AMES, Iowa — In an increasingly high tech society, it is imperative to have individuals highly skilled in information assurance to keep up with the growing number of attacks on computer security. And Iowa State University is helping to train those professionals through the Scholarships for Service (SFS) program from the National Science Foundation (NSF) …Continue reading “Iowa State to train the next set of cyber warriors for the government”
Researchers at Iowa State’s Wind Energy Manufacturing Laboratory in the College of Engineering are working to develop new, low-cost manufacturing systems that could improve the productivity of turbine blade factories by as much as 35 percent. Read more.
AMES, Iowa – It’s the fall career fair season at Iowa State University. The Engineering Career Fair will take place Tuesday, Sept. 22, in Hilton Coliseum and the Scheman Building, with the Business/Liberal Arts and Sciences Career Fair taking place the next day in Hilton. The Ag Career Day is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 13, …Continue reading “Iowa State career fairs continue to flourish in spite of weak economy”
AMES, Iowa – Brent Shanks studies chemical catalysts in Iowa State University’s Sweeney Hall. Just a few buildings to the north, Basil Nikolau studies biological catalysts. Nikolau said the two researchers used to talk twice a year about the science of using different kinds of catalysts to accelerate chemical reactions. But now, thanks to the …Continue reading “Multidisciplinary CBiRC celebrates one-year anniversary”
Laura Christianson, PhD student in sustainable agriculture (Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering), is one of two Iowa State students who have been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Scholarship for 2009-2010. She will conduct research at Massey University in New Zealand for 10 months beginning in January. In her doctoral research that focuses on the …Continue reading “ABE student receives Fulbright Award”
Ames, Iowa — The ECpE department is establishing a new core area of research and graduate study: bioengineering. This is the 10th core area the department offers. “This new core area is expected to broaden the engineering skills of our students, helping them solve biologically relevant problems. The integration of various engineering streams and basic …Continue reading “ECpE establishes new bioengineering research and graduate study area”
AMES, Iowa – It’s not easy to make the machines that convert wind to electricity. Just consider the turbine blades that spin in the wind: a single blade can be 40 to 50 meters long and 10,000 to 15,000 pounds. It has to be built within millimeters of specifications. It has to be built to …Continue reading “Wind Energy Manufacturing Laboratory established with help from Iowa Power Fund”
Read the article from The Tribune about Donathan and Jonathan Morgan coming from Kansas City to the Iowa State College of Engineering on Gates Millennium Scholarships.
An Iowa State robot and Alexander Stoytchev, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, recently met Josh Zepps (left in photo), host of the Science Channels Brink show. Brink visited the Developmental Robotics Lab at Iowa State. See the feature here .
