Alok Bhandari, an associate professor in agricultural and biosystems engineering, is leading a multiyear project to test how well bioreactors remove nitrates from the water that comes from tile-drained fields. In order to promote a more sustainable agriculture, the goal of this project is to facilitate adoption of nitrogen management practices in Iowa and the Upper …Continue reading “ABE researcher testing nitrate removal from field water”
The College of Engineering at Iowa State is responsible for attracting much of the record funding during fiscal year 2009. Projects range from the NSF Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals to rapid highway renewal, biofuels research, a clean gasification system, energy and transportation infrastructures, and solar energy. Read more .
Tim Lentz, a mechanical engineering graduate student from Dubuque, is the project engineer for Iowa State’s Solar Decathlon Team, which is designing and building an energy-efficient solar-powered house for the U.S. Department of Energy competition this fall in Washington, D.C. Read more.
David White, associate professor in civil, construction, and environmental engineering and director of Iowa State’s Earthworks Engineering Research Center, spoke at an Intelligent Construction for Earthworks conference in April about the advantages of intelligent compaction and the savings to taxpayers. Read more .
Vikram Dalal, ECpE professor and director of the Microelectronics Research Center, has been funded by Micron for several years, and it has paid off with a new kind of silicon technology. Read more.
Vikram Dalal, ECpE professor and director of the Microelectronics Research Center, has been funded by Micron for several years, and it has paid off with a new kind of silicon technology. Read more.
ICIDO will partner with Iowa State’s Virtual Reality Applications Center over the next two years to build research applications based on the company’s visual decision platform. Read more.
Ames, Iowa – Figuring out how to meet the computing challenges of the future is a tough task for engineers, and it requires researching and developing solutions no one has tried before. One Iowa State computer engineer, Associate Professor Chris Chu, is conducting innovative research to improve integrated circuit (IC) designs used in computers and other …Continue reading “Chu wins IBM faculty award”
University Professor Doug Jacobson’s Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment (ISEAGE) lab could receive additional funding as part of a $5.2 million federal aid bill recently passed by the Appropriations Subcommittee. Read the full article here: www.iowapolitics.com/index.iml?Article=162686
Doug Jacobson, University Professor, stages a cyberdefense competition in the Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment, a virtual Internet developed to study and teach computer security. Watch the video from ISU CoE
NASA astronaut and Iowa State University AerE alum Clay Anderson has been named to the crew of the space shuttle Discovery for a mission to the International Space Station early next year. This will be Anderson’s second assignment in space, following a five-month stint onboard the International Space Station in 2007.
There is growing interest in finding renewable products that can be substituted for petrochemicals in a myriad of applications. While biobased plastics are seen as more environmentally preferable, clearly they won’t be used commercially unless it can be determined they are economically viable. Read the full story from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Iowa Public Radio featured two Iowa State University professors on its Talk@12 program on Tuesday, May 19th. Host Greg Shanley talked with Bill Gallus, professor of geological and atmospheric sciences, and Partha Sarkar, professor and director of the Wind Simulation and Testing Laboratory in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, about last year’s Parkersburg, Iowa, tornado. …Continue reading “Partha Sarkar talks about the Wind Simulation and Testing Laboratory”
Forty-six students from around the world and across several disciplines descended upon the Iowa State University campus in June for a two-week Intensive Program in Biorenewables. Participants took part in talks, tours, demonstrations, and tests covering the opportunities and the challenges of developing a bioeconomy. Read the full story from ISU News Service. Watch the video …Continue reading “Iowa State’s Intensive Program in Biorenewables shows students the action”
Members of Team PrISUm were diligently working on their solar car’s battery system when lightning struck nearby. It was the eve of the May 31-June 5 Formula Sun Grand Prix at the Motorsport Ranch in Cresson, Texas. The team had spent two weeks repairing and upgrading the car’s battery pack and brakes. The race’s technical inspections had …Continue reading “Lightning strike slows Iowa State’s solar car team in Texas competition”
