The ability to lead is a coveted quality, one that is necessary in all aspects of life. Recognizing the value of integrating leadership into education, the College of Engineering has brought on board Clinton Stephens, scholar in-residence for leadership education, who will emphasize these values and skills to engineering students in the classroom. Stephens began …Continue reading “Stephens aims to foster leadership development skills among CoE students”
The Initiative for a Carbon Negative Economy (ICNE) will be on hand to explain its vision at the 2012 International Annual Meetings of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, & Soil Science Society of America. The event takes place in Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 21 to 24, 2012. The Initiative for a Carbon Negative …Continue reading “Carbon Negative Effort on Display at Sustainability Meeting”
Leonard Bond recently became the Interim Director of the Institute for Physical Research and Technology (IPRT), effective October 1. Bond will continue his current position as the Director of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE) and Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. Sharron Quisenberry said Bond’s prior experience at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, …Continue reading “Professor Leonard Bond appointed Interim Director of the Institute for Physical Research and Technology”
If it seems like more and more students have descended upon Ames this fall, it is not an illusion. In fact, enrollment for both the university as well as the College of Engineering have reached new heights. Total university enrollment reached 31,040 students, a new record, while the College of Engineering has accrued 7,508 students, …Continue reading “College of Engineering has most undergraduate students”
Originally from the Midwest, Thomas Ward’s academic pursuits and research interests have taken him from coast to coast. Now settled into his assistant professor position in the aerospace engineering department at Iowa State, he says it feels good to be back in the area of the country he has always considered home. Ward began his …Continue reading “Ward returns to Midwest to join AerE department”
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames Laboratory have discovered the underlying order in metallic glasses, which may hold the key to the ability to create new high-tech alloys with specific properties. Glass materials may have a far less randomly arranged structure than formerly thought. Over the years, the ideas of how metallic …Continue reading “Ames Laboratory finds ordered atoms in glass materials”
The Department of Mechanical Engineering is welcoming a familiar face back to campus. Former student Mark Mba Wright is re-joining the department, but this time as a faculty member. Wright graduated from Iowa State in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering as well as one of the first master’s degrees awarded in biorenewable …Continue reading “Former student returns to Iowa State as a faculty member”
Iowa State University (ISU) is setting up a product-security test and evaluation lab where university students will be assessing network security products’ strengths and weaknesses in a formal program supervised by faculty and a newly named lab director. “We have a large pool of students interested in cybersecurity,” says Dr. Doug Jacobson, director of ISU’s …Continue reading “Students will be doing vulnerability tests on security products at Iowa State University’s new lab”
With research aimed at understanding the interfaces between humans and materials, Cris Schwartz adds a focus on engineering design to the mechanical engineering department. While completing his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering at Iowa State in 1996 and 1998, respectively, Schwartz got his feet wet in tribology, a field that investigates the friction …Continue reading “New ME professor offers wide range of research interests”
Iris Rivero has made her way around North America throughout her education and career. In her latest move, Rivero trekked from Lubbock, Texas, to Ames, where she joined the Iowa State faculty as an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering (IMSE). When Rivero, a native of Puerto Rico, began her …Continue reading “Rivero prepares for collaborative research upon arrival at Iowa State”
AMES, Iowa — Spray paint training and designing next-generation power plants don’t seem, at first glance, to have much to do with one another. But, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory recently partnered with the Iowa Waste Reduction Center at the University of Northern Iowa to improve spray paint training using a virtual engineering …Continue reading “Ames Laboratory, Iowa Waste Reduction Center win award for improving virtual reality spray paint training software”
Jonathan Regele’s time in industry has given him an appreciation for academia along with a good sense of what’s important for students who plan to enter the workforce. And he’s looking forward to bringing that experience to the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State. Regele began his education at the University of California, Irvine, …Continue reading “Regele joins Aerospace faculty”
In order to gain experience beyond the classroom, students headed to Hilton Coliseum and the Scheman Building to meet and mingle with potential employers at the fall Engineering Career Fair. While elbow room and walking space were hard to come by due to the throngs of attendees, excellent professional opportunities were not. With more than …Continue reading “Potential employers, students meet, mingle at Engineering Career Fair”
For Alberto Passalacqua, transitioning from his position as a postdoctoral assistant in the Department of Chemical Engineering to assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering is definitely an adjustment. But he feels his research emphasis in computational fluid dynamics of multiphase flows will help make for a smooth move. Passalacqua began his education in …Continue reading “ChemE post-doctorate takes on ME assistant professor position”
Part of the mission at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, is to ‘pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research.’ That is exactly what two aerospace engineering students from Iowa State had the opportunity to experience this past summer while serving as interns for the agency. For Michaela Antolak …Continue reading “Aerospace engineering students spend summer interning for NASA”