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Hong (Michael) Yang-received a Teaching Excellence Award for Spring, 2009.  His major professor is Dr. Z.J. Wang and he was nominated for this excellence award by Dr. Joe Schaefer, his supervising instructor. The purpose of a Teaching Excellence Awards “is to recognize and encourage outstanding achievement by graduate students in teaching.”

Dr. Hui Hu has received 2009 AIAA Best Paper Award presented by AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Technical Committee. Hu, an assistant professor in aerospace engineering at Iowa State University, wrote the article with his former graduate student, Jeffrey Murphy, (M.S., summer 2008), who is now working as an aerospace engineer at Boeing, St. Louis. The article, …Continue reading “Dr. Hui Hu and Jeff Murphy awarded 2009 AIAA Best Paper Award”

Kevin Petersen, who was inducted into the Department of Aerospace Engineering’s Hall of Distinguished Alumni in 2004, retired as director of NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, on April 3. Petersen earned his BS in aerospace engineering in 1974. He served as the center’s director for more than 10 years. (News release)

Molly was nominated for the prestigious award by aerospace engineering Professor Dale Chimenti and Department Chair Tom Shih.  The competition extends over the entire university, and Molly was chosen the winner over 24 other highly qualified candidates.  She will receive her award at a ceremony on April 27 in the ISU Memorial Union.  As the …Continue reading “Ms. Molly White, Aerospace Engineering senior, to receive 2009 Student Employee of the Year Award”

NASA has selected an Iowa State University student team to participate in the 2008–2009 University Student Launch Initiative (USLI) in April. (NASA news release) Twenty college and university teams from across the country are designing and building rockets for the annual rocketry challenge to be held April 18 at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in …Continue reading “Student team to compete in NASA rocket challenge”

Atul Kelkar, ME,  and Jerald Vogel, AerE, who are co-founders of Innovation Vibration Solutions (IVS), received the third-place prize of $10,000 in the third annual statewide John Pappajohn Business Plan Competition. IVS has developed an innovative vibration isolation technology that provides for superior suspension solutions for various applications, such as reducing the road impact felt …Continue reading “Engineering Professors Awarded Third Place In Pappajohn Contest”

Brian Kaplinger, senior in Aerospace Engineering, has received the 2008 James Willett Educational Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship is a highly competitive one-time award of $1,000 that is given to the student who best represents the goals and mission of USRA and its scholarship donors. The USRA Scholarship Program provides college scholarships to students who have …Continue reading “Brian Kaplinger receives 2008 James Willett Educational Memorial Scholarship”

Two of ISU’s professors (Dr. Atul Kelkar, Mechanical Engineering, and Dr. Jerry Vogel, Aerospace Engineering) are finalists for the Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Centers’ Contest to make things smooth, safe, and fast. Link to COE article about the Pappajohn Contest Finalists

MAVERIC, a mars analog rover designed and built by students at the Space systems and Controls Lab (SSCL) and the new Aerospace Robotics Lab (ARL) won 4th place at the 2008 University Rover Challenge, which took place June 5-7, 2008 at the Mars Desert Research Station near Handsville, Utah. “MAVERIC” is an acronym for Mars …Continue reading “ISU Students take 4th place at 2008 University Rover Challenge Competition”