Sarah Rajala, dean of the Iowa State University College of Engineering, has been named national engineer of the year by the American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES) – representing 17 multidisciplinary engineering societies from industry, government and academia. Rajala received the award on April 18 at a ceremony in Washington D.C. The AAES national engineer …Continue reading “Dean Rajala receives national engineer of the year award”
The Business Record recently announced its 17th annual list of Forty Under 40 honorees. Josh Braby, partner/project manager at Neumann Bros. Inc., was among those honored for 2016. Braby received his bachelor’s degree in construction engineering from Iowa State in 2006. According to the Business Record, the 40 local business leaders on this year’s list were chosen by …Continue reading “Josh Braby honored as one of Business Record’s Forty Under 40”
In 2009, a five-person team of students from Iowa State’s civil, construction and environmental engineering department decided to participate in the Green Energy Challenge. The competition, which is sponsored by the ELECTRI International Foundation, challenges student chapters across the nation to create a proposal for sustainable updates to a building in their community. The students, …Continue reading “Cyclone Energy comes full circle in Green Energy Challenge”
Iowa State University’s agriculture and biosystems engineering program jumped another spot to No. 2 in U.S. News and World Report’s national graduate school rankings released on March 16, 2016. The College of Engineering tied for 48th overall and tied for 26th among public universities compared to rankings of 43rd and 24th last year. Here are …Continue reading “College of Engineering remains consistent in U.S. News and World Report’s 2017 Best Graduate Schools rankings”
Norio Nakagawa is scientist II for the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation and an adjunct professor of aerospace engineering at Iowa State University. In this post, he talks about the global effort involved in the recent discovery of gravitational waves and shares his experience with a related project. Disclaimer to start with: This ISU researcher did …Continue reading “Contributions to the discovery of gravitational waves come in all sizes”
By Jim Heise, senior lecturer for the Department of Mechanical Engineering Every year, ISU spends a day at our state capitol giving legislators, state employees and visitors the opportunity to see all the great things we do at Iowa State University. I was happy bring along some of my best and most enthusiastic students from the ISU …Continue reading “Reflecting on the ISU Day at the Capitol”
By Jeff Eckhoff, communications manager for the Center for Industrial Research and Service. The future of modern manufacturing is now being built in the basement of ISU’s Sukup Hall – one 40-micron-thick layer at a time. Iowa State University’s Center for Industrial Research and Service (CIRAS) has been up and running for roughly a month now …Continue reading “CIRAS’ metal printer— Pointing the way to new methods for making stuff”
Researchers in the College of Engineering work to create a low-cost, safe and efficient sodium-based battery While lithium-ion batteries have proven their worth in storing energy on a smaller scale, Steve W. Martin says an alternative solution is necessary for storing large amounts of energy, like the gigawatts of wind energy now being harvested from …Continue reading “Iowa State University awarded $3 million from ARPA-E for transformational energy technology”
The Toying With TechnologySM (TWT) Program in the College of Engineering at ISU brings engineering education to future K-12 teachers. Larry Genalo (University Professor, Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education, and associate chair in the MSE Department) shares some history on the program and future plans for TWT. Recently, the State of Iowa …Continue reading “Dean’s Blog guest post: A course in engineering for future educators”
Five with ties to engineering were recognized on October 30 At the 2015 Honors and Awards Ceremony, five engineering alumni were recognized by Iowa State University Alumni Association, the College of Business and the College of Engineering. The event, which celebrated its 84th year, was held at Benton Auditorium in the Scheman Building on Friday, …Continue reading “2015 alumni awards conferred at Homecoming”
Jonathan Claussen applies carbon nanotube technology to a new propulsion system Collaborating with researchers at Brigham Young University and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Jonathan Claussen is taking a well-known propulsion technique to the nanoscale. The team has developed a system that uses hydrogen peroxide decomposition to propel small underwater vehicles. “Hydrogen peroxide propulsion has …Continue reading “Creating a power source for unmanned micro underwater vehicles”
Event offers overview of the challenges, potential of wind energy through presentations and interactive discussions More than 80 Researchers and industry practitioners in wind energy came to Iowa State’s campus ready to make connections during the Wind Energy Industry Symposium. The event, hosted by the College of Engineering’s Wind Energy Initiative on Sept. 29, provided …Continue reading “Wind Energy Industry Symposium brings together experts and ideas for advancing wind energy research”
IMSE assistant professor applies operations research to risk and decision analysis Twelve years ago, Cameron MacKenzie didn’t know much about the industrial engineering field. He was in Washington, D.C., working as a consultant in the areas of defense and homeland security for former Defense Secretary William Cohen. At the time, MacKenzie, who is now an …Continue reading “Cameron MacKenzie: Planning for large-scale disruptions”
Last year, Iowa State’s Virtual Reality Applications Center launched a virtual simulation of the International Space Station (ISS) and its use in testing how humans make decisions in stressful situations. The research team has since developed an exterior ISS simulator used to explore activities done outside a spacecraft, such as spacewalks, and recently released a …Continue reading “Guest post: A voyage to space and beyond”
Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor explores how information security and privacy intersect with data science As emerging systems such as social media and mobile computing continue to improve access to information like a map to your next destination or ways to keep up with your family’s activities, these tools offer a growing range of benefits and …Continue reading “Neil Gong: Securing data in electronic systems”
