Leonard Bond will become the new Director of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE) and a Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University, effective July 1. Bond comes to Iowa State from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory where he served as a Laboratory Fellow since 2000. Bond has focused his career …Continue reading “Leonard Bond appointed Director of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation”
GILBERT — Will Greeder wasn’t so excited about going to summer school. The seventh-grader-to-be at Gilbert Middle School began attending this week’s math camp for obligatory reasons. “My mom signed me up,” Greeder said. But he kept coming back because this wasn’t an ordinary class. Taught by Ambar Mitra, an aerospace engineering professor at Iowa …Continue reading “A week of math in the summer isn’t a bummer”
Valery Levitas, Schafer 2050 Challenge Professor and faculty member in both aerospace and mechanical engineering, has received an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship for alumni in recognition of his research the field of mechanics of materials. Levitas received a Humbodlt-Research Fellowship in 1993 that allowed him to conduct research for two years in Germany. After …Continue reading “Levitas receives second Humboldt Fellowship”
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University engineers, researchers and educators want to be part of America’s wind energy solution. And so they’re building programs and partnerships to boost the university’s expertise in just about every aspect of the wind energy industry: aerodynamics, grid integration, manufacturing, meteorology, nacelles and blades, policy, reliability and towers. So far, …Continue reading “Wind Energy Initiative builds research, education programs”
Robert Brown, director of Iowa State University’s Bioeconomy Institute, is asked frequently these days when the next generation of biofuels will flow through gas pumps and into automobile tanks. His reply: “You tell me the price of oil.” Brown’s reply seems like a wiseacre comeback, but it reflects the pressure commodity markets and politics exert …Continue reading “Bioeconomy Institute director says creating new products ‘never is quick’”
Engineering professors at Iowa State University are part of an international, collaborative research team recently awarded $4.1 million from the Department of Energy (DOE). The team, led by Sandia National Laboratories, also includes researchers from the University of Maine (UMaine), TPI Composites, and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). Iowa State’s researchers, who will receive …Continue reading “Wind Energy Manufacturing Laboratory heads out to sea”
To Iowa State alumnus Mamoun Dawlebeit (MSAgE’80; PhDAgE’83), agricultural engineering is more than a career—it’s a way to improve the livelihood of his people. Native to Sudan, he is well aware of the challenges his country will face, like competition over land use, deforestation, and other impacts of climate change that will affect the economy. …Continue reading “For love of a country”
AMES, Iowa — Seven Iowa State University students played essential roles in the creation of Iowa State’s exhibit for the 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, June 27-July 1 and July 4-8, in Washington, D.C. The students helped refine the exhibit concept, build the model, research the hardware, program the games, design the custom control system, write the …Continue reading “Students key to Iowa State University’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival exhibit”
Lights flickered and returned to normal. But a few moments later — total darkness. This was a common scenario for people all over Ames due to the citywide power outage Tuesday, June 19. For those involved in new student orientation, the temporary blackout posed some challenges. Incoming student Nicole Baker said she was on the …Continue reading “Power outage: Making light of an inconvenient situation”
AMES, Iowa – The stress level is finally dropping in the Cyclone Racing shop on the Iowa State University campus. Formula SAE’s June 20-23 competition in Lincoln, Neb., is just days away. And the Yamaha YFZ450 engine in the back of the student-designed and student-built mini open-wheel racer is finally close to powering some last-minute tests. Derek Roberg, …Continue reading “Iowa State’s Formula SAE team looks for engine answers as it prepares to race”
Berlin native Derek Roncaioli’s senior design project for mechanical engineering at Iowa State was to find a way for a gentleman named Bud, who is blind and has severe muscle control problems to ride in RAGBRAI. He had a stroke when he was 16 years old which impaired him and since then he has wanted …Continue reading “Senior design project allows disabled local to ride RAGBRAI”
With an interest in the structural aspects of engineering design, 1963 civil engineering alumnus Jack McGuire never anticipated he would have a life-long career in aerospace engineering. But after 43 years at the Boeing Company, he can safely say the field has proved to be the place for him. His professional accomplishments and commitment to …Continue reading “‘Eminent Engineer’ gives back to the profession”
DES MOINES, Iowa – Engineering used to be a career field that appealed mostly to boys – but that’s changing. Des Moines Area Community College, Iowa State University and Dowling Catholic High School are co-sponsoring a three-day engineering camp – for girls only. Camp coordinator Dan Malloy says girls will get hands-on experience with projects …Continue reading “Engineering: It isn’t ‘just for boys’ anymore”
Interdisciplinary teams working on the Dean’s Research Initiatives (DRIs) presented their progress to date in an open forum held May 15. The DRIs, established by the College of Engineering in 2011, awarded $500,000 to three teams to help them pursue larger funding opportunities. Creating a carbon-negative economy The Initiative for a Carbon Negative Economy …Continue reading “Open forum highlights progress on Dean’s Research Initiatives”
Iowa State University will be participating in this year’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D. C., during the last week of June and the first week of July. One festival theme this year is “Campus and Community: Public and Land-grant Universities and the USDA”. One of the university’s two proposals for …Continue reading “ITS helps bring Smithsonian Folklife Festival exhibit to life”
