Each year, Iowa State awards up to $50,000 in funding from the Women’s and Diversity Grants Program to support initiatives that enrich the experiences of women and diverse faculty, staff, and students on campus. Two grant proposals selected this year were prompted and supported by materials science and engineering professor Kristen Constant, along with several …Continue reading “Two Women’s and Diversity Grants influenced by ADVANCE”
After six years of hard work, challenges, and unforeseen time delays, AirISU has finally come to the end of the club’s first building project—a two-passenger, light sport aircraft. The group was established as an Iowa State student organization in 2004 with plans to design and build a plane from scratch. In 2006, the students decided …Continue reading “AirISU completes its first plane, looks ahead to next project”
AMES, Iowa – This year’s ¼-scale tractor looks a lot more like a garden tractor than a hot rod pulling tractor. There’s a nice black hood. LED headlights for the front. And a three-point hitch for the back. It’s all about selling the 31-horsepower tractor as a multi-use vehicle for home, garden or acreage. And …Continue reading “Cyclone Power Pullers say new design, utility and driveline should boost performance”
Three Iowa State students returned from Warsaw, Poland from the World Finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest early this May. Out of 113 teams from all around the world, they placed 95th. The team members: Devon Eilers, junior in management information systems, Bryce Sandlund, senior in computer science and Kerrick Staley, senior in computer …Continue reading “Iowa State Programming Team Returns from Poland World Finals”
The research of Bong Wie, the Vance D. Coffman Chair Professor in Aerospace Engineering and Asteroid Deflection Research Center (ADRC) director, will be featured on a segment of Science Center of Iowa’s Café Scientifique. The program will be first aired on IPTV World on Monday June 11, 2012, at 8 p.m. CST, with several rebroadcast …Continue reading “CoE professor will be featured on IPTV”
This spring, students in a new construction engineering course got to experience what it was like to be part of a multidisciplinary design team. The two students taking Building Energy Modeling (ConE 454X) worked in collaboration with an architecture studio class, serving as engineering consultants for a green and sustainability buildings course. Brad Perkins, senior …Continue reading “Collaboration helps prepare ConE seniors for future”
AMES, IA. — Most people spend their lives within arm’s reach of lead-free solder, a material that has earned Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University more than $47 million in royalties. To understand how the alloy became the highest-grossing patent in ISU history, think about where and how the average American comes into contact with the …Continue reading “Iowa State University-patented solder keeps life rolling, cash flowing”
Increasing demand, new technologies, reduced budgets, and a desire for improved efficiencies led to establishing or strengthening partnerships with colleges. Information Technology Services (ITS) and the colleges of Engineering and Liberal Arts and Sciences established shared goals and outcomes in 2011, and other colleges are currently considering ways to partner with ITS toward meeting their …Continue reading “Forging Campus-wide Partnerships”
Rebecca Cademartiri has always loved science. She was equally enamored with biology, physics, and chemistry until she entered college and had to pick one. Now, as an adjunct professor of chemical and biological engineering (CBE) and materials science and engineering (MSE), the chemist plans to combine all her interests, exploring ways to connect biology and …Continue reading “Chemist turned engineer joins MSE and CBE”
Among the many opportunities that await a new faculty member, Ludovico Cademartiri, associate professor of materials science and engineering (MSE), is looking forward to working in a research area foreign to most materials engineers—studying soil. Cademartiri, a native of Italy, developed his interest in science and engineering at the University of Parma in Italy while …Continue reading “New MSE faculty member pursues unusual research field”
Two Iowa State University College of Engineering (CoE) faculty members have been named 2012 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Fellows, a feat only six others from the CoE have achieved since the organization was founded in 1893. The selection of Larry Genalo, University Professor of materials science and engineering (MSE), and Diane Rover, professor …Continue reading “Two CoE faculty members named ASEE Fellows”
Five Iowa State College of Engineering alumni are joining a prestigious group of past National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recipients. Seth Berbano, BSMatE’11; Elliot Combs, BSChE’11; Chloe Dedic, BSME’12; Connor Schenck, BSCS’11; and Barret Schloerke, BSCpE’10, will join a list that includes Nobel laureate and U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, …Continue reading “NSF GRFP honors five CoE alumni with fellowship”
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, between 2010 and 2020 the auto industry will see an increase in employment for service technicians and mechanics, automotive body and glass repair, and painting and coating workers. With innovations in the automotive technology, the workforce will begin to see a skills gap. To help close that gap …Continue reading “Virtual Reality Goes to School”
Senior mechanical engineering students at Iowa State University found an ideal capstone project by teaming up with Opportunity Village, a private, non-profit, charitable organization dedicated to serving people with intellectual disabilities. Five team members this year designed and built a new stand aid walker, to be used by an individual who receives day services at the …Continue reading “Engineering with a purpose”
Kejin Wang, professor of civil, construction, and environmental engineering, and her two graduate assistants, Gilson Lomboy and Xuhao Wang, recently received $17,400 from Iowa State’s Computation Advisory Committee (CAC) to support the project “Transforming traditional lab instruction to blended instruction through computer-mediated activities.” CAC awards fund programs designed to benefit the general instructional program and …Continue reading “CCEE professor receives CAC funding”
