Engineers bring a critical perspective to the economic models and mathematical predictions that are used to influence public policy, says Iowa State mechanical engineer W. Ross Morrow. Read the full story.
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Iowa State Mini Baja Team hopes for better luck, better performance this year (updated 5/24)
Iowa State’s Mini Baja Team was ninth heading into the last – and biggest – event of the SAE Baja 2010 competition in Bellingham, Wash., sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers. And the off-road racer the students had designed and built was running like they thought it would. But there were some problems during …Continue reading “Iowa State Mini Baja Team hopes for better luck, better performance this year (updated 5/24)”
Iowa State engineers design power structures that help keep the lights on (updated 5/26)
The metal poles that carry power lines across the country are built to take whatever blows at them. So they’re big and round and sturdy – as much as 12 feet in diameter and 100 feet high. But transmission poles can still fail under the stress of extreme ice and wind. They could also be …Continue reading “Iowa State engineers design power structures that help keep the lights on (updated 5/26)”
Wanted for Ignite Ames: Computer pros, entrepreneurs or ‘just big geeks (like us)’
The global Ignite movement does all it can to live up to its motto: “Enlighten us, but make it quick.” And so speakers at Ignite networking events around the world have to work with 20 PowerPoint slides that automatically advance every 15 seconds. That means speakers have exactly five minutes to share an idea, a …Continue reading “Wanted for Ignite Ames: Computer pros, entrepreneurs or ‘just big geeks (like us)’”
ECpE researcher uses Wii Remotes™ to teach engineering
Tom Daniels, after taking a shift pedaling an old bike propped up in the corner of an Iowa State University computer lab, joined a few of his freshmen students back at a computer. The aspiring computer engineers were huddled over the monitor, tapping away at the keyboard, trying to use a Wii Remote™ to collect …Continue reading “ECpE researcher uses Wii Remotes™ to teach engineering”
Iowa State, Ames Lab researchers preparing for Blue Waters supercomputer
Monica Lamm, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering and associate scientist at Ames Laboratory, is part of a team at Iowa State University that is developing computational chemistry at the petascale. The team is preparing for the most powerful supercomputer in the world, Blue Waters, which is expected to come online in 2011. Iowa …Continue reading “Iowa State, Ames Lab researchers preparing for Blue Waters supercomputer”
Iowa State R&D 100 Awards
Engineers Hans van Leeuwen and Mark Bryden are among researchers at Iowa State University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory who have won two 2009 R&D 100 Awards