Contributing to civil engineering education one scholarship at a time

Iowa State University alum Richard Gumtau had a more than five-decade career as a highway engineer which took him all over the country and even other parts of the world. Gumtau’s journey is an aspiring one though it almost ended before it even started because of the academic and financial hurdles he faced his freshman year of college. This would eventually inspire him to support students so they would not need to encounter the hardship he endured. Read More

November 15, 2021

IE friends will go on to work for competing companies

A pair of industrial engineering students who befriended each other at Iowa State University will now go their separate ways as they go to work for competing window manufacturers after graduation. Read More

November 10, 2021

Using video game-based tools to teach STEM

A mechanical engineering (ME) alum hopes to engage the next generation of scientists and engineers by using a video game interface to teach them STEM concepts and methods. Read More

November 10, 2021

Making parents’ lives easier

A pair of industrial engineering alumni have developed a product that will bring convenience and ease to parents and other caretakers when changing diapers on-the-go. Read More

November 8, 2021

Project aims to 3D print super-soft materials for health-monitoring sensors

A new project involving an interdisciplinary team of researchers aims to 3D print super-soft materials to create sensors that can better monitor health conditions ranging from cardiovascular diseases to COVID-19. Read More

October 26, 2021

Relieving stress through skateboarding

Everyone has their own ways of unwinding after a stressful day. Mechanical engineering student Josh Jarnagin unwinds by hopping on his skateboard and hitting the skatepark. Read More

October 25, 2021

ME student designs, fabricates outdoor desks to reduce spread of COVID-19

Studying outside is a common scene on the Iowa State University campus during the warmer months, and that ability to study outside became even easier because of an effort by a mechanical engineering student. Read More

October 12, 2021

Alum appointed deputy dean at Ugandan university

Three-time Iowa State University alum Denis Bbosa has been named the deputy dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology at Mbarara University in Uganda, which is the approximate equivalent of the College of Engineering at Iowa State University. Read More

September 30, 2021

Developing a skilled workforce in rural Iowa using advanced learning technologies

A team of interdisciplinary researchers at Iowa State University will study ways that they can utilize digital teaching technologies to effectively develop a robust workforce that will serve Iowa’s rural communities. Read More

September 30, 2021

Iowa State’s undergrad IE program ranked 20th

Iowa State University’s undergraduate program in industrial engineering is ranked 20th in the nation, according to the “Best Colleges 2022” rankings released by U.S. News and World Report. Iowa State’s IE program, which was first established at Iowa State in 1919, is one of just three programs within the College of Engineering to crack the top 25. Read More

September 17, 2021

Lights. Instruments. Action!

The Iowa State University Cyclone Football 'Varsity' Marching Band is performing during the 2018 Band Extravaganza. The drumline is equipped with lights that flash different colors every time they hit their drums and the crowd goes wild over the spectacle. This is when Jacob Schmieder, a trumpet player in the band, came up with a business idea. Read More

September 15, 2021

Student applies ME knowledge to develop prosthetics for amputee athletes

Mechanical engineering student Jillian Dunn has a passion for helping others. She spent her summer doing just that. Read More

September 14, 2021

Iowa State University students innovate environmentally sustainable solutions during Energy Vault Sprint

Ten Iowa State University students, including eight from the College of Engineering, are thinking green and digging into environmentally sustainable solutions in energy as part of a collaboration with the Student Innovation Center and innovation design sprint corporate sponsor, Energy Vault. Read More

September 13, 2021

ME researchers take second place in national Hackathon competition

A mechanical engineering (ME) team of two graduate students and a postdoctoral researcher took second place at the national Hackathon competition hosted earlier this… Read More

August 26, 2021

Engineers study advanced manufacturing methods in zero-gravity

A team of engineering researchers at Iowa State University is studying the most effective ways for manufacturing materials in outer space, with the hope that astronauts can use these methods while on space missions. Read More

August 26, 2021