Iowa State University’s newest courses will teach an ancient practice that has gained mass popularity in recent years: beer brewing.
Author: Nick Fetty
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Finding My Place at Iowa State
One student’s journey to discover how the Innovation Fellows program helped shape her freshman year.