Cardinal Electric students experience roles as electrical contractors in innovation challenge

This year's competition includes taking on the role of the electrical contractor in order to complete various project management tasks, compiled into their overall proposal. Read More

April 19, 2023

Food, fuel, medicine: Grain is everywhere and evolving, Kurt Rosentrater says

If you need to talk to an expert on grain, Kurt Rosentrater is the expert for you. Read More

April 13, 2023

Leon Schumacher: “If we ever needed engineering in agriculture, we need it today”

Before he graduated and ever since, Schumacher has been passionate about engineering in agriculture, believing that the digital revolution is bringing new possibilities to agriculture as we know it. Read More

March 20, 2023

Dela Houssou: “We need resilient infrastructure more than ever, and AI can help us create it”

Houssou, senior in civil engineering, is conducting research with associate professor Alice Alipour on how to make Iowa’s power infrastructure more resilient to climate change. Due to climate change, natural disasters are becoming more common and severe. Following suit, infrastructure all around Iowa needs to be able to account for more of these dangerous and frequent storms. Read More

March 17, 2023

Rural agriculture needs reliable communication: Josh Peschel launches new technology in ag hotspots

Josh Peschel, assistant professor in agricultural and biosystems engineering, is linking agriculture and technology together in a nationwide research project funded by the National Science Foundation. The team, led by Hongwei Zhang, a professor in electrical and computer engineering, is launching a test bed for experimentation to develop new, wireless networking tools that would serve remote areas - especially ones here in Iowa. Read More

March 6, 2023

Restore what once was: Flora Kafunda engineers ways to restore ecosystems faster

“After what has been done, there are a lot of ecosystems that we can’t get back naturally - so what are our alternatives? What can we engineer to replace the missing parts of an ecosystem that it really needs to thrive?” Read More

February 13, 2023

Student organization’s “concrete hearts” spread Valentine’s Day cheer this February

The Concrete Canoe Club in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering is beginning their third year of Valentine’s Day cheer as they build and sell their very own creation: concrete hearts. Read More

February 1, 2023

If walls could talk: Cyclone Engineers develop cyber-physical system for exterior walls to “think for themselves”

Associate professor Alice Alipour (CCEE), associate professor Behrouz Shafei (CCEE) and professor Partha Sarkar (aerospace engineering) received a grant from the NSF in 2018 to study what they call a Smorphacade (short for a Smart Morphing Façade), a type of building exterior that is what some could consider alive. Recently, they received another project from NSF to conduct technology transfer on this fundamentally transformative idea. Read More

January 31, 2023

Holographic hard hats ahead: Cyclone Engineers break into the third dimension of structural design

Civil engineering sophomore Liam Lenahan and assistant professor Roy Sturgill are working together to bring the third dimension into structural design. The two are bringing 3D projects into the classroom through a very ‘construction-style’ medium: hard hats.  Read More

January 26, 2023

ISU Power Pullers: Pushing the edge of innovation

What drives the members of ISU Power Pullers Club Read More

January 23, 2023

Thoughts turning, wheels rolling: Hory Chikez and students design and build mobile assembly lab

Ping! was the sound of Hory Chikez’s thoughts when the spark of an idea was ignited one September afternoon. Read More

January 9, 2023