Category: Academics

Iowa State University named exemplary program for diversifying engineering education

March 27, 2020 • Kristin Clague

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has named Iowa State University a top institution for diversifying engineering education based on admissions policies, practices and processes. According to a press release from the organization, NAE received nominations from accredited four-year undergraduate schools with engineering or engineering technology programs. The submissions were reviewed by an NAE-appointed committee … Continue reading Iowa State University named exemplary program for diversifying engineering education

Solving a 50-year-old puzzle in signal processing, part two

March 25, 2020 • Kristin Clague

Agricultural and biosystems engineering graduate program takes top ranking

March 18, 2020 • bbeach

ME student named finalist for prestigious Truman Scholarship

March 13, 2020 • Laurel Tiedeman

Juan Bibiloni-Rivera, junior in mechanical engineering, has been announced as a finalist for the national Harry S. Truman Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to high achieving, student-leaders in academia, research and healthcare throughout the United States.

Winners announced for 2020 engineering pitch competition

February 26, 2020 • Nick Fetty

Winners have been announced for the College of Engineering pitch competition that took place inside the Student Innovation Center on Feb. 21. In the Existing Business Idea category, Cole Jensen (senior, mechanical engineering) took first place while a team including Nathan Kopp (freshman, mechanical engineering) was runner-up. In the New Idea category, Charles Cremault (sophomore, … Continue reading Winners announced for 2020 engineering pitch competition

ECpE grad student Vivek-Kumar Singh receives best paper, best poster awards

February 19, 2020 • Sarah Hays

Vivek-Kumar Singh, a graduate student at Iowa State University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, recently presented his research and has received a best paper and best poster award at two separate conferences since November 2019. Singh received the best paper award at a conference known as Resilience Week, held in November. Resilience Week has been … Continue reading ECpE grad student Vivek-Kumar Singh receives best paper, best poster awards

MSE’s Jiang receives $500k award from NSF for first-in-the-nation graduate program

February 19, 2020 • Kristin Clague

From Nicaragua to Senegal, ME alum is helping around the world

February 17, 2020 • Nick Fetty

Helping people has always been a personal mission of Iowa State alum Patrick Ward. It was part of the reason he chose to study mechanical engineering. It was part of the reason he traveled abroad to Nicaragua as a student. And now it is part of the reason he left his full-time engineering job to … Continue reading From Nicaragua to Senegal, ME alum is helping around the world

An interdisciplinary path to plant root research

February 6, 2020 • Anna Toot

No day is “just a normal day” in Ludovico Cademartiri’s research group. Not when there are so many questions to answer about crop plants using a convergence of materials science and engineering, genetics, predictive phenomics and chemical engineering. “We are working on many exploratory projects, including answering some fundamental questions about plant communication and challenging … Continue reading An interdisciplinary path to plant root research

Incoming ME faculty member returns to his roots

February 5, 2020 • Nick Fetty

Some kids grow up wanting to be an astronaut or a doctor or any other number of careers. This wasn’t the case for Cody H. Fleming. He admits that growing up he was more interested in sports than his schoolwork. However, because of the persistence and encouragement from some of his teachers and mentors, he … Continue reading Incoming ME faculty member returns to his roots

Naval experience paved the way for ME alum

January 28, 2020 • Nick Fetty 2 Comments

While many college students gain first-hand engineering experience through internships and co-ops, Ryan Williams was gaining this experience before he even stepped foot on campus. Williams served as an aviation structural mechanic for the U.S. Navy after high school which taught him how hydraulic systems and flight control components work together to put an aircraft … Continue reading Naval experience paved the way for ME alum

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECpE) Professor Ratnesh Kumar at Iowa State University recently gave a keynote talk at International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3) in India. This conference has been running annually since 2008. Kumar, one of seven keynote speakers at the conference, spoke on Model-Based Safety Analysis in Cyber-Physical Systems. “This was … Continue reading ECpE’s Kumar delivers keynote at IC3 and is “Best Paper Award” finalist at ICINCO