Awards

Peter C. Collins named fellow of Alpha Sigma Mu
Peter C. Collins, professor of materials science and engineering and The Stanley Chair in Interdisciplinary Engineering, has been named a fellow of the Alpha Sigma Mu, an international professional society for the field of materials science and engineering. Read More

April 7, 2025
Nicole Hashemi recognized as emerging inventor by the NAI
Nicole Hashemi, associate professor of mechanical engineering, has been named a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors. The honor recognizes the nation’s top emerging leaders in turning innovative discoveries into new technologies and products. Read More

March 6, 2025
Halil Ceylan receives highest honor in transportation engineering
Halil Ceylan, the Pitt-Des Moines, Inc. Endowed Professor in Civil Engineering, has been honored with the Francis C. Turner Award by the Transportation and Development Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Read More

March 5, 2025
Mark Bryden named ASME Fellow
Mark Bryden, mechanical engineering professor and founding program director of the Division of Simulation, Modeling and Decision Science at Ames National Laboratory, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME). Read More

February 28, 2025
Alumnus Rao Surampalli receives ASCE OPAL award
Cyclone Engineer Rao Surampalli has received a 2025 American Society of Civil Engineers Outstanding Projects and Leaders Award. Read More

February 25, 2025
Robert C. Brown elected to National Academy of Engineering
Robert C. Brown, Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering and the Gary and Donna Hoover Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering, one of the most prestigious recognitions in the field of engineering. Read More

February 21, 2025
Xinwei Wang named Fellow of Optica
Xinwei Wang, Anson Marston Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Wilkinson Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering, has been named a Fellow Member of Optica by the society’s board of directors. Read More

January 31, 2025
Alice Alipour named American Society of Civil Engineers Structural Engineering Institute Fellow
Alice Alipour, associate professor and Thomas M. Murray Family Faculty Fellow of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, has been named an American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) Fellow. Alipour has been at Iowa State since 2015, making significant contributions to the structural engineering field. Read More

January 30, 2025
Matt Darr and Eric Cochran elected fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
The two Cyclone Engineers hold a combined 141 patents. Read More

December 10, 2024
Melissa Boom: IE Alum Receives 2024 Women MAKE Award
For Boom it is important to spend time on being a positive role model for female employees. She mentors several female leaders at Winnebago Industries and is committed to the success of STEM programming for young students in high school. Read More

November 8, 2024
Michael Dorneich named Morrill Professor
Michael Dorneich, Joseph Walkup Professor of Engineering and professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering has been named Morrill Professor. The Morrill Professorship is a university award recognizing faculty members for their national and international reputation of demonstrated outstanding success in teaching and learning in undergraduate, graduate and/or extension/outreach programs. Read More

September 24, 2024
Teaching and research recognition for aerospace engineering graduate students
Four graduate students from the Department of Aerospace Engineering have received the Teaching Excellence (TEX) and Research Excellence (REX) Awards for spring semester 2024. Read More

August 8, 2024
Namrata Vaswani named AAAS Fellow for outstanding contributions to the field of statistical machine learning
Namrata Vaswani, the Joseph and Elizabeth Anderlik Professor in Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Read More

April 18, 2024
Hugo Villegas Pico receives NSF CAREER award to cement research of long-term electromagnetic-transient simulations
Department of electrical and computer engineering Harpole-Pentair Assistant Professor Hugo Villegas Pico has been selected for a 2023 National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award for his project “Advances to the EMT Modeling and Simulation of Restoration Processes for Future Grids.” Read More

February 9, 2024
Two mechanical engineering faculty recently named ASME Fellows
Two mechanical engineering faculty, Adarsh Krishnamurthy, associate professor, and Eliot Winer, professor, were recently named Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Read More

February 7, 2024