Category: Awards (other)
awards not from the university
Cyclone Engineers receive National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship
The National Science Foundation awarded four Cyclone Engineers with their prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship.
ME’s David Reynolds selected for Stanford ADVANCE Undergraduate Institute
David Reynolds, a junior in mechanical engineering, has been selected for the highly competitive Stanford ADVANCE Undergraduate Institute (AUI).
ME student selected as Truman Scholar
CBE’s Reuel gets 3M faculty grant for resonant sensors in wound monitoring
The innovative research of wound healing through the use of resonant sensors will take a step forward in Iowa State’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) thanks to a 3M young faculty award received by Nigel Reuel. Reuel, assistant professor, Jack R. and Carol A. Johnson Faculty Fellow and Black and Veatch Building a …Continue reading “CBE’s Reuel gets 3M faculty grant for resonant sensors in wound monitoring”
Sustainable agriculture in the cloud: ECpE’s Kumar receives $600,000 NSF award
Sustainable agriculture in the cloud: ECpE’s Kumar receives $600,000 NSF award Farming and agriculture are the core of the Midwest, and especially Iowa — so enhancing sustainable farming practices is a must at Iowa State University. Ratnesh Kumar, Murray J. and Ruth M. Harpole Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa …Continue reading “Sustainable agriculture in the cloud: ECpE’s Kumar receives $600,000 NSF award”
ECpE alum reflects on receiving 50th US patent
ECpE alum reflects on receiving 50th US patent Many engineers look back to their childhood memories and can see clues leading up to their jobs today — buildings made with Legos, science experiments in the living room. Iowa State University computer engineering alum Wade Demmer remembers his time as a young innovator, signing up …Continue reading “ECpE alum reflects on receiving 50th US patent”
Q&A with 2020 Goldwater Scholar Divyesh Kumar
Divyesh Kumar, a junior in chemical and biological engineering from Ames, has been named a 2020 Goldwater Scholar. The nationally renowned scholarship recognizes exceptional sophomores and juniors who aspire to work in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering research fields.
ME student named finalist for prestigious Truman Scholarship
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.
ECpE Professor Vaswani gives keynote at image processing conference
On Dec. 22, 2019, Anderlik Professor Namrata Vaswani in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University attended the seventh national conference on computer vision, pattern recognition, image processing and graphics (NCVPRIPG 2019) as a keynote speaker. The conference was held at Hubballi, Karnataka, India. Vaswani was one of six keynote speakers at NCVPRIPG. She …Continue reading “ECpE Professor Vaswani gives keynote at image processing conference”
ECpE grad student Vivek-Kumar Singh receives best paper, best poster awards
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”
Li wins Rising Researcher award from international professional society
An Iowa State University mechanical engineering faculty member is among 13 from across the globe recognized as a distinguished young professional by a professional society in his field. Beiwen Li, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, was named a 2020 DCS Rising Researcher by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. The Rising Researchers …Continue reading “Li wins Rising Researcher award from international professional society”
ECpE’s Kumar delivers keynote at IC3 and is “Best Paper Award” finalist at ICINCO
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”
IE team receives honorable mention in international contest
Congrats to IE students Haley Beving, Jakob Pyburn, Albert Samuel and Robert Quiles-Fernan who received honorable mention in Simio’s December 2019 Student Simulation contest, meaning they placed in the top 8 out of nearly 300 teams. The Iowa State team was tasked with using the Simio simulation software to improve operations at a fictional regional …Continue reading “IE team receives honorable mention in international contest”
NCAA champ says discipline applies to both sports and school
“Being an athlete you have to be disciplined. You can’t be successful without being disciplined.” As a NCAA champion in cross-country, Edwin Kurgat knows about the level of discipline required to reach goals. He also applies this same level of discipline to his study habits as an industrial engineering student. Growing up in Eldoret, Kenya, …Continue reading “NCAA champ says discipline applies to both sports and school”