Awards

Mark Lashier receives Cyclone Engineering’s highest alumni honor, the Anson Marston Medal
Mark Lashier ('85, PhD '89 chemical engineering) is a 2022 Anson Marston Medal recipient. The Marston Medal is the college's highest alumni honor. Read More

October 14, 2022
Max Porter receives Cyclone Engineering’s highest alumni honor, the Anson Marston Medal
Max Porter (’65 civil engineering, MS ’68, PhD 74 structural engineering) is a 2022 Anson Marston Medal recipient. The Marston Medal is the college's highest alumni honor. Read More

October 14, 2022
Here to make a change: Grad student Grace Carey receives Brown Graduate Fellowship, empowered to study sustainable agriculture
One of only twelve awardees at Iowa State University, and housed in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, microbiology student Grace Carey received the $10,000 prestigious Brown Graduate Fellowship. Carey’s path to where she is today, a third-year, successful doctoral student, was a hard-earned path paved with her drive for environmental justice and passion for sustainable agriculture. Read More

October 6, 2022
CCEE senior Caleb Stevenson receives ISU alums’ Burg-Coleman Fellowship
The Burg-Colman Iowa State ‘77 Fellowship was created in 2021 to award students who are studying an advanced degree in civil engineering. Caleb Stevenson, a senior studying Civil Engineering at Iowa State University, will become the first-ever recipient of this fellowship. Read More

September 14, 2022
ISU ABE takes home awards in several categories at 2022 ASABE Annual International Meeting
The Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering took the 2022 ASABE Annual International Meeting by storm this summer, bringing home several awards, accomplishments and successes in a large variety of areas of the conference. Read More

September 13, 2022
Outstanding contributions: Cyclone Engineering faculty and staff award winners, named faculty positions and new patents
Recognizing College of Engineering faculty and staff award winners, new named faculty positions, and patents received. Read More

September 7, 2022
ME’s Kingston named World of Difference Faculty Fellow in Engineering
Todd Kingston, assistant professor in mechanical engineering (ME), has been named a Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellow in Engineering. Read More

August 30, 2022
IMSE’s Li named World of Difference Faculty Fellow in Engineering
Qing Li, assistant professor in industrial and manufacturing systems engineering (IMSE), has been named a Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellow in Engineering. Read More

August 30, 2022
CCEE’s Beena Ajmera receives mentoring and leadership award
Beena Ajmera, an assistant professor at Iowa State University’s Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering (CCEE), was surprised and honored when she learned she had been selected to receive the Early-Career Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award from the Engineering Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research. Read More

August 15, 2022
Iowa State Power Pullers place 4th in tractor competition
The Iowa State University Power Pullers Club came in 4th overall at the International ¼ Scale Tractor Student Design Competition. Read More

August 8, 2022
Two CBE postdocs receive excellence awards
Postdocs Jungkuk Lee and Susheel Kumar Nethi of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) have been awarded Postdoctoral Scholar Excellence Awards from the Graduate College of Iowa State University. Read More

August 3, 2022
Iowa State researchers receive FAA awards
Philippe Meister, a recent Ph.D. graduate in human-computer interaction (HCI), and Michael Dorneich, professor in industrial and manufacturing systems engineering (IMSE), were both recognized during the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) annual meeting for its Partnership to Enhance General Aviation Safety, Accessibility and Sustainability (PEGASAS) program held this summer in Chicago. Meister is the recipient of the 2021 Outstanding Student Researcher Award while Dorneich won the 2021 Jimenez Faculty / Researcher Award. Read More

July 18, 2022
Faculty Professional Development Assignment leads to patent for IMSE prof
The Faculty Professional Development Assignment (FPDA) taken by one industrial engineering professor has paid off in the form of a patent. Matt Frank, the John B. Slater Professor of Sustainable Design & Manufacturing, and a team of engineers from Deere and Company were recently issued U.S. Patent 11,364,536 B1 for the “layered slab manufacturing system and method” Read More

June 27, 2022
Two ABE Grad Students Receive Outstanding Degree Awards
Eric Henning and Lirong Xiang have each earned awards for their outstanding accomplishments in earning their degrees. Read More

May 27, 2022
ME’s Hamidreza Zobeiri wins Zaffarano Prize
Hamidreza Zobeiri, Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering, is the winner of the 2022 Zaffarano Prize for Graduate Student Research. Each spring semester, the Graduate College gives this honor to a graduate student with superior publishable research. Read More

May 23, 2022