CoE News

College of Engineering hosts 2024 Iowa Science Olympiad state tournament

Thirty four teams of middle and high school students competed in the Iowa Science Olympiad state tournament, hosted by the College of Engineering. The winning teams move on to nationals. Read More

April 17, 2024

Student team to participate in national custom-built aircraft competition

A team of Iowa State University students are headed to Wichita, Kansas as entrants in a nationwide competition sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Read More

April 15, 2024

CyLaunch M:2:I team heads to national competition with unique 3D-printed rocket

All systems are “go” for The Department of Aerospace Engineering’s CyLaunch student team in in Huntsville, Alabama, taking part in the NASA Student Launch Competition. Read More

April 10, 2024

Engineers making a better, more profitable grid for distributing solar power

Zhaoyu Wang’s research specialty is working to modernize electric grids for better, more reliable energy flow. The latest project he’s leading, in fact, is called “MODERNISE,” for “Modernizing Operation and Decision-Making Tools Enabling Resource Management in Stochastic Environment.” Read More

April 10, 2024

Student balloon team focuses on solar eclipse opportunity to advance hands-on discoveries

The HABET high-altitude balloon student team with the Make To Innovate program will take part in studying the solar eclipse April 8 as part of the National Eclipse Balloon Project. Read More

April 4, 2024

Combating Corrosion with 3D-Printed Biofilm

It is an industry-standard practice to rid structures of these microorganisms with chemicals to slow corrosion progression, often coming with high costs and risks to human and environmental health. However, what Associate Professor Kaoru Ikuma and her researchers found is that other microorganisms, or even the same ones, could actually inhibit corrosion. Read More

March 29, 2024

W. Samuel Easterling reappointed as the James L. and Katherine S. Melsa Dean of Engineering

Easterling stabilized undergraduate enrollment, created new degree programs, hired 60 new faculty, raised nearly $150 million in private and corporate donations, and secured record research funding in his first five-year term. Read More

March 28, 2024

Making strides in grain preservation from 6,000 miles away

ABE 4690 is getting hands-on experience recording data and taking steps to solve real-time issues affecting international populations. Read More

March 27, 2024

Lin Zhou explores the atomic realm at the Sensitive Instrument Facility

The Sensitive Instrument Facility (SIF), a part of Ames National Laboratory, boasts two-feet thick concrete floors with built-in vibration-dampening layers, aluminum-plate lined bays, and fiberglass reinforced concrete for electro-magnetic isolation and vibration-free heating and ventilation. These features help ensure that state-of-the-art instrumentation housed in the SIF achieves the most accurate results. Read More

March 26, 2024

Hongwei Zhang awarded Willard and Leitha Richardson Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Zhang is a leader in the research of wireless networks. He is the director of the Center for Wireless, Communities and Innovation (WiCI) as well as the principal investigator for ARA, a first-of-its-kind wireless living lab to connect rural communities and industries. Read More

March 26, 2024

Eight NSF CAREER awards in 2024 for Iowa State Engineering

Cyclone Engineers received seven National Science Foundation CAREER awards in 2024. Read More

March 24, 2024

A new device to address critical climate change soil impacts.

To combat the monetary barrier of a shear and temperature testing device, Emami Ahari decided to create one. Read More

March 22, 2024

Four graduate students in aerospace engineering enjoy teaching and research honors

Teaching and research expertise in the fall semester of 2023 has been recognized for four Department of Aerospace Engineering graduate students. Read More

March 22, 2024

From uncertain to passionate, Erik DeMeyere found his path in materials engineering

“I was really struggling with what path I wanted to take. I enjoyed physics and chemistry in high school but knew I didn’t want to be a chemist or physicist,” DeMeyere said. “And then I saw materials engineering listed, which, at the time, I didn’t even know existed. After doing some research, I realized I had been interested in materials science all along.” Read More

March 22, 2024

Sid Pathak receives NSF CAREER award for studying pseudomorphic phases in multilayered nano-laminates

Department of Materials Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Sid Pathak has been selected for a 2024 National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award for his project, “Towards a Fundamental Understanding of Interface Strain-Driven Pseudomorphic Phase Transformations in Multilayered Nanocomposites.” Read More

March 21, 2024