Research by Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering and Murray Harpole Chair in Engineering Valery Levitas looks at plastic strain-induced phase transformations in silicon. It has seen publication in Nature Communications.
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2024 Cyclone Engineering faculty and staff award winners, named faculty positions and new patents
Congratulations to 2024 College of Engineering faculty and staff award winners, new named faculty positions, and patent recipients.
Hui Hu named Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering
Hui Hu, Martin C. Jischke Professor in Aerospace Engineering, has been named an Anson Marston Distinguished Professor, one of Iowa State’s highest honors for faculty members.
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.
Bion Pierson, longtime Aerospace Engineering faculty member, passes away
Bion Pierson, a noted aerospace engineering researcher and member of the Department of Aerospace Engineering faculty for 43 years, has passed away.
Researchers working to keep electric vehicles charging, even when the lights go out
The researchers will analyze multiple years of real outage data from Ames, Dayton and Indianapolis to see how often there are problems and how long it takes to recover from them.
Bastawros awarded for advances in packaging electronic devices
Ashraf Bastawros has been named recipient of the prestigious 2024 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Electronic and Photonic Packaging Division (EPPD) Excellence in Mechanics Award.
David Eisenmann is bringing Ground Penetrating Radar to agriculture at the CNDE
Materials Science and Engineering Assistant Teaching Professor David Eisenmann has several projects at the CNDE, including innovating Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) to help the precision agriculture industry. He has been using GPR for over a decade, and has now turned his attention to South America, where he is helping crop producers track their planting rate using GPR.
“Launchpad to Tomorrow” K-12 STEM program gets go-ahead with Extension and Outreach funding
A new program to spur interest in space and aerospace for K-12 students in Iowa will be funded by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.
Welcoming Philip Cox, new professor of practice in agricultural and biosystems engineering
Mechanical engineering undergraduate and graduate program alumnus and long-time John Deere teammate Philip Cox will be leading Capstone!
Quad Cities Manufacturing Institute launched to serve defense, manufacturing sectors
“Iowa State University is proud to be part of this groundbreaking partnership to establish the Quad Cities Manufacturing Institute,” said Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen. “This initiative will bring to bear our strengths as a land-grant university…”
Trusting the robot in the workplace
Jundi Liu, assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, graduate student Mobina Amrollahi, and undergraduate research assistant Rindirisia Wangira are actively conducting AGV/human trust laboratory studies using a virtual reality apparatus for human-robot interaction research.
Modern manufacturing is seeing rapid changes in the workplace. One change is integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated technologies like Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) into operational processes.
Three in aerospace engineering head into fall semester with faculty promotions
Three Department of Aerospace Engineering faculty members have received advancements that recently became effective.
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.
Aerospace engineering group takes first place in national student paper competition
A group of Department of Aerospace Engineering graduate researchers and others has received first place in an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics paper competition.