Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ahmed Kamal, ECpE professor, passes away

It is with heavy hearts that we announce Dr. Ahmed Kamal, professor of ECpE, passed away this weekend. Dr Kamal was a dedicated teacher, researcher and engineer who impacted countless lives during his time in ECpE and at Iowa State University. Read More

May 2, 2023

David Wolfe: Outstanding senior in cyber security engineering

"I want to help people learn and tear down some of the walls preventing people from interacting with cyber security. You don't need an expert in the technical details of SSL encryption to understand how to be safe online. So, I plan on going back to my hometown to talk to students about security and continue to give talks and presentations to anyone who will listen after college." Read More

May 2, 2023

Kaili Lawson: Outstanding senior in computer engineering

"As a Cyclone Engineer, I will go out into industry with tons of experience working with others and a network of engineers supporting me along the way. The path to graduation is not an easy one, but everyone at Iowa State is in it together and supports each other along the way." Read More

May 2, 2023

Stuart Pearson: Outstanding senior in electrical engineering

"My undergraduate research work was valuable because I got a lot of hands-on experience with actual engineering equipment in the field, which has honed my skills in analyzing the inherent discrepancy between theory and real results. My senior design project has been very valuable in the exercise of bringing an idea that doesn’t currently exist into reality with nothing but the wits of my team." Read More

May 1, 2023

Hey Cimone, how do you make the most of the college experience?

When she is not working to keep the grid safe, she is working to ensure college students get the most out of their experience on campus. “I was motivated by students that were stumbling through their college degrees. There is more to college than the degree,” Wright-Hamor said. “The real benefits of college are access to the alumni network, the free or reduced-priced resources that help build your skills, and the amount of generalized knowledge in one location.” Read More

April 3, 2023

The Conversation: Doug Jacobson on the data privacy questions surrounding TikTok

Cyclone Engineer and cybersecurity expert Doug Jacobson wrote about the questions surrounding TikTok's data privacy in The Conversation. Read More

March 23, 2023

Presenting at the FAST’23 conference

ECpE PhD student Tabassum Mahmud, studying computer engineering, and undergrad Carson Love, in cyber security engineering, are two co-authors of a paper “ConfD: Analyzing Configuration Dependencies of File Systems for Fun and Profit”  that was accepted to appear at the 2023 USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST’23). Read More

March 10, 2023

Through the blown glass: Iris Top combines engineering and art

Iris Top is a graduate student at Iowa State University studying computer engineering, with a degree focus in secure and reliable computing. The summer of 2022 marked the end of Top's term as president of the Gaffer’s Guild, a student organization dedicated to the education and training in the art and science of glassblowing. Members are encouraged to take their learning a step further by working on their own to master specific skills or shapes.  Read More

March 3, 2023

Spaceflight Operations Workshop returns in August – apply now!

Do you have what it takes? If pushing yourself to master new tasks, employing teamwork and following operational thinking to achieve goals sounds like a great way to end your summer, then you need to apply for the Department of Aerospace Engineering’s 2023 Spaceflight Operations Workshop™. Read More

March 2, 2023

Computer engineering senior gains leadership skills interning at Meta

Computer engineering senior Kalli Lawson spent her summer in Austin, Texas, interning with Meta Platforms, Inc. - the tech giant behind media technologies like Facebook and Instagram. Read More

February 22, 2023

Growing crops in a solar farm’s footprint

A new Iowa State University research project will explore how to grow crops and keep bees amid solar panels. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, most of the research will be conducted a few miles south of Ames, where Alliant Energy plans to begin construction in April on a 1.35 megawatt solar farm. Read More

February 15, 2023

Designing tomorrow’s wind energy innovations in Collegiate Wind Competition 

Cyclone Engineering’s Wind Energy team is on their way to compete in Phase 2 of the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2023 Collegiate Wind Competition. The Iowa State student group was selected as one of the 13 teams to compete in designing and building a prototype wind turbine, designing an offshore wind farm and presenting about wind energy careers and outreach. Read More

February 14, 2023

Meet the new ECpE faculty: Manojit Pramanik

Manojit Pramanik new professor for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECpE) that started in the Spring. Pramanik brings extensive experience and research to the department. The following Q and A is a chance to get to know Pramanik. Read More

February 6, 2023

Sound seeing: Sam Das pairs audio sensing with artificial intelligence to monitor International Space Station 

As an artificial intelligence research leader at Bosch, Samarjit Das (‘10 Ph.D. electrical engineering) has partnered with NASA to develop deep audio analytics technologies that monitor the health of machines in space. And back here on earth, he’s using audio sensing with AI to improve disease diagnosis. Read More

February 6, 2023

Katherine Gisi: A spark for engineering better brain imaging

Katherine Gisi, senior in electrical engineering, wants us all to be able to understand an important, complex electrical system: the human brain. Read More

February 3, 2023