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    Apply now for Spaceflight Operations Workshop™! Do you have what it takes?

    If “What I Did This Summer” essays were still a thing in school, the Department of Aerospace Engineering Spaceflight Operations Workshop would offer some great inspiration. And while those selected for this year’s edition may or may not be writing essays about it later, it will give them something even more valuable: a new way of looking at the world and handling challenges – from an “operational” standpoint. The application period for the two-week experience, set for August 2-14, 2022, is now open. As always, it will depart from the typical college classroom experience, to engage students in hands-on activities to learn planning, execution, and teamwork while transforming their thought processes to be more operationally centered. Read More

    February 2, 2022

  • A group of Iowa State University engineering researcher pose in front of an aircraft and give thumbs-up to the camera. All researcher are wearing blue jumpsuits.
    Cyclone engineers take to the sky for advanced manufacturing research

    A team of Iowa State University College of Engineering researchers recently experienced something that few ever will: a zero-gravity environment. Read More

    January 27, 2022

  • IMSE’s Peters receives prestigious industry award for metalcasting research

    Frank Peters, C. G. "Turk" and Joyce A. Therkildsen Professor, is the 2021 recipient of the Thomas E. Barlow Award of Honor from the Steel Founders’ Society of America. Read More

    January 7, 2022

  • Iowa Lakes teams up with Iowa State to test batteries

    Iowa Lakes Community College collaborates with Iowa State University to provide hands-on learning experiences to engineering students. The experimental collaboration utilizes a battery testing machine purchased with a grant obtained by both colleges. The device will allow engineering students to collect data on the optimal charging cycles of battery cells. Read More

    December 22, 2021

  • A student poses next to a status of Cy - the Iowa State University mascot - dressed up like an astronaut.
    IE’s Tokadlı named Fall 2021 Graduate College student marshal

    For the second semester in a row, a College of Engineering student has been selected as the Graduate College’s student marshal and this semester that honor goes to Güliz Tokadlı, a Ph.D. candidate in industrial engineering and human-computer interaction. Tokadlı’s graduate school experience differs from most doctoral students in that she is working full-time while pursuing her Ph.D. In September, she starting working as the human factors lead at Locomotion, a company working on autonomous trucking technology. Read More

    December 17, 2021

  • Ashley Sackpraseuth: College of Engineering Student Marshal

    Ashley Sackpraseuth is the fall 2021 student marshal for the College of Engineering. Read More

    December 6, 2021

  • Two young ladies smile for the camera. They are both wearing red Iowa State University gear.
    IE friends will go on to work for competing companies

    A pair of industrial engineering students who befriended each other at Iowa State University will now go their separate ways as they go to work for competing window manufacturers after graduation. Read More

    November 10, 2021

  • Two men pose with their product, the DubleRoo, in front of a tree with red and orange leaves.
    Making parents’ lives easier

    A pair of industrial engineering alumni have developed a product that will bring convenience and ease to parents and other caretakers when changing diapers on-the-go. Read More

    November 8, 2021

  • Iowa State’s undergrad IE program ranked 20th

    Iowa State University’s undergraduate program in industrial engineering is ranked 20th in the nation, according to the “Best Colleges 2022” rankings released by U.S. News and World Report. Iowa State’s IE program, which was first established at Iowa State in 1919, is one of just three programs within the College of Engineering to crack the top 25. Read More

    September 17, 2021

  • Turk and Joyce Therkildsen pose and smile inside Marston Hall.
    Building for the Future

    Thanks to a $42 million gift commitment from C.G. “Turk” and Joyce A. McEwen Therkildsen, the department will have a new facility that will serve as its home and provide technically enhanced research laboratory and learning spaces where industrial engineering students can gain the knowledge to design tomorrow’s innovative, nimble and intelligent processes needed now more than ever across all industrial sectors. Read More

    September 15, 2021

  • Black and white senior photos of Charles George “Turk” Therkildsen and Joyce Arlene McEwen Therkildsen from the 1959 Iowa State University yearbook.
    The Power of Love, Education and an Entrepreneurial Spirit

    A feature article about Iowa State University alumni C.G. “Turk” and Joyce A. McEwen Therkildsen. Read More

    September 15, 2021

  • Materials science and engineering assistant professor Shan Jiang and industrial and manufacturing systems engineering assistant professor Hantang Qin pose inside a laboratory on the Iowa State University campus. A 3D printer can be seen in the background of the shot.
    Engineers study advanced manufacturing methods in zero-gravity

    A team of engineering researchers at Iowa State University is studying the most effective ways for manufacturing materials in outer space, with the hope that astronauts can use these methods while on space missions. Read More

    August 26, 2021

  • Ryan named interim chair for Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering

    Sarah Ryan Sarah Ryan, Joseph Walkup Professor, has been named the interim chair for Iowa State University’s Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering… Read More

    August 16, 2021

  • IMSE students, faculty recognized by industrial engineering professional society

    Eleven students and faculty members from Iowa State University’s Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering (IMSE) were named award winners during the Institute… Read More

    August 10, 2021

  • Vardeman to retire after nearly four decades at Iowa State University

    Vardeman Longtime Iowa State University faculty member Steve Vardeman officially retired at the conclusion of the 2020-21 school year. Vardeman first joined the… Read More

    May 11, 2021