Category: Materials Science and Engineering
Category: Materials Science and Engineering
Grant Johnson: Outstanding senior in materials engineering
Grant Johnson is the spring 2021 outstanding senior in materials engineering.
Worldwide impact: Two engineering faculty selected for Jefferson Science Fellows Program
Two Iowa State University College of Engineering faculty members have been selected for the prestigious 2021-2022 Jefferson Science Fellows Program. Ramesh Kanwar, Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture and Life Sciences in the agricultural and biosystems engineering department, and Richard LeSar, professor of materials science and engineering department, will spend one year on assignment … Continue reading Worldwide impact: Two engineering faculty selected for Jefferson Science Fellows Program
Discoveries led by MSE’s Thuo appear on two journal covers
Discoveries led by Martin Thuo, associate professor of materials science and engineering, appear on the cover of Angewandte Chemie and Materials Horizon.
Metal whispering: Finding a better way to recover precious metals from electronic waste
Engineering solutions to keep labs, learning going during pandemic
MSE’s Li selected for Brown Graduate Fellowship Program
ISU engineers featured in article: Battery storage could play ‘key role’ in Iowa’s energy resilience
Three from MSE receive ISU COVID-19 Exceptional Effort Awards
Iowa State University has announced COVID-19 Exceptional Effort Awards to recognize the extraordinary and innovative ways Iowa Staters strived to overcome the challenges of the pandemic. Over 50 individuals and teams received awards, and 647 total people were nominated. Award recipients include three members of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering: Associate Professor Jun … Continue reading Three from MSE receive ISU COVID-19 Exceptional Effort Awards
Nanosurfactant discoveries appear in Nano Letters
Shan Jiang, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, and his team had research published in Nano Letters, a high-impact journal published by the American Chemical Society. The research is centered around the activation and creation of “Plasmonic-Magnetic Nanosurfactants for Encapsulation and Triggered Release.” The team behind the research includes postdoctoral research associates Fei Liu; … Continue reading Nanosurfactant discoveries appear in Nano Letters
MSE at Iowa State: Latest issue of Elements out now
The latest issue of Elements, the newsletter for alumni and friends of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University, is online now! Take a look at all we’ve been up to lately. Read the digital publication here: https://mailchi.mp/42be05237178/mse-elements-spring-2021
Borrowing from birds, experts reduce search times for novel high-entropy alloys to seconds
MSE honors three with departmental Research Excellence Awards
Three graduate students and recent graduates in the Iowa State University Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) have received departmental MSE Research Excellence Awards: Trishelle Copeland-Johnson, Emily Olson and Pratyasha Mohapatra. Trishelle Copeland-Johnson Copeland-Johnson, who recently received her Ph.D. from Iowa State in the fall 2020 semester, worked with MSE Professor Nicola Bowler. “My … Continue reading MSE honors three with departmental Research Excellence Awards
MSE’s Andrew Martin, Yifan Li receive excellence awards
Recent graduate Andrew Martin and Ph.D. candidate Yifan Li, both with Iowa State University‘s Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), have received awards for their work: The Iowa State Graduate College Research Excellence Award and Teaching Excellence Award, respectively. The research award recognizes graduate students for outstanding research accomplishments as documented in their theses and dissertations, … Continue reading MSE’s Andrew Martin, Yifan Li receive excellence awards
New DOD projects support new instruments, with eye on new materials
Two Iowa State University engineering faculty members have received awards from the Department of Defense under the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP).
