The Iowa Board of Regents recently approved Shan Jiang’s promotion to associate professor of materials science and engineering with tenure, effective July 1.
Category: Materials Science and Engineering
MSE PhD student earns Brown Graduate Fellowship Cohort
Twelve Iowa State University graduate students have been selected to receive $120,000 in Brown Graduate Fellowship Program funding to support strategic university research over the next year.
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.
Change Agent: Martin Thuo, materials science and engineering
Martin Thuo and his research group have developed heat-free solder. They’ve printed electronics on rose petals. They’ve made “chameleon metals” that change surfaces in response to heat. With a bit of “metal whispering,” they’ve found a better way to recover precious metals from electronic waste.
And now, after two and a half years of work, they’ve invented a new seed lubricant.
What’s the source of that creativity?
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.
Tara Hoffman: Outstanding senior in materials engineering
Tara Hoffman is the fall 2021 outstanding senior in materials engineering.
MSE welcomes Administrative Assistant Makayla Lim
The Iowa State University Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) welcomes Makayla Lim to its staff as administrative assistant.
MSE honors grad students with departmental awards
Several graduate students in the Iowa State University Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) recently received departmental awards and scholarships: Scott Blazanin, Tyler Del Rose, Yifan Li, Matthew Marander, Madison Olson and Skye Supakul.
REFORM plays to the tune of sustainability
When most of us think “recycling,” we don’t also immediately think “music.” But innovative students at Iowa State are collaborating across disciplines to find the perfect harmony between materials science, reducing waste, and creating new musical instruments.
In the Recyclables Evolved from Offscouring Remade to Music (REFORM) project, students from areas in engineering, particularly materials science and engineering, are working together with student in music and theatre to reduce plastic waste at Iowa State by gathering plastic materials and transforming them into durable plastic musical instruments.
An unusual request: MSE’s Alan Constant officiates graduate student’s wedding
Iowa State University Teaching Professor Alan Constant officiated the wedding of high school sweethearts Jonathan Zaugg and Sara Medina. Zaugg is a graduate student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, where Constant teaches.
Iowa State Daily: ISU hosts Nobel Laureate Dan Shechtman for three weeks
Iowa State hosts Nobel Laureate Dan Shechtman for a three-week visit from September 24 to October 14, 2021.
Ames Tribune: Nobel Prize Laureate and MSE Distinguished Professor Dan Shechtman visiting Ames
Dan “Danny” Shechtman won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work discovering what are known as quasicrystals. He’s a distinguished professor in Iowa State’s materials science and engineering department and he’s worked with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory. Shechtman is visiting Ames for three weeks this fall.
MSE’s Trivedi is PI of project carried on NASA Space X23 rocket to ISS
Dr. Rohit Trivedi, a senior scientist at Ames Laboratory and a professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, is the Principal Investigator of a physical science investigation known as DEvice for the study of Critical Liquids and Crystallization – Directional Solidification Insert-Reflight (DSI-R), being carried on the Space X23 rocket to resupply the International Space Station.
In memory of David Wilder, former MSE department chair and alumnus
David Wilder, professor emeritus and former chair of the Iowa State University Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), passed away on Aug. 18, 2021, at the age of 92. He retired from Iowa State in May 1991 after a long and impactful career.
Honoring excellence: 2021 College of Engineering faculty and staff award winners, named faculty positions, and new patents
Recognizing College of Engineering faculty and staff award winners, new named faculty positions, and patents received.