The Department of Mechanical Engineering selected Fynn Reinbacher for a Teaching Excellence Award, while Robert (Gage) Hjort, Nick Hunter and Adam Thelen each won Research Excellence Awards.
Category: Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical engineering’s Eliot Winer recognized as Exemplary Faculty Mentor
Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor and Director of the Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC), Eliot Winer, has been named an Exemplary Faculty Mentor for going above and beyond expectations of Iowa State’s mentoring program.
Mechanical engineering alum’s good fortune inspired scholarship
Ron McClellen (mechanical engineering, ’61) started a scholarship in 1983 that has helped numerous mechanical engineering seniors pursue their dreams without the added debt. “I now feel that I can have a positive effect on Iowa State long after I am gone.”
SoilTech industry-university center to develop technology to measure, track soil health
The research groups, led by Iowa State’s Carmen Gomes and Jonathan Claussen, will be part of a new coast-to-coast, industry-university research hub called the Center for Soil Technologies, or SoilTech. Researchers from four universities just launched the center with a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
Mechanical engineering senior presents biothreat detection research at Iowa State Capitol
Anthony David, senior in mechanical engineering, will present his undergraduate research at the Research in the Capitol Undergraduate Research Symposium on March 6, 2023. His research, “Fabricating Biosensor Platforms for Real-Time Biothreat Detection,” is one of 20 research projects selected to represent Iowa State and one of six engineering projects to be selected.
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™.
Samantha Guido is building a one-of-a-kind engineering career piece by piece
When she was a kid, Samantha Guido’s big sister told her that engineering was like building with LEGO: a way to make new things from scratch.
Researchers team up to break down, upcycle low-quality, rejected plastic wastes
Iowa State’s Xianglan Bai is leading two, $2-million-plus projects that will study and develop new ways to break down waste plastics and convert them to useful materials. The U.S. Department of Energy is supporting both projects.
Unlocking cell communication using biotronics
The Department of Defense has recently awarded Cyclone Engineers Reza Montazami and Nicole Hashemi a project exploring a novel approach to investigate cells’ bioelectric activities.
Ringing to the tune of innovation, Iowa State team designs mini version of “Bells of Iowa State”
The sound of Iowa State pride has a nice ring to it in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ABE). Housed in the Sukup Atrium is a mini version of the ISU Campanile and the Stanton Memorial Carillon, created by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Music & Theatre and ABE.
Flow state: Jake Knuerr builds new MRI to visualize fluid mechanics
Jacob Knuerr is building his one-of-a-kind multiphase flow research skills and connecting with multiphase scholars from across the world as an undergraduate research assistant working with faculty mentor Ted Heindel, CoMFRE director, University Professor, and the Bergles Professor of Thermal Science in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Ashlyn Haack: College of Engineering student marshal
Ashlyn Haack is the fall 2022 student marshal, representing the College of Engineering at commencement. Haack majored in mechanical engineering.
Tessonnier-led research bridges gap for more efficient conversions of lignin for cleaner and greener chemicals
Effective conversion of lignin to increase the production of bio-oil and reduce a solid by-product called “char” has been addressed in Iowa State University engineering research and published in Energy & Environmental Science.
BioMADE project advances bioreactor fermentation processing
Cyclone Engineers are collaborating with Cargill and Genomatica to scale-up fermentation processes in bioreactors in a new $2.5 million project. The award was announced this week at the White House Summit on the National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative.
Greener hydrogen fuel production – with a solid carbon bonus
Cyclone Engineers are joining forces in a $4 million project to make hydrogen fuel production more environmentally sustainable.