Mechanical Engineering

Emily Johnson: From Cyclone Engineering Ph.D. to Notre Dame faculty
Emily Johnson completed her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and wind energy science, engineering, and policy this summer. This fall, she started at… Read More

August 27, 2021
ME researchers take second place in national Hackathon competition
A mechanical engineering (ME) team of two graduate students and a postdoctoral researcher took second place at the national Hackathon competition hosted earlier this… Read More

August 26, 2021
$20 million federal grant launches AI institute for better crops, agricultural production
The researchers behind a new artificial intelligence institute say their work can accelerate the productivity and sustainability of agriculture. The National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture are supporting the researchers’ idea with a five-year, $20 million grant to establish an AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture based at Iowa State University. Read More

July 29, 2021
Meet the engineer behind MasterGrass

July 6, 2021
Serving his country by teaching armed service members
Lt. Ben McFarland Ben McFarland was inspired by the good teachers he had as a student at Iowa State University and now he’s looking… Read More

June 28, 2021
Meet the engineers behind City City Bang Bang

June 25, 2021
Meet the engineer behind Instrument Lights

June 24, 2021
Iowa State University’s solar car team unveils its newest car
A shot of the Team PrISUm’s newest solar car model: Eliana. The team unveiled their new car during an event at the Student Innovation… Read More

June 18, 2021
Engineers aim to improve oil extraction using acoustic sound waves
Mechanical engineering researchers at Iowa State University are studying ways they can use acoustic sound waves to improve the efficiency of extracting oil from rocks. Read More

June 10, 2021
NIFA Invests $7M in Digital Agriculture Technologies

June 3, 2021
ME alum Jocelyn Jackson to serve as judge for Microsoft’s Imagine Cup World Championship

May 13, 2021
Cyclone Engineering staff honored for learning community contributions
College of Engineering staff were named winners of 2021 Iowa State University Learning Communities achievement awards and recognized for years of service. Patrick Determan,… Read More

May 11, 2021
College of Engineering Graduation Celebration moving to Hilton

May 7, 2021
Vision for ultra-precision agriculture includes machine-learning enabled sensing, modeling, robots tending crops
Rather than tending fields by the hundreds of acres, farmers could one day tend each and every plant with the help of machine learning, robots and other technologies. A five-year, $7 million grant from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture will help researchers develop such a cyber-physical system. The project is led by Soumik Sarkar, the Walter W. Wilson Faculty Fellow in Engineering and an associate professor of mechanical engineering. Read More

April 29, 2021
New cyber-physical systems minor leverages industry ties to enhance student futures
A first-of-its-kind curriculum in Iowa will soon be available to students in Iowa State University’s College of Engineering – and will help prepare them for… Read More

April 21, 2021