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Associate Professor Alice Alipour is leading a transdisciplinary team for power infrastructure recovery in natural disasters. After the 2020 derecho, she started working directly with communities and local power plants to address the challenge of preparation and prevention of failure in the future.
The Iowa Cyber Hub is bringing Iowa high school students to the Iowa State University campus for a Youth Cyber Summit. They’ll meet, learn about cybersecurity, and maybe do some “adversarial thinking.” It’s part of a Cybersecurity Ambassador Program established a year ago to train and post “a legion of cyber guardians” around the state to help improve hometown cybersecurity for Iowans.
Three Cyclone Engineering teams are working to bridge the gap between the lab and the large-scale use of bioreactors to manufacture bio-based products.
Sougata Roy and his DREAM-TEAM collaborators are studying 3D printing as an alternative way to process tungsten for use as shields and other components in nuclear reactors. The project is supported by a new, $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.
Research by Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering and Murray Harpole Chair in Engineering Valery Levitas looks at plastic strain-induced phase transformations in silicon. It has seen publication in Nature Communications.
Alumnus Sehat Sutardja (’83 elect engr), a pioneer in semiconductors and co-founder of Marvell Technology, has died.
Hui Hu, Martin C. Jischke Professor in Aerospace Engineering, has been named an Anson Marston Distinguished Professor, one of Iowa State’s highest honors for faculty members.
Michael Dorneich, Joseph Walkup Professor of Engineering and professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering has been named Morrill Professor.
The Morrill Professorship is a university award recognizing faculty members for their national and international reputation of demonstrated outstanding success in teaching and learning in undergraduate, graduate and/or extension/outreach programs.
Bion Pierson, a noted aerospace engineering researcher and member of the Department of Aerospace Engineering faculty for 43 years, has passed away.
The Department of Construction, Civil and Environmental Engineering (CCEE) is excited to welcome Tricia Snyder to the department as a new advisor.
The researchers will analyze multiple years of real outage data from Ames, Dayton and Indianapolis to see how often there are problems and how long it takes to recover from them.
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering faculty member Nigel Reuel has received the 2024 American Chemical Society BIOT Young Investigator Award.
Ashraf Bastawros has been named recipient of the prestigious 2024 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Electronic and Photonic Packaging Division (EPPD) Excellence in Mechanics Award.
Materials Science and Engineering Assistant Teaching Professor David Eisenmann has several projects at the CNDE, including innovating Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) to help the precision agriculture industry. He has been using GPR for over a decade, and has now turned his attention to South America, where he is helping crop producers track their planting rate using GPR.
Ratul Chowdhury was recently named a Black and Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellow in Engineering.
