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.
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David Eisenmann is bringing Ground Penetrating Radar to agriculture at the CNDE
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.
Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship for Chowdhury’s AI-based protein design research
Ratul Chowdhury was recently named a Black and Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellow in Engineering.
“Launchpad to Tomorrow” K-12 STEM program gets go-ahead with Extension and Outreach funding
A new program to spur interest in space and aerospace for K-12 students in Iowa will be funded by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.
Welcoming Philip Cox, new professor of practice in agricultural and biosystems engineering
Mechanical engineering undergraduate and graduate program alumnus and long-time John Deere teammate Philip Cox will be leading Capstone!
Quad Cities Manufacturing Institute launched to serve defense, manufacturing sectors
“Iowa State University is proud to be part of this groundbreaking partnership to establish the Quad Cities Manufacturing Institute,” said Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen. “This initiative will bring to bear our strengths as a land-grant university…”
Trusting the robot in the workplace
Jundi Liu, assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, graduate student Mobina Amrollahi, and undergraduate research assistant Rindirisia Wangira are actively conducting AGV/human trust laboratory studies using a virtual reality apparatus for human-robot interaction research.
Modern manufacturing is seeing rapid changes in the workplace. One change is integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated technologies like Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) into operational processes.
Three in aerospace engineering head into fall semester with faculty promotions
Three Department of Aerospace Engineering faculty members have received advancements that recently became effective.
Teaching and research recognition for aerospace engineering graduate students
Four graduate students from the Department of Aerospace Engineering have received the Teaching Excellence (TEX) and Research Excellence (REX) Awards for spring semester 2024.
Aerospace engineering group takes first place in national student paper competition
A group of Department of Aerospace Engineering graduate researchers and others has received first place in an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics paper competition.
Qi An and team develop general, high-speed technology to model, understand catalytic reactions
A research team led by Qi An, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at Iowa State University, has developed artificial intelligence technology that could find ways to improve researchers’ understanding of the chemical reactions involved in ammonia production and other complex chemical reactions.
Allie (Harris) Millikan: From Cyclone Nation to Magic Kingdom
For Allie (Harris) Millikan (B.S. ’19 industrial engineering, concurrent MBA ’19), the industrial engineering (IE) road led from Cyclone Nation to Magic Kingdom.
“I have such incredible memories from our family Disney trips growing up. I couldn’t imagine a more magical place to work,” she says.
ABE Alum Spotlight: Emily DeJesu – conserving water, starting at ISU
Emily DeJesu graduated from Iowa State University in 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in Biological Systems Engineering (BSE). DeJesu grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and had a connection to Iowa State through her dad, with Iowa State being her dad’s alma mater. She always had a passion for the environment, math, and science which made BSE at ISU an easy educational choice.
“An incredible opportunity:” Student-built cube satellite will be space-bound in August 3 launch
CySAT-1, a student-built cube satellite, is set to launch from the Kennedy Space Center on a trip to the International Space Station August 3.
Zhaoyu Wang and collaborators use data to manage grid transformers, boosting reliability to homes, farms
The researchers and partners will work together to develop a data-driven system that monitors the loads on distribution transformers and gives utilities real-time awareness of which boxes should be checked and potentially upgraded or replaced.