Department News

AerE’s CyLaunch student program bound for Alabama competition – how you can help

The CyLaunch student rocketry team is headed to Huntsville, Alabama to represent Iowa State University in the NASA Student Launch Competition – and you can help them on their way. Read More

March 31, 2022

CCEE senior Hannah Jeffrey Receives Prestigious Dean’s Student Leadership Award

One of only three students in the College of Engineering, Iowa State University Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering senior Hannah Jeffrey received the College of Engineering Dean’s Student Leadership Award. This award is known for ‘recognizing outstanding leadership by undergraduate engineering students during their junior or senior years,’ and for students who ‘exhibit exemplary leadership in a broader arena than a single department or student organization.’ Read More

March 30, 2022

Studying innovations in steel building design

W. Samuel Easterling, James L. and Katherine S. Melsa Dean of Engineering, and Onur Avci, research assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering, are members of a research team investigating modular steel plate floor framing and diaphragm systems in steel building structures. The new project is funded by the Charles Pankow Foundation. Read More

March 29, 2022

Sarah Ryan named chair of the Iowa State University Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Sarah Ryan has been named the C.G. “Turk” and Joyce A. Therkildsen Department Chair of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Iowa State University. Ryan served as the recent interim department chair and her permanent appointment begins immediately. Read More

March 29, 2022

Testing Bridge Safety: CCEE’s Brent Phares Designs Framework to Enhance Bridge Load Rating Efficiency

With over 600,000 bridges in the United States, bridge safety and longevity is critical to safe transportation in America. By mandate, each bridge is evaluated at least every two years through a process called ‘bridge load rating,’ testing things like endurance and deterioration. But when considering the work put in to inspect every single bridge in the U.S. every two years, bridge load rating as we know it is very labor intensive and potentially costly. Read More

March 28, 2022

A foundation for a successful career

It was pretty much love at first sight for Larry Pithan and Pam Stoll, though even they admit it is difficult to pinpoint when exactly that “first sight” occurred. Read More

March 25, 2022

CCEE Announces 2022 Hall of Fame and Distinguished Alumni Inductees

This year, four alumni are be inducted into the Hall of Fame, and nine are being inducted as Distinguished Alumni. Read More

March 24, 2022

ME student continues his family’s now five-generation legacy at Iowa State

When mechanical engineering (ME) senior Nathan Stoufer walks across the commencement stage at the end of the semester, he will be following a legacy that his family established more than a century ago. Read More

March 24, 2022

Celebrating Women in CCEE: Lauren Bockholt

Celebrating Women's History Month this March, Iowa State University Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering is highlighting past, present and future women in engineering. Lauren Bockholt, a Senior Project Engineer at Ryan Companies, is an Iowa State Alumni graduating with her bachelor's in construction engineering (ConE) in 2017 and her master's in structural engineering in 2018. She has always been structurally minded and has been making architects' visions a reality in the field in her career. Read More

March 23, 2022

Former jarhead is a lifelong gearhead

Even in his free time, one Cyclone engineer is constantly approaching things with an engineering mindset. Read More

March 23, 2022

CBE’s AIChE student group to host regional conference at Iowa State in April

The chemical engineering spotlight will shine brightly on the Iowa State University campus April 8-10. That’s when the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) will host the Institute’s 2022 Mid-America Student Regional Conference. Read More

March 22, 2022

Engineers From Ghana Visit ISU for Collaborative Research

This semester, Iowa State University’s Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering professor Dirk Maier and doctorate student George Obeng-Akrofi hosted fellow members of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology’s Engineers Without Borders (EWB-KNUST) student organization in Kumasi, Ghana.  Read More

March 21, 2022

Like father, like son

As a teenager Ken Schoeneck, Jr. was intent on not following in his father’s footsteps by pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering (ME) from Iowa State University. However, after exploring his options he came to find that Iowa State was in fact the best fit for him. Read More

March 21, 2022

Celebrating Women in CCEE: Beena Ajmera

Celebrating Women’s History Month this March, Iowa State University Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering is highlighting past, present and future women in civil engineering. Beena Ajmera is an assistant professor in CCEE, and has made many monumental contributions to the civil engineering field. Read More

March 10, 2022

CCEE Provides Hands-On Undergraduate Research Opportunities

For many students, it can be difficult to gain real-world research experience while attending classes at the same time. Because it can be hard to balance learning and research, Director of Graduate Education (DOGE) and professor Omar Smadi in the Iowa State University Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering (CCEE) started a new, hands-on undergraduate research program in the department. This will be the second year of the program, after a year of many positive experiences from students. Read More

March 7, 2022