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AMES, Iowa – Fuyuan Jing reached for the top shelf of his university cubicle and pulled down a box of business cards. He picked out a slick and glossy card, the company logo printed in bright blue, yellow, orange, red and green. That card identified Jing as president of VariFAS Biorenewables LLC. Jing said his …Continue reading “Center for Biorenewable Chemicals helps Iowa State researchers launch startup companies”
Floating World, a public art piece, was installed in early July in the Biorenewables Complex on the west side of campus. The piece was created by artist Ralph Helmick who worked with a committee of faculty and staff from the agricultural and biosystems engineering department. The piece is located in the Sukup Hall and Atrium …Continue reading “Floating World Installation in Biorenewables Complex”
Iowa State University’s construction engineering program has partnered engineering students, a multimedia expert, and an alumnus to pilot hybrid learning course development. From 2012 to 2014, W. A. Klinger Teaching Professor Charles Jahren and his team of engineering students and multimedia experts developed a hybrid learning model that efficiently combines online and in-classroom course content. …Continue reading “Iowa State partners engineering with arts to develop hybrid courses”
Recent graduates in electrical engineering Josh Grindeland and John Etherington, and graduates in materials engineering Tommy Geske and Trent Borman proved that it is possible to extract electrical energy from waste heat at the ECpE Senior Design Demonstration on May 30. The team had spent nine months prior designing and developing a device that uses …Continue reading “ECpE, MSE students harness energy from liquid crystals”
The 23rd Annual Iowa Motion Picture Association Awards were held Saturday, March 29 at the historic Capitol Theater in Burlington. In a nutshell, this red carpet event is Iowa’s own version of the Oscars! We are pleased to announce that Water Rocks! was honored with 15 IMPA awards, in a variety of categories related to both programming and …Continue reading “Water Rocks! recognized by Iowa Motion Picture Association”
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) passed in 2011, but its rules won’t be in place until mid-2015. Ostensibly, FSMA offered a paradigm shift in the food safety sector, preventing contamination instead of only responding to it. Part of the legislation applies to handling animal feed. The Food and Drug Administration has a proposed rule …Continue reading “Hurburgh comments on new food safety legislation”
Amazon’s announcement on Saturday that it is working to have drone deliver packages is just part of the future of drones. It’s a future that is taking shape at Iowa State University where drones are being tested. The CyDrone project is working in the lab and in the field to figure out how to create …Continue reading “M:2:I, ISU students helping shape future of drones”
Hamza Janjua pursues a head-start to his civil engineering career. While many earn the degree before working professionally, Janjua works to be one step ahead. The civil engineering senior also is a licensed general contractor in the state of Iowa. His new business, SSB Construction, LLC, thrives in Ames with his first project – a …Continue reading “Iowa State civil engineering senior becomes a contractor”
Integrated crop and livestock systems utilize manure as an organic source of fertilizer, but within this manure are bacteria that may contaminate water bodies if transported off the field by rain. Iowa State University professor Michelle Soupir describes her field and lab studies of bacterial movement from manure to soil to water, as well as …Continue reading “Soupir featured in Leopold Center ‘On the Ground’ video”
On May 5, 2011, the Iowa Space Grant Consortium awarded Iowa State University’s Asteroid Deflection Research Center (ADRC) with a new base program. Under the direction of Dr. Bong Wie, the ADRC has been conducting research in the field of asteroid deflection since 2008. Dr. Wie’s proposal for the new base program competition was titled “Space Technology …Continue reading “A new base program of the Iowa Space Grant Consortium awarded to the Asteroid Deflection Research Center”
Laura Christianson, a graduate student in Iowa State’s agricultural and biosystems engineering program, is among 14 engineers who were selected as one of this year’s New Faces of Engineering by the National Engineers Week Foundation. She studies how to mitigate water pollution through natural process and was nominated for the award by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.
One team of Iowa State University mechanical engineering students has designed a simple device to sort coffee beans. Another team designed a low‐cost prosthesis. And another has designed a new kind of grain bin. Their assignment in Mechanical Engineering 270 (Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Design) was to design something to create sustainable economic activity for …Continue reading “ME Design Expo”
