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Montezuma microgrids

Cyclone Engineers selected to lead $12-million Dept. of Energy project to build rural Iowa’s first ‘microgrid’.

  • A collage of spring 2026 Outstanding Seniors portraits. From top left: Emma Miller, Eagan Kirk, Kai Li-Caldwell, Hope Rizzo, Aaron Schlueter, Nate Pinto, Duy Bui, Samuel Schroeder, Benjamin Kammler, Mingeun Park, Shanna Kleve, Ike Jones, Raina Pfeifer.

    Outstanding Cyclone Engineering graduates and future engineering leaders

    The Iowa State University College of Engineering is proud to present the spring 2026 outstanding seniors.

  • partha sarkar in tornado simulator

    Four-year, $14 million grant to design a national testing facility to simulate tornadoes, downbursts and gusts

    Cyclone Engineers are leading a $14-million, National Science Foundation-funded project to design and plan a National Testing Facility for Enhancing Wind Resiliency of Infrastructure in Tornado-Downburst-Gust Front Events, or NEWRITE.

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Graduate student Araz Hasheminezhad is 3D printing geosynthetics to strengthen Iowa’s rural transportation infrastructure. Read the full story.

Masha Lebedeva realized – “Materials engineering is exactly what I was looking for. I just didn’t know it was there.” Read the full story.

Erick Shoesmith, junior in mechanical engineering, is on Iowa State’s Formula SAE team, where he and his teammates use their engineering skills to build and race cars. Read the full story.

Michelle Soupir (pictured left), professor of agricultural and biosystems engineerining, research programs focus on water quality solutions, building sustainable water systems, and understanding the impacts of agricultural practices.

Iowa State University engineers are working on solutions for cost-effective, quick, chemical recycling for plastics and textiles. Read the full story.

For Danelda Allen (IE ’88), being assigned construction manager of the Therkildsen Industrial Engineering Building project on campus is a full-circle engineering moment. Read the full story.

Ming-Chen Hsu, associate professor of mechanical engineering specializing in fluid-structure interaction, is using sophisticated computational techniques to simulate how artificial replacement heart valves interact with blood flow. Currently, bioprosthetic heart valves have a limited lifespan of about 10 years, so additional surgical intervention is needed once they wear out. Hsu’s work will lead to more efficient and durable valve designs, reducing the need for patients to undergo repeat open-heart surgeries.