- W. Samuel Easterling reappointed as the James L. and Katherine S. Melsa Dean of Engineering March 28, 2024
Easterling stabilized undergraduate enrollment, created new degree programs, hired 60 new faculty, raised nearly $150 million in private and corporate donations, and secured record research funding in his first five-year term.
- Making strides in grain preservation from 6,000 miles away March 27, 2024
ABE 4690 is getting hands-on experience recording data and taking steps to solve real-time issues affecting international populations.
- Lin Zhou explores the atomic realm at the Sensitive Instrument Facility March 26, 2024
The Sensitive Instrument Facility (SIF), a part of Ames National Laboratory, boasts two-feet thick concrete floors with built-in vibration-dampening layers, aluminum-plate lined bays, and fiberglass reinforced concrete for electro-magnetic isolation and vibration-free heating and ventilation. These features help ensure that state-of-the-art instrumentation housed in the SIF achieves the most accurate results.
- Hongwei Zhang awarded Willard and Leitha Richardson Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering March 26, 2024
Zhang is a leader in the research of wireless networks. He is the director of the Center for Wireless, Communities and Innovation (WiCI) as well as the principal investigator for ARA, a first-of-its-kind wireless living lab to connect rural communities and industries.
- A new device to address critical climate change soil impacts. March 22, 2024
To combat the monetary barrier of a shear and temperature testing device, Emami Ahari decided to create one.
- Four graduate students in aerospace engineering enjoy teaching and research honors March 22, 2024
Teaching and research expertise in the fall semester of 2023 has been recognized for four Department of Aerospace Engineering graduate students.
- From uncertain to passionate, Erik DeMeyere found his path in materials engineering March 22, 2024
“I was really struggling with what path I wanted to take. I enjoyed physics and chemistry in high school but knew I didn’t want to be a chemist or physicist,” DeMeyere said. “And then I saw materials engineering listed, which, at the time, I didn’t even know existed. After doing some research, I realized I had been interested in materials science all along.”
- Sid Pathak receives NSF CAREER award for studying pseudomorphic phases in multilayered nano-laminates March 21, 2024
Department of Materials Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Sid Pathak has been selected for a 2024 National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award for his project, “Towards a Fundamental Understanding of Interface Strain-Driven Pseudomorphic Phase Transformations in Multilayered Nanocomposites.”
- Meng Lu member of team that won 2024 Bailey Award to support exploration into antimicrobial resistance March 20, 2024
Iowa State University’s 2024 Bailey Research Career Development award has been granted to a team of Cyclone scholars with plans to address increasing rates of antimicrobial resistance by transforming predatory viruses into an antibiotic substitute.
- Team chemistry makes Concrete Canoe built to last March 18, 2024
Violet Stayner and Zachary Glowczynski, the two co-captains, take the lead in ensuring that the team meets each deadline. They make time for fun, too, “it’s a designated time to get to know each other and bond beyond the canoe,” said Stayner.
- Wenzhen Li, Jean-Philippe Tessonnier become Royal Society of Chemistry Fellows March 11, 2024
Wenzhen Li and Jean-Philippe Tessonnier have been named Fellows in the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Engineering quality for healthier hearts March 5, 2024
Emma Wolf, industrial engineering, had no idea when she arrived at Iowa State University as an undeclared engineering major she would end up landing a job in quality control for medical devices.
- Graduate program creates community and implementable pollution solutions March 5, 2024
“Tile drainage, nitrate and phosphorus levels, all the soil stuff we manage here, it’s exciting!” said Gabrielle Myers-Bailey, a graduate student in agricultural and biosystems engineering “All our work as ag engineers leads to better water quality and lower soil impacts.”
- “Spirit of innovation” helps lift Jean-Philippe Tessonnier to National Academy of Inventors March 1, 2024
Jean-Philippe Tessonnier, Richard C. Seagrave Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been named a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors.
- Easterling receives American Institute of Steel Construction Special Achievement Award February 28, 2024
W. Samuel Easterling, James L. and Katherine S. Melsa Dean of Engineering at Iowa State University, has received a 2024 American Institute of Steel Construction Special Achievement Award. The award recognizes Easterling for steel diaphragm research innovations that drove changes to standards governing the use of metal deck diaphragms in steel structures
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