• Faculty Professional Development Assignment leads to patent for IMSE prof

    The Faculty Professional Development Assignment (FPDA) taken by one industrial engineering professor has paid off in the form of a patent. Matt Frank, the John B. Slater Professor of Sustainable Design & Manufacturing, and a team of engineers from Deere and Company were recently issued U.S. Patent 11,364,536 B1 for the “layered slab manufacturing system and method” Read More

  • Materials science and engineering assistant professor Shan Jiang and industrial and manufacturing systems engineering assistant professor Hantang Qin pose inside a laboratory on the Iowa State University campus. A 3D printer can be seen in the background of the shot.
    Engineers study advanced manufacturing methods in zero-gravity

    A team of engineering researchers at Iowa State University is studying the most effective ways for manufacturing materials in outer space, with the hope that astronauts can use these methods while on space missions. Read More