Two researchers with engineering ties have received a 2010 R&D 100 Award for developing osgBullet, a software package that creates 3-D, real-time computer simulations that can help engineers design complex systems ranging from next-generation power plants to highly efficient cars and tomorrow’s video games. Mark Bryden, program director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory’s …Continue reading “Iowa State, Ames Laboratory’s Bryden and McCorkle win R&D 100 Award”
The College of Engineering at Iowa State University has announced that David Jiles will serve as the Palmer Department Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECpE). Jiles, director of the Wolfson Centre for Magnetics and professor of magnetics at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom, is making his return to Iowa State. He was named …Continue reading “Jiles returns to Iowa State to lead electrical and computer engineering”
Monica Lamm, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering and associate scientist at Ames Laboratory, is part of a team at Iowa State University that is developing computational chemistry at the petascale. The team is preparing for the most powerful supercomputer in the world, Blue Waters, which is expected to come online in 2011. Iowa …Continue reading “Iowa State, Ames Lab researchers preparing for Blue Waters supercomputer”
It’s not a ’70s rock band reunion, but a critical message to Congress from Iowa State’s Karl Gschneidner
AMES, Iowa – Engineers Hans van Leeuwen and Mark Bryden are among researchers at Iowa State University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory who have won two 2009 R&D 100 Awards, the editors of R&D Magazine announced Monday. The awards, presented annually since 1963, salute the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into …Continue reading “Iowa State University, Ames Laboratory researchers win R&D 100 Awards”
