A tradition that began in 1965, Engineers Week (E-Week) is a staple event within the College of Engineering, continuing to grow each year. E-Week is a student
organization that serves to celebrate the engineering field, the College of Engineering and its students, faculty, and staff. E-Week hopes to provide a way for students to build relationships with other students, faculty and alumni as well as network and increase professional development.
In her role as a lecturer at Iowa State, Aliye Karabulut-Ilgu, holds a unique position within the civil, construction, and environmental engineering department. Instead of teaching classes to students, she works directly with faculty members to develop online and hybrid courses.
Courtney Towles, Christian Miller, and Chloe McPherson are leading the way for future black students in STEM. To learn more about each student, click the photo.
Born in New York City, Courtney Towles, felt right at home with Iowa State University. Towles discovered her love for engineering at a young age and knew that being an engineer was the right path for her.
Civil engineering graduate student focuses on developing safer roadways for safer travel
The U.S. Department of Transportation is supporting establishment of a Midwest Transportation Center based at Iowa State University with a two-year grant of $2,592,500. The center will focus its research on data-driven performance measures of transportation infrastructure, traffic safety and project construction, said Shauna Hallmark, the leader of the grant, the interim director of Iowa …Continue reading “U.S. DOT awards Iowa State $2.6 million to establish Midwest Transportation Center”
Many people can trace their choice of career to a significant event in their youth. For Jiehua Jay Shen, a new associate professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, it was the Great Tangshan Earthquake in 1976. The 7.8 magnitude quake that hit China is considered the most deadly of the 20th …Continue reading “Jiehua Shen: engineering that saves lives”
Johannes (Hans) van Leeuwen, Vlasta Klima Balloun Professor of Engineering, and professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering and agricultural and biosystems engineering, hopes to develop a solution to world hunger. Fungi from ethanol byproducts takes about two days to grow, a process van Leeuwen calls “lightning-speed” farming. The fungi is high in protein, essential …Continue reading “ISU professor’s ethanol byproduct fungi could feed the world”
Calling himself a little unorganized in high school, Cliff Plymesser, a 2005 construction engineering alumnus, didn’t spend much time planning for college. He grew up with a love for construction and an interest in engineering, so he decided to combine the two at Iowa State—the only place he applied—and found his career. Plymesser took a …Continue reading “Teaching what he knows: Cliff Plymesser brings career to classroom”
Grant Schmitz, eyes inches from a 6.5-by-12-foot panel of ultra-high performance concrete, studied the smooth surface for tiny cracks. He and other research engineers carefully marked every one with black markers. Schmitz, an Iowa State graduate student of civil, construction and environmental engineering, and Sri Sritharan, Iowa State’s Wilson Engineering Professor and leader of the ’s College …Continue reading “Iowa State engineers design, test taller, high-strength concrete towers for wind turbines”
Initial studies show a fungus grown in the leftovers of ethanol production could be a good energy feed for pigs and chickens. In separate feeding trials, nursery pigs and chickens have eaten high-protein fungi that Hans van Leeuwen and other Iowa State University researchers have produced in a pilot plant that converts ethanol leftovers into …Continue reading “Iowa State researchers feed pigs, chickens high-protein fungus grown on ethanol leftovers”
Kejin Wang, professor of civil, construction, and environmental engineering, and her two graduate assistants, Gilson Lomboy and Xuhao Wang, recently received $17,400 from Iowa State’s Computation Advisory Committee (CAC) to support the project “Transforming traditional lab instruction to blended instruction through computer-mediated activities.” CAC awards fund programs designed to benefit the general instructional program and …Continue reading “CCEE professor receives CAC funding”
At the College of Engineering, offering students real-world experience is a top priority. In addition to encouraging the over 80 percent of students who complete an internship or co-op, the college requires students to take Capstone Design, providing excellent hands-on opportunities that prepare them to work in industry. Capstone Design was created to bring together …Continue reading “Real-world experience from Capstone Design”
Design-build project management has been an important part of the life of Douglas D. Gransberg, Iowa State professor in civil, construction, and environmental engineering (CCEE). Emerging in the market as Gransberg was beginning his career as an engineer, design-build’s nontraditional way of delivering construction projects has given him many opportunities in industry, academia, and research. …Continue reading “Gransberg becomes third faculty member to receive Distinguished Design-Build Leadership Award”
Iowa State University will soon become the first institution to award students PhD degrees in Wind Energy Science, Engineering, and Policy (WESEP) thanks to a $3.1 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program. James McCalley, Murray J. and Ruth M. Harpole Professor in Electrical Engineering, …Continue reading “Iowa State receives multi-million dollar grant to develop new PhD program in Wind Energy Science, Engineering, and Policy”
