Jeramy Ashlock, assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering at Iowa State University, has just received one of the nation’s top research awards for early career faculty. The National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) awarded Ashlock $400,000 over five years to develop a research program for integrated computational and physical …Continue reading “Ashlock earns Iowa State civil engineering’s first NSF CAREER award”
Dr. Craig Denny (BSCE’71, MSCE’73) and his wife, Terry (BSElemEd’72), recently donated $100,000 to the Shawnee Mission School District (Shawnee Mission, Kan.) and $100,000 to the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at Iowa State University to improve science, technology, engineering and math career opportunities for K-12 students and female college students, respectively. At …Continue reading “Craig and Terry Denny establish K-12, civil engineering STEM funds”
Scientific explanation just got a whole lot funnier. Five years in the making, a book called “FORE and the Future of Practically Everything” was officially released by Moonshine Cove Publishing on Nov. 15, 2013. The author is Anson Marston Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard Handy. “FORE and the Future of Practically Everything” uses a scientific theme, …Continue reading “Iowa State professor emeritus publishes ‘FORE and the Future of Practically Everything’”
The same technologies that Iowa State University’s David J. White is developing to build better roads and foundations could also be used to build better river levees. White, the Waldo W. Wegner Associate Professor in Civil Engineering, leads the crew working with Iowa State’s Geotechnical Mobile Lab. In six years of operation, the lab has …Continue reading “Intelligent construction practices developed for roads also apply to levee construction”
