On Sept. 30 Iowa State University President Steven Leath installed Terry Wipf, professor and chair of the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering (CCEE), as the inaugural Greenwood Department Chair. Faculty, staff, and department friends attended the medallion ceremony held at Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium in Howe Hall. Don (BSCE’76) and Sharon (BSFamEnviro’75) Greenwood …Continue reading “Inaugural Iowa State University Greenwood Department Chair named”
The Mechanical Contractors Association (MCA) Iowa State University chapter recently received special national funding for student chapter scholarships and activities. The Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA) awarded Iowa State, also known as the Mechanical Specialty Contracting Student Chapter, the 2015 Chapter of Excellence Grant, which allocates $5,000 for student scholarships and $2,500 for chapter …Continue reading “Iowa State MCA earns second national Chapter of Excellence Grant”
The National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) Iowa State University chapter recently won the 2015 ELECTRI International Green Energy Challenge – a repeat accolade as Iowa State defended its 2014 national title. They also won NECA Student Chapter of the Year. Both honors were recognized at the NECA Convention held Oct. 2-6 in San Francisco. ELECTRI …Continue reading “Iowa State NECA a 2-time Green Energy Challenge Champion, earns Chapter of the Year”
Ashley Buss has dedicated herself to Iowa State University, both as a student and now as a tenure-track faculty member in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering (CCEE). Buss was hired Aug. 16 as an assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering. She earned her bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in civil …Continue reading “Ashley Buss: Iowa State civil engineering experience comes full circle”
One of Iowa State University’s largest construction projects had many Iowa State civil engineering and construction alumni and students at the helm. Students and graduates put their skills to practice on the Jack Trice Stadium South End Zone, a fast-paced, $37.4 million project that opened in August 2015. The Jack Trice Stadium South End Zone …Continue reading “How Iowa State civil, construction engineering alumni built the Jack Trice Stadium South End Zone”
Diana Rodriguez, incoming senior at Hoover High School in Des Moines, Iowa, took advantage of an opportunity that most high school students don’t experience – develop research at Iowa State University. Throughout summer 2015, Chris Rehmann, associate professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering at Iowa State, and Lauren Schwab, Iowa State master’s student in …Continue reading “Iowa State researchers mentor high school student in river contaminant flow study”
Many Iowa State University students, faculty researchers, and engineers at the Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT) have partnered to develop traffic solutions for Iowa’s highways. Neal Hawkins, director of the Center for Transportation Research and Education (CTRE) and adjunct lecturer of civil, construction and environmental engineering at Iowa State, and Mike Jackson, state traffic …Continue reading “Iowa State Traffic Operations Lab partners civil engineering, Institute for Transportation, Iowa DOT”
More than 100 engineers, professors, and project administrators from throughout Iowa, the U.S., and the world gathered at Iowa State University June 2-3, 2015, for the inaugural Conference on Autonomous and Robotic Construction of Infrastructure (CARCI). Construction technology experts discussed knowledge and practice in advancing autonomous and robotic-guided equipment that improves construction productivity, quality, reliability and …Continue reading “Iowa State hosts inaugural conference on autonomous, robotic construction”
Thirty-nine students, divided into seven teams, compile power drills, load centers, pull wire, screws, circuit breakers, and light bulbs to assemble them onto 2-by-4-foot plywood boards. They build scaled-down building electrical systems – an exciting project in CON E 353, the electrical systems for building course in Iowa State University’s construction engineering program. Jenny Baker, …Continue reading “Iowa State students apply construction engineering theory to electrical boards”
Materials science and engineering professor receives Regents Award for Faculty Excellence and Margaret Ellen White Graduate Faculty Award. Mufit Akinc was recently recognized by his peers and graduate students with two prominent awards. During Iowa State’s University Awards Ceremony held on September 22, 2014, Akinc received the Regents Award for Faculty Excellence that is given …Continue reading “Mufit Akinc receives two faculty awards”
Mechanical engineering alumna awarded Tau Beta Pi Laureate award Marching band, Dance Marathon, Tau Beta Pi and study abroad were just a few things Lisa Garrett participated in during her undergraduate career at Iowa State. Because of her diverse interests and excelling beyond engineering, Tau Beta Pi named her a Laureate. In October, Garrett will …Continue reading “Lisa Garrett: An engineer with diverse interests”
The Iowa State University Tornado Simulator kicked up a thick and slowly spinning funnel cloud over a model of a small town, overwhelming the miniature streets, buildings and homes. Partha Sarkar turned from the laboratory vortex and announced, “That’s an EF3.” Most tornadoes (about 90 percent of them) are EF3 or less in intensity. And …Continue reading “Iowa State engineers to simulate and model tornado winds and their effects on buildings”
Iowa State engineering alumnus Bob Walkup will tell you, more than once, what he thinks about engineering and engineers. “Engineers can do anything. It’s that simple,” he says. “That was my father’s motto, and it became mine. I truly believe it.” Walkup’s father, Joseph Walkup, was the general engineering department head at Iowa State University …Continue reading “Walkup: “an engineer can do anything””
It was not an engineering challenge for mere mortals. It was for no less a superhero than Fluoride Man, defender of good dental hygiene, that Iowa State engineering students Ryan Betters and Ryan Francois designed, built and flew the glider “Bristle Buster F2” in Red Bull Flugtag, a human-powered flight competition held in Singapore Oct. …Continue reading “Iowa State students launch “Bristle Buster F2” glider in flight contest”
Hyung Seok “David” Jeong, who joined the College of Engineering as associate professor in CCEE in August, believes construction engineering is facing a huge leap forward in the 21st century as the industry learns to take advantage of innovations in information technology. “The rapid IT advancements in data collection methods, digital data storage technologies, and …Continue reading “Jeong takes construction industry forward with IT advances”
