Below is an excerpt from a March 11, 2014, Green Car Congress article: A study based on a spatial and longitudinal travel dataset by a team from Lamar University, Iowa State University (Assistant Professor Jing Dong) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory found that whether plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) have lower energy costs than conventional gasoline vehicles …Continue reading “Iowa State’s Jing Dong publishes study on plug-in electric vehicles”
As a high school student in Racine County, Wis., she used to move her friends’ soda bottles from the trash to a recycling bin, so Alyson Straube knows how to ‘walk the walk.’ The chemical engineering junior thinks the Government of the Student Body’s director of sustainability post is a great fit for her interests. …Continue reading “Chemical engineering student helps implement trial of food/beverage container recycling at library”
The following is an excerpt from “Students, Start-Ups, and Biorenewability,” written by Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) Chicago writer Mitch Jacoby in the Oct. 28, 2013, edition of Chemical & Engineering News. Shivani Garg had never planned on launching a biotech start-up company, at least not until recently. Like other biochemistry graduate students, she spent her …Continue reading “Professor Brent Shanks, CBiRC feature biotech startups in Chemical & Engineering News”
“We are all excited that it’s finally here, to get to go to D.C., network with contractors, and present our project that we have all worked very hard on,” said Iowa State University construction engineering senior Alex Buscher just days before the 2013 ELECTRI International Green Energy Challenge. Buscher led a team of five civil …Continue reading “Iowa State NECA places in top 3 at national green energy challenge”
For the second year in a row, civil, construction and environmental engineering (CCEE) students of the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) Iowa State chapter placed first in the written portion of the annual ELECTRI International Foundation Green Energy Challenge. The 2013 Green Energy Challenge summons U.S. collegiate teams, comprised of members of NECA student chapters, …Continue reading “Iowa State students write NECA’s top green energy plan, again”
IMSE faculty members Matt Frank, John Jackman, and Frank Peters were featured in an article in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Mechanical Engineering Magazine about wind energy and the Wind Energy Manufacturing Laboratory (WEML) at Iowa State. For ASME members: read the Mechanical Engineering Magazine article Visit ASME
Dr. Richard LeSar, MSE Professor, had an article featured in the April 2012 MRS Bulletin Special Issue. The article, entitled “Teaching Sustainable Development in Materials Science and Engineering,” discusses three materials sustainability programs designed by the authors that are being implemented in the U.S. and the different approaches each program takes. The hope for these …Continue reading “Professor Richard LeSar – Article Featured in MRS Bulletin”
Erin MacDonald, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State and affiliated researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy Ames Laboratory, recently received the ASME Design Automation Young Investigator Award. The award recognizes an outstanding young investigator who is making noteworthy contributions in the area of design automation, including research in design representation, design optimization, …Continue reading “MacDonald receives ASME young investigator award”
Interdisciplinary teams working on the Dean’s Research Initiatives (DRIs) presented their progress to date in an open forum held May 15. The DRIs, established by the College of Engineering in 2011, awarded $500,000 to three teams to help them pursue larger funding opportunities. Creating a carbon-negative economy The Initiative for a Carbon Negative Economy …Continue reading “Open forum highlights progress on Dean’s Research Initiatives”
Casey Fangmann’s long-standing passion for environmental responsibility has guided him through much of his college career. That passion inspired him to develop a recycling program on campus and to major in industrial engineering with a focus on sustainability. It also helped him become a 2012 Udall Scholar. The Udall Scholar program, established by the U.S. …Continue reading “Industrial engineering student named 2012 Udall Scholar”
At this year’s Sustainapalooza, the College of Engineering was recognized for the best reduction of energy use since 2008. Marston hall, which houses the college’s administrative offices and several classrooms, showed a cumulative decrease in British thermal unit (Btu) consumption of 61.84 percent over the three-year period. In 2008, Marston used 14,102,678,880 Btus of energy …Continue reading “Engineering receives Building Efficiency Award”
Iowa State’s new sustainability minor is only a few months old. But a hundred students are enrolled in one of the minor’s core courses this semester. In a recent show of hands, some three-fourths of the students in the class indicated their intent to minor in sustainability. The idea for the minor grew out of …Continue reading “Sustainability minor has broad-based appeal”
Dionysios Aliprantis took up an imaginary hammer and chisel and pounded away at the air. “Think of the ancient Greeks and their sculptures,” said the Iowa State University assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. Now apply the idea of a sculptor precisely chipping away at stone to the electric motors that run our machines and …Continue reading “Aliprantis wants to ‘sculpt’ more powerful electric motors and generators”
A year into a new role as an assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, Guiping Hu enjoys the added opportunities to help students pursue their own studies, not to mention exploring an unexpected realm of interdisciplinary collaboration. Hu, who was promoted from lecturer in January 2010, says her previous experiences teaching undergraduate courses …Continue reading “Assistant professor delves into the business of bioenergy”
A year into a new role as an assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, Guiping Hu enjoys the added opportunities to help students pursue their own studies, not to mention exploring an unexpected realm of interdisciplinary collaboration. By training, Hu is an industrial engineer with a focus on operations research, supply chain management, …Continue reading “Assistant professor delves into the business of bioenergy”
