When Brian Lapcewich enrolled at Iowa State in 2005 as an undeclared engineering major, he didn’t know his passion for engineering would lead him to a career where an ordinary day at the office would mean standing atop an 80-meter high wind turbine. As a junior in high school, Lapcewich toured the campus and fell …Continue reading “Wind energy powers up alumnus’ career”
Hui Hu pulled a model wind turbine from the top of an office filing cabinet. The turbine tower was just 10 inches high. Its three blades were 10 inches in diameter. It was a perfect 1:320 scale reproduction of the 80-meter diameter wind turbines spinning across Iowa, the country’s second-ranked state in installed wind power capacity. That …Continue reading “Iowa State engineers study how hills, nearby turbines affect wind energy production”
When you sit down with the Iowa State faculty members who have gathered under the College of Engineering’s Wind Energy Initiative (WEI), you soon realize the group has developed a multifaceted, yet well constructed, plan to contribute to expanding the viability of wind energy in the US energy portfolio. As they talk about their role …Continue reading “An end-to-end approach to advancing wind energy”
A laser in Iowa State University’s Wind Energy Manufacturing Laboratory scanned layer after layer of the flexible fiberglass fabric used to make wind turbine blades. A computer took the laser readings and calculated how dozens of the layers would fit and flow over the curves of a mold used to manufacture a blade. And if there was …Continue reading “Wind Energy Manufacturing Lab helps Iowa State engineers improve wind power”
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”
Iowa and football are synonymous, and now, so is Iowa and wind power. Appropriately, top-flight gridiron action and clean, affordable, homegrown energy will share the same stage on Saturday, when wind power features prominently throughout the Iowa State Cyclones-Texas Longhorns football game at Jack Trice Stadium. As the No. 1 state for wind power penetration …Continue reading “Iowa State-Texas football game to showcase power of Wind”
July 12th, 2011 by Kelsey Schirm Wind energy in Iowa is an ever-growing industry that has escalated rapidly in the past decade. Working in a state that the American Wind Energy Association ranks as No. 2 in wind energy generation output, professors at Iowa State’s College of Engineering feel a certain responsibility and absolute need …Continue reading “An increase in wind energy education”
Wind energy in Iowa is an ever-growing industry that has escalated rapidly in the past decade. Working in a state that the American Wind Energy Association ranks as No. 2 in wind energy generation output, professors at Iowa State’s College of Engineering feel a certain responsibility and absolute need to focus on wind energy education. …Continue reading “An increase in wind energy education”
Civil Ladies, a diverse female club, is teaming up with the American Society of Civil Engineers to secure a grant to develop an energy-related outreach program. One aspect of the program has the group working with third and fourth graders across the state, showing them the ins and outs of wind turbines. Read the Iowa State …Continue reading “Female civil engineering students work to create outreach program”
As wind energy becomes an increasingly promising renewable energy source, research in the area continues to pick up at Iowa State. Undergraduate students interested in the growing field now have a way to get more involved through the newly established Wind Energy Science, Engineering, and Policy (WESEP) program. WESEP is a National Science Foundation (NSF) …Continue reading “New wind energy research opportunity for undergraduates”
Three new interdisciplinary research initiatives have been announced by the Iowa State University College of Engineering as part of an innovative program designed to compete for and win multi-million dollar grants, spur economic development, and drive technologies that benefit Iowa and the nation. The Dean’s Research Initiatives build public-private teams in the areas of the …Continue reading “Engineering forms interdisciplinary research teams aiming for major grants”
In the past few months, College of Engineering researchers on three projects—one on novel nanovaccines, one on new wind turbine structures, and another on energy and transportation infrastructure planning—have reached key milestones in their research. Here are some highlights: Making one-dose, needle-free nanovaccines for infectious diseases Can you imagine a world where diseases such as …Continue reading “Research updates”
When asked about the difference between scientists and engineers, Albert Einstein is said to have remarked, “Scientists investigate that which already is. Engineers create that which has never existed.” I like to make that point to young people when I speak of the engineering profession and its rewards. Engineers put science to work and literally …Continue reading “More than numbers”
Members of the American Wind Energy Association stopped at Iowa State Thursday afternoon and met with faculty from the College of Engineering. Read a short story from The Tribune here and a slightly longer one here.
Kathy Belyeu, manager of the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) Industry Information Services, will share the results of the American Wind Energy Association’s Annual Wind Industry Report on Thursday, April 29, at 2 p.m. in Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall. In addition to the national report, Belyeu will provide information specifically about Iowa, which has …Continue reading “College to host wind energy market report”
