More than lab work
Two themes that I’ve emphasized as dean are collaboration and sustainability. While it’s not difficult to imagine that those two concepts are closely related, to see them resonate well in a single...
View ArticleAn 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...
View ArticleME professor’s research featured on National Science Foundation homepage
The research about an innovative new way to engineer fluid stream flow done by Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and his team of researchers is currently...
View ArticleThree MSE alumni receive NSF Research Fellowships
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) honored three Iowa State College of Engineering alumni this year. The respected program recognizes people who have...
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Cory Kleinheksel: Improving education
Cory Kleinheksel is taking steps to improve education for future generations of students and teachers. Cory Kleinheksel, an Iowa State Alumnus with a Ph.D. in computer engineering, grew up in the small...
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Jeong leads NSF project to develop fast, efficient means of analyzing data
Have you ever heard two people describe the same thing but come up with two very different descriptions? Discrepancies can cause problems. And when it comes to gathering data (and analyzing that data),...
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Bypassing cognitive bottleneck: $1M National Science Foundation grant awarded...
For emergency responders and traffic operators, safety on highways has long been a struggle to reduce response times to accidents while keeping roadway congestion to a minimum. For researcher Anuj...
View ArticleCreating new worlds to study plant life
“You can observe and measure phenotype, but it has been mostly done manually,” Tang says. “We see more and more automated applications to help scientists collect data. With the Enviratron we can probe...
View ArticleWelding industry tech to student opportunities
David Grewell has his thumb on the pulse of industry. He also has a unique approach to problem solving, which he uses in his research and encourages among his students. A professor of agricultural and...
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Chang receives LSAMP-IINSPIRE mentoring award
Boyce Chang, a second-year doctorate student in the materials science and engineering department, received the award for Excellence in Mentoring with the LSAMP-IINSPIRE program. He received the award...
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Moving Fast: Tirthapura wins NSF grant on mining from massive data streams
In today’s technology-driven world, the need to have information instantaneously is growing. Big data can be of large “volume,” meaning the number of bytes required to store the data, as well as high...
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ECpE Assistant Professor Wang wins seventh federal grant in two years
Iowa State University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECpE) Harpole-Pentair Assistant Professor Zhaoyu Wang received a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for...
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Iowa State researchers receive $2.4 million grant to improve decision making...
Iowa State University researchers have received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to analyze food, energy and water (FEW) interdependencies and create a simulator that will assist in...
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ECpE and ME professors win NSF grant
The security of the modern power grid is constantly challenged with advanced cyber threats. The frequency of these cyber attacks and their sophistication has significantly increased over the last few...
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Seven Iowa State University College of Engineering faculty receive...
Seven Iowa State University College of Engineering faculty have been selected for 2018 National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER). CAREER awards are the NSF’s most...
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Alipour awarded National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Alice Alipour, assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering Iowa State structural engineering researcher earns prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) funding...
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NSF grant aims to train research-based graduate students for various career...
A National Science Foundation (NSF) grant awarded to an interdisciplinary team led by an industrial engineering faculty member will combine elements of engineering with agriculture, economics and...
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IE and agronomy team up for $2 million NSF research project
From left: Lizhi Wang, associate professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering (IMSE); William Beavis, professor of agronomy; Guiping Hu, associate professor of IMSE; and Sotirios...
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MoSAIc prepares students for careers in research, and beyond
As a summer research program within the mechanical engineering department prepares to enter its 10th year, program alums have reflected on their experience and how it helped them get to where they are...
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IMSE’s John Jackman appointed to National Science Foundation position
Jackman Experienced scholar and educator John Jackman has been appointed program director in the Division of Undergraduate of NSF’s Education and Human Resources Directorate in Alexandria, Virginia. In...
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ISU researchers to study blockchain technology to improve sustainability in...
Food production systems could become more environmentally sustainable and K-12 students could become more educated about it as part of a new research project. A team of Iowa State University...
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ECpE professors receive $1 million NSF grant for data-driven vision of future...
Driving along the highway, most people have seen parts of the U.S. power grid in the form of tall, metal towers carrying power lines. These power lines are transmitting much of the electricity we use...
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Engineering research project studies active shooter situations in schools
Researchers at Iowa State University are using their expertise to create a system that will provide students, teachers, police officers and others with accurate, real-time information in the event of...
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An interdisciplinary path to plant root research
No day is “just a normal day” in Ludovico Cademartiri’s research group. Not when there are so many questions to answer about crop plants using a convergence of materials science and engineering,...
View ArticleECpE assistant professor earns first research grant since joining ISU
Keeping the power grid running efficiently and effectively is crucial to the continuation of our way of life. Since joining Iowa State University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in...
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Q&A with ME Professor Xinwei Wang on New NSF grant to manufacture novel...
Nick Hunter (left), a Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering, poses with Xinwei Wang, a professor of mechanical engineering, inside Dr. Wang’s Micro/Nanoscale Thermal Science Laboratory at Applied...
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ECpE’s Que receives NSF award for silicon nanotube research
Silicon nanotubes, shown above, have several potential applications. The innovation and development of advanced nanotube technology has massive potential to affect progress in several research fields....
View ArticleAlum is nominee for next NSF director
President Barack Obama recently announced his intent to nominate Subra Suresh, MSME’79, as director of the National Science Foundation. Suresh is currently dean of the MIT School of Engineering. Read...
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CoE Alum takes the wheel at NSF
Science Magazine sat down with Iowa State University College of Engineering alum Subra Suresh, MSME’79, after his first week as director of the US National Science Foundation. Click here to read the...
View ArticleME Alumnus Will Receive Distinguished Alumni Award
Dr. Subra Suresh is the current Director of NSF and a former Dean at MIT and will be honored with an ISU Distinguished Alumni Award. Subra will be recognized at the 2011 Distinguished Awards Ceremony...
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NSF director wraps up campus visit (updated)
Subra Suresh, director of the National Science Foundation, delivered the inaugural Vlasta Klima Balloun Lecture on Friday, then crossed campus to receive the university’s Distinguished Alumni Award....
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