Guest post by Austin Laugen, graduating senior in computer engineering My time at Iowa State is coming to a close, and I’ll soon be walking across the stage at graduation and entering the “real world.” There will be no more homework, no more icy walks to class, and no more late …
The goal of engineering is to improve lives by solving the world’s problems, and Iowa State’s College of Engineering believes it’s never too early to start thinking globally. Several courses in the college require students to identify and find solutions to major issues in poverty-stricken countries. Students use the semester …
The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) section at Iowa State was recently awarded a grant through the Procter & Gamble Fund Higher Education Grant Program. The grant, in the amount of $10,000, will help the section fund its regular activities as well as a variety of new ideas. The Procter …
This fall, five Iowa State students were awarded research funding through the Iowa Space Grant Consortium program, a fellowship distributed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Students receiving the fellowship include undergraduate students Benjamin Huseman, Christian Setzer, and Rebecca Meerdink, and graduate students J. Eliseo De León and Mitchell …
When faculty members from the Aerospace Engineering (AerE) department were in need of small steel bars used to test for failure, faculty from the Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering (ABE) department stepped up to provide just that. Faculty members from the ABE department and the AerE department recently found a way …
After attending the national Materials Science and Technology Conference held in Pittsburgh from October 7 – 11, the Iowa State Material Advantage (MA) chapter returned to Ames having received the Most Outstanding Chapter award. This is the ninth consecutive year the organization has earned this award, and MA members say it …
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 …
Growing up around R & D Industries, Inc., a computer network engineering and solutions company owned by his father, Christopher Van Oort, senior in software engineering at Iowa State, knows the ins and outs of computers. To gain practical experience, he has spent the past four years interning for Thinix, …
On to the next stage
6 May 2013
Engineering is my passion
15 Apr 2013
Reflections on serving as interim dean
13 Mar 2013