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Shechtman receives major international award Dan Shechtman, an MSE professor and a research scientist with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, received the Materials Research 25th Anniversary Award at a ceremony and banquet held at the 2008 European Materials Research Society meeting in Strasbourg, France, on May 28. The award, which is presented only once every five years, is the highest recognition conferred upon a materials scientist by the society, which is Europe’s leading organization for the support and advancement of research in materials. Shechtman is renowned for his discovery in 1982 of the icosahedral phase in rapidly solidified aluminum transition metal alloys, which opened up the field of quasi-periodic crystals as an area of study in materials science. (News release) Regents approve P&T list Congratulations to these 11 faculty members, who were approved for promotion and tenure at the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, meeting in May. Promoted to professor (already tenured)--Sarah Ryan, IMSE; and Zhi Jian Wang, AerE. Promoted to associate professor with tenure--Yong Guan, ECpE; Chris Rehmann, CCEE; Jiming Song, ECpE; Shankar Subramaniam, ME; Sriram Sundararajan, ME; Xiaoli Tan, MSE; Srikanta Tirthapura, ECpE; and Zhengdao Wang, ECpE. R. Christopher Williams, CCEE, received tenure as associate professor. Innovate features new information technologies
Alum receives Zaffarano Prize Scott Emrich has received the 2008 Iowa State Zaffarano Prize for superior performance in publishable research by a graduate student. Emrich earned his PhD in August 2007 from the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Interdepartmental Program and ECpE. His research area is bioinformatics, where he has done significant work in genome assembly computations through gene sequencing and discovery. Srinivas Aluru served as his major professor. Emrich is now an assistant professor in computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame. (More information) Baris Unal, a current MSE PhD student, received a Zaffarano Prize honorable mention. Unal, whose research is related to surface properties of quasicrystalline materials, has nine peer-reviewed publications and numerous presentations to date. Pat Thiel is his major professor. Orientation brings students and parents to campus Nearly 1,300 students and their parents will participate in engineering orientation sessions during June. Activities are being held in Marston and Hoover Halls. Please help us welcome these new students and their parents to Iowa State. See Summer Orientation for more information. |
College awards first 2050 Challenge Fellowships The College of Engineering has awarded its first 2050 Challenge Fellowships to support PhD students whose research addresses engineering issues related to sustainability and quality of life over the next four decades. The fellowships are supported through private donations and the College of Engineering general fund. Jim Waters, vice president of Caterpillar Production Systems Division and a 1981 graduate in electrical engineering, recently donated funds to assist the college in meeting its priorities. A portion of his donation is being used for the fellowships. For fall 2008, two College of Engineering and two Jim Waters 2050 Challenge Fellowships, totaling more than $40,000, have been awarded. The fellowship recipients and their advisers are Kennan L. Deutsch, CBE, Brent Shanks; Cara J. Dienes, IMSE, Lizhi Wang; Eduardo Ibáñez Sopeña, ECpE, James McCalley; and Zhonghua Xu, ME, Qingze Zou. For more information about the 2050 Challenge Fellowships, contact Nancy Knight, director, Graduate Enrollment Management, nknight@iastate.edu. (News release) Engineering faculty and staff awards announced Seven faculty and staff members have been selected to receive College of Engineering awards for 2008. The recipients are Chris Chu, ECpE, Young Engineering Faculty Research Award; Tom Glanville, ABE, Superior Engineering Extension Award; Ann Laws, AerE, Deans’ Staff Excellence Award; Martha Selby, MSE, Superior Engineering Advisor Award; Pranav Shrotriya, ME, Young Engineering Faculty Research Award; Brian Steward, ABE, Superior Engineering Teacher Award; and Hongwei Xin, ABE, David R. Boylan Eminent Faculty Research Award. The awards will be presented at the College of Engineering fall convocation on Wednesday, August 27, at 3:10 p.m. in the Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium in Howe Hall. Student teams compete in national and regional contests
Student teams with members from one or more engineering departments have been participating in a variety of competitions this spring. To learn more about these teams and their activities, check out these news releases: MAVERIC (Mars analog vehicle for robotic inspection and construction), Cyclone Power Pullers, Mini-Baja, Formula SAE, Solar Decathlon, and Human Powered Vehicle. In addition, the Iowa State solar car team is getting ready for the North American Solar Challenge race, which begins July 13 in Dallas, Texas. The newly designed solar car, named Sol Invictus, is featured in the new issue of Innovate. |
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