Chung wins Air Force Young Investigator Award

Soon-Jo Chung, AerE, has been selected to receive a three-year $300,000 grant through the Air Force Young Investigator Research Program. In his project “Bio-Inspired Integrated Sensing and Control of Flapping Flight for Micro Aerial Vehicles,” Chung will devise and evaluate a sensing and control system that mimics the neuronal networks of natural flyers such as birds and bats. (News release)


Iowa State team wins “Hardware Hacking” cyber security contest

A team of five electrical and computer engineering students recently won a national cyber security competition at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (an affiliate of NYU, formerly called Brooklyn Polytechnic). The group’s task was to embed a Trojan in the hardware that looked innocuous but could be designed to secretly leak information, function incorrectly, or stop the device from working altogether. (News release)


Mark your calendars!

November 6—“An understanding of energy supply and demand in the United States” by Clair J. Moeller, as part of the Engineering Policy and Leadership Institute thematic year, Energy Security and Sustainability, 7-9 p.m., Howe Hall Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium

November 6—The Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Speaker Series, “One for All and All for One: The Rhetoric of Climate Change and Sustainability,” Tarla R. Peterson, 8 p.m., Memorial Union Campanile Room