College Features

Classes have ended for the academic year, and as students leave campus, they take many memories with them. For 26 students from Iowa State University’s College of Engineering, the most vivid memory will be their 2006 spring break...

From his hometown of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Jack Cosgrove, BSEE’56, has made a world of difference in the electronics industry and in the lives of many students at Iowa State University.

Cosgrove went to work for Collins Radio...

Jim and Kathy Melsa returned to Ames in 1995 when Jim became dean of Iowa State University’s College of Engineering. Until his retirement in 2004, they played major roles in advancing the college, university and the Ames...

Cargill, Inc., and Iowa State University both have deep roots in Iowa—not to mention humble beginnings. While many are familiar with the university’s birth as a small agricultural college in 1858, fewer may be aware that Cargill...

Some read tealeaves, but Zhiqun Lin thinks he can get a better fix on the future of technology by scrutinizing “coffee rings.” For while tealeaf reading is an art form at best, Lin’s work with coffee rings is solidly...

Iowa’s political leaders perennially confront two challenges: first, how to turn technology developed at the state’s leading research universities into opportunities for economic development; and, secondly, how to plug the “brain...

His first hangs on the wall, a model of modernist abstraction; the others are propped up on windowsills, waiting for coveted space in an office bounded largely by windows and bookshelves.

Created in collaboration with several of...

After spending the fall semester teaching and doing research in Greece as a Fulbright Scholar, Jim Alleman is settling into his new role as chair of the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at Iowa...