College News

The Engineering Policy and Leadership Institute has unveiled an impressive program of speakers for its initial thematic year, Energy Security and Sustainability. The months-long series of presentations and moderated roundtable...

The course is called "Technology, Globalization and Culture," the list of guest speakers is impressive, and you are invited to participate. Course instructors James Bernard and Mark Rectanus are opening the course Web site and...

As two large data centers make plans to come to Iowa, engineering professors Arun Somani and Doug Jacobson contribute to the discussion of how such facilities operate and how they fit into the state’s future.

Mark Bryden, associate professor of mechanical engineering, left Ames on July 25, 2008, for what was supposed to be an uneventful visit to the Republic of Georgia. Bryden, who was in Georgia to work on improving the efficiency of...

Robert C. Brown, a Distinguished Professor in the College of Engineering and director of the Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies, is finding that years of work on fluidized bed gasifiers may show new promise in...

The Center for Industrial Research and Service (CIRAS) made more than 1,000 phone contacts to survey Iowa manufacturers about the extent and effects of damage from floods that ravaged Iowa this spring.  What CIRAS found was...