Department Research and Infrastructure

Research teams allow engineers, scientists, and students to combine their knowledge and skills to create key contributions to engineering that help shape our world – now and into the future.

Research teams conduct many projects that deliver life-sustaining and industry-changing impacts to citizens throughout the state, the Midwest region, the nation, and around the world. Our department ranks top in research and development spending among the nation’s agricultural and biosystems engineering departments at public universities.

Department research addresses global challenges, from renewable energy and sustainable chemicals to the development of novel therapeutics and biotechnologies, and the design of functional materials and beyond.

Engineers impact the lives of people all over the world every day. ISU CCEE encourages its faculty and students to pursue innovative research. 

The department is committed to research excellence, and our success now, and in the future, comes from the leadership and experience of talented faculty, the success of students, collaborations with industry, and the support of our alumni.

The department is committed to conducting student-involved research that leads to fundamental advances in industrial engineering knowledge with innovative practical applications.

The department engages in research that advances materials products and systems. To make these advances, our research begins by looking at the complex relationship between a material’s properties, structure, processing, and its performance. The research of our faculty spans across the major materials classes and is organized into focus areas.

The department cultivates an agile and impactful research enterprise that addresses society’s needs and challenges by conducting scholarly research that advances knowledge and engineering practice.