{"id":20,"date":"2013-09-13T16:22:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T21:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engr-wpstaging.engineering.iastate.edu\/isu-lanzhou-program\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2025-08-07T11:24:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:24:40","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/isu-lanzhou-program\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research is an important facet of engineering education excellence at Iowa State University. Our award-winning and internationally recognized faculty and graduate students collaborate with industry and other organizations to pursue highly innovative research. View the following departments&#8217; Web pages for more information on their research activities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccee.iastate.edu\/index.php?id=788\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ece.iastate.edu\/index.php?id=2767\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Electrical and Computer Engineering <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Undergraduate Research Opportunities<\/h2>\n<p>Iowa State offers on-campus research opportunities to undergraduate students, too. Students need to contact their academic advisor and\/or a faculty member in the department if they are interested in an undergraduate research opportunity. View a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ece.iastate.edu\/index.php?id=2746\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">undergraduate research opportunities available to electrical and computer engineering students<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Research Centers and Institutes<\/h2>\n<p>Iowa State is home to many well-respected, cutting-edge research centers and institutes, including the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bec.iastate.edu\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Bridge Engineering Center (BEC)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iprt.iastate.edu\/assistance\/index.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Advanced Technology Development (IPRT Company Assistance)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciras.iastate.edu\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Industrial Research and Service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnde.iastate.edu\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cset.iastate.edu\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intrans.iastate.edu\/cwims\/index.cfm\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Weather Impacts on Mobility and Safety (CWIMS)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfdc.iastate.edu\">Computational Fluid Dynamics Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/powerweb.ece.iastate.edu\/eprc_index.shtml\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Electric Power Research Center (EPRC)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ece.iastate.edu\/index.php?id=2798\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Information Infrastructure Institute<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iac.iastate.edu\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Information Assurance Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iprt.iastate.edu\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute for Physical Research and Technology (IPRT) <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intrans.iastate.edu\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute for Transportation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrc.iastate.edu\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Microelectronics Research Center (MRC)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intrans.iastate.edu\/mtc\/\">Midwest Transportation Consortium<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cptechcenter.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">National Concrete Pavement Technology Center (CP Tech Center)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plantsciences.iastate.edu\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Plant Sciences Institute<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioinformatics.iastate.edu\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">L.H. Baker Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ameslab.gov\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s Ames Laboratory<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrac.iastate.edu\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vlsi.ece.iastate.edu\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">VLSI Design Center<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research is an important facet of engineering education excellence at Iowa State University. Our award-winning and internationally recognized faculty and graduate students collaborate with industry and other organizations to pursue highly innovative research. View the following departments&#8217; Web pages for more information on their research activities: Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/isu-lanzhou-program\/research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/isu-lanzhou-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/isu-lanzhou-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/isu-lanzhou-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/isu-lanzhou-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/isu-lanzhou-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/isu-lanzhou-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/isu-lanzhou-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/isu-lanzhou-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}