The Fellinger Prize in Thermal Sciences is given annually to a senior ME student who has excelled and shows promise in the thermo-fluids-heat transfer and energy utilization parts of the undergraduate curriculum. Joel Logan was recognized spring semester 2006 with a $250 award.

Pictured left to right: Ron Nelson, Joel Logan, Judy Vance

The Iowa State University Human Powered Vehicle (HPV) team took first place in the multi-rider vehicle division at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) East Coast Challenge in Charlotte, North Carolina, May 5–7. This is the first time Iowa State’s ASME student chapter has entered an HPV competition. The first ISU HPV Team at an HPV competition consisted of Michael Morse, Royal Elmore, Woodrow Witherow, Jeff Bartels, Kyle Rehn, Greg Swiss, and Jeff Feuerhelm.  Read more here...

The Mechanical Engineering department at ISU is pleased to announce many recent honors and awards received by its faculty and staff members. Doug Beck, Jim Bernard, Mark Bryden, Ted Heindel, Ron, Nelson, Mike Olsen, and Dick Pletcher have all recently received recognition for their achievements. For more details, including the specific honors or awards that each faculty or staff member has received, please click here…

Pranav Shrotriya has been awarded one of the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards given to early career faculty. The NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award provides funding to support an integrated research and teaching plan focused on exciting new research challenges. The outstanding faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Department at ISU include three additional NSF CAREER awardees, one Department of Energy CAREER awardee and two NSF Presidential Young Investigator awardees.  Read more here...