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🌱 Filling abandoned oil and gas wells with bio-oil made from plant-based leftovers like 🌽 corn stalks and 🌲 forest debris could help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, returning carbon underground in deep shafts once used to extract it.

The emerging practice, the focus of a recent study by an Iowa State University research team led by mechanical engineering professor Mark Mba Wright , has a two-birds-one-stone appeal.

“On the one hand, you have these underutilized waste products. On the other hand, you have abandoned oil wells that need to be plugged. It’s an abundant resource meeting an urgent demand,” Mba-Wright said.

Read more: https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/bio-oil-made-corn-stalks-wood-debris-could-plug-orphaned-fossil-fuel-wells

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Assistant/Associate/Full Teaching Professor of Mechanical Engineering

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Assistant/Associate/Full Teaching Professor of Mechanical Engineering Position Title: Assistant/Associate/Full Teaching Professor of Mechanical Engineering Appointment Type: Faculty Job Description: Summary of Duties and Responsibilities: The Department of Mechanical Engineering, in the College of Engineering at Iowa State University (ISU), invites applications for th...

🔋 Todd Kingston, with the help of a federal grant, has equipped his lab with a unique instrument that allows him to test battery safety and performance. Yes, he said, "This allows us to safely blow up batteries."

Kingston is using an accelerating rate calorimeter system in his laboratory to test batteries for safety and performance.

Read more: https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/charred-chunks-blast-box-reducing-risk-battery-fires-explosions



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📡 The CoSMiC fun as begun! 💫

🪐 Iowa State University's engineering student organization, Cardinal Space Mining Club, is currently hosting the Collegiate Space Mining Competition -- dubbed CoSMiC -- May 21-24 at the Student Innovation Center with team camps in Howe Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

For livestream viewing, please visit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsF2a_niRuA

And for more about this year's competition, you can visit:

https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/cardinal-space-mining-hosts-cosmic-alternative-lunabotics-competition

Iowa State's team will be participating, but as host, not competing.

A warm welcome to Iowa State to all the visiting teams. Good luck and have fun!

Mark your calendars! It's that time of year! The 2025 ME Design Expo is set to happen in one week.

What: 2025 ME Design Expo
Where: Howe Hall Atrium
When: Thursday, May 8, 2025
Time: Noon - 3:00 p.m.

Featuring: Project hands-on learning from ME 2700 - Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Design and ME 4150 - Mechanical Systems Design

Hope to see you there!

🏆 Last week, Pi Tau Sigma, the Iowa State chapter of the national mechanical engineering honor society, held an award ceremony to present Margaret Mathison, mechanical engineering teaching professor, with the 2024-2025 Mechanical Engineering Professor of the Year Award.

Each year, mechanical engineering seniors choose a mechanical engineering faculty member to receive this award.

Congratulations, Margaret Mathison! 👏

Engineers using AI-enabled ‘digital twins’ to improve agriculture, health, manufacturing and more -

https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/engineers-using-digital-twins-improve-agriculture-health-manufacturing-and-more

Iowa State researchers are building "digital twins" that are regularly updated with data from their physical twins. A national committee said digital twins have "immense promise in accelerating scientific discovery and revolutionizing industries."

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