2024 Materials Science and Engineering Impact Report

Highlights from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University.

In this issue:

• A letter from the chair

• Sid Pathak receives NSF CAREER Award

• Lin Zhou explores the atomic realm at the Sensitive Instrument Facility

•  Iver Anderson's storied career coming to an end

• About Ames National Laboratory

• Alina Kirillova 3D printing hydrogels for biomedical applications

• David Eisenmann bringing ground penetrating radar to agriculture at the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation

• From uncertain to passionate, Erik Demeyere found his path in materials engineering

• International collaboration through MSE