AMES, Iowa – Clayton Anderson, an Iowa State University graduate and former NASA astronaut, will join the university as a distinguished faculty fellow in aerospace engineering. Anderson, a native of ...

Two Iowa State University alumni have provided a $42 million gift commitment to build a new facility for industrial engineering students. C.G. "Turk" and Joyce A. McEwen Therkildsen's gift to the ...

Iowa State University opened a new 80,000-square-foot industrial engineering building. A $42 million donation from C.G. “Turk” and Joyce A. McEwen Therkildsen is the largest gift for an academic ...

While mechanical engineering has been the most popular major, many students also take up marketing, agriculture, and exercise science. Iowa State describes itself as having “a large university ...

Located on the southwest side of Howe Hall, the Therkildsen Industrial Engineering building is 80,000 gross square feet and complements the university’s engineering corridor. Photo by Ryan Riley. AMES ...

Iowa State University confers degrees through various schools, such as: the Debbie and Jerry Ivy College of Business, the College of Engineering, and the School of Education.

What is now Iowa State University was originally set up by the state legislature as an agricultural college and model farm in 1858. Land was purchased for close to $5,400 the following year. The ...