InTrans / Oct 10, 2025
BEC’s Alipour among InTrans staff who earned College of Engineering recognition
Institute for Transportation (InTrans) researchers are among the 40 Iowa State University College of Engineering (COE) faculty and staff who were recognized at a ceremony last month for earning one of the college’s annual awards, named positions, and new patents.
Bridge Engineering Center Structure and Infrastructure Engineer Alice Alipour earned the college’s Award for Mid-Career Achievement in Research. The award recognizes faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding accomplishments in research and/or creative activity at the mid-career stage, with 9 to 16 years of professional experience and a minimum of 3 years at Iowa State.
The award citation at the ceremony noted that Alipour, who is also an associate professor in the college’s Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering (CCEE) Department, is a creative and productive professor, the competitiveness of whose research efforts is reflected in more than $22.8M in total grants as principal investigator (PI) or co-PI. It also noted that of this total, nearly 90% of those grant funds are from some of the most prestigious federal funding agencies.
In addition to Alipour’s award, the COE also announced new named faculty positions for InTrans staff and CCEE associate professors Jennifer Shane and Christopher Day.
Shane, who is also InTrans’ Construction Management and Technology (CMAT) Program director, was named W.A. Klinger Chair for Construction Engineering. Day, who is also an InTrans research scientist, was named a Cerwick Faculty Fellow.
The COE also recognized the following new patent recipients associated with InTrans:
- Asphalt Materials and Pavements Program Director Chris Williams—with Eric Cochran, Michael Forrester, and Baker Kuehl, researchers in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Theodore Huisman, Gerald and Audrey Olson Soil Mechanics Laboratory supervisor: Maintenance Treatments Useful for Improving the Performance of Aged or Brittle Resinous Binders in Paving or Roofing
- Program for Sustainable Pavement Engineering and Research Director Halil Ceylan: Electrically-Conductive Asphalt Concrete Containing Carbon Fibers
To see the full list of Iowa State’s COE faculty recognized this fall, see the college’s summary of the award winners.