Iowa State University engineer Zhaoyu Wang is working with others to develop a smart grid he hopes will prevent the blackouts left by events such as Hurricane Matthew, which robbed 2 million of power. “It’s really a ‘dumb’ system,” Wang, an Iowa State University assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, said in a statement. ISU has several million dollars in grants to study how areas can recover from disasters, and how to make the power grid more resilient. Read the full news release.