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	On Friday, November 5, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m., Ted Heindel, who holds the William and Virginia Binger Associate Professorship in Mechanical Engineering, will showcase the new industrial-size scanner located in 1121 Black Engineering, the Transport Processes Laboratory. Heindel teamed up with Joe Gray, leader of the x-ray group at the ISU Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE), and Terry Jensen, a CNDE physicist, to design and build this one-of-a-kind 3-D x-ray imaging system. Funded through $640,000 in grants from the National Science Foundation’s major instrumentation program and Iowa State University, the facility will provide researchers an “inside” look at multiphase flows. Press Release Six of the university-wide P&S recruitment and retention grants announced last week went to projects related to the College of Engineering. Each year, a call for proposals is issued to P&S employees to submit ideas for innovative projects focused on retention and recruitment. In conjunction with the university’s strategic priorities, special emphasis was given to projects that addressed recruitment and retention of underrepresented American minority and/or community-college transfer students. The six projects and main contacts are: Beyond the BS, Graduate Fellowships—Engineering Your Future; Nancy Knight, manager, Engineering Graduate Programs Construction Engineering: “Staying Power” Recruitment and Retention; Rhonda Wiley-Jones, academic advisor, CCEE Engineering Recruitment Video Journal; Jodi Gilbertson, program coordinator, Engineering Outreach and Recruitment ISU FIRST LEGO League Mentors; Camille Sloan Schroeder, program coordinator, Engineering Undergraduate Programs Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Shadow Day; M. Monica Bruning, director, Office of Outreach and Recruitment Women in Science and Engineering Career Awareness Program; Lora Leigh Chrystal, program coordinator, Women in Science and Engineering Complete list and description of projects		Radhey S. Sharma, assistant professor in civil, construction, and environmental engineering, has been awarded the Telford Medal, the highest award presented by the Institution of Civil Engineers, London. He was honored for his paper, “Coupling of hydraulic hysteresis and stress-strain behavior in unsaturated soils,” which presents a new theoretical framework for understanding and modeling the mechanical and hydraulic behavior of unsaturated soils. Co-authors with Sharma were Simon J. Wheeler and Marc Buisson. The paper was published in the prestigious journal Geotechnique. Press Release Judy Vance, professor and chair of mechanical engineering, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International. This honor is bestowed upon ASME members who have at least 10 years of active engineering practice and who have made significant contributions to the field. Less than 2 percent of the organization’s membership receive this honor. Vance serves on the NSF Engineering Directorate Advisory Committee, and she is founding president of the Women in Engineering Leadership Institute. Press Release Deere & Company has announced a new three-year initiative supporting research in the Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC). This initiative continues the company’s decade of support to applied virtual reality research at VRAC. Research topics include interactive immersive design reviews, collaborative virtual environments, virtual fluids engineering, and control system design methods. Press Release E-News is distributed twice monthly by Engineering Communications and Marketing. If you have questions or news items to suggest, please contact Mary Jo Glanville at mglanvil@iastate.edu or call 4-8787.