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Somani named Distinguished Professor
Three Iowa Staters helped at the three-day competition. Brandon Newendorp, senior in computer engineering, was a referee; Jake Ingman, mechanical engineering and human computer interaction alum, was field manager; and Camille Schroeder, director of K-12 outreach, served as judge advisor, overseeing all of the judging.
Later this month, Cedar Falls, the runner-up from the Iowa FLL, will compete in the FLL European Open in Norway, representing the United States as one of only six North American teams invited to participate. |
Alum prepares for June space flight  Clay Anderson, the first Iowa State alum to become an astronaut, is preparing to go to the International Space Station. Anderson, who earned his MS in aerospace engineering in 1983, is slated to be on board the space shuttle Atlantis for the June 8 launch from Kennedy Space Center. (News release)Graduate students honored Twelve graduate students in the College of Engineering received spring 2007 Teaching and Research Excellence awards from the Iowa State Graduate College. The teaching excellence winners are Suphalat Chittamvanich, IMSE; Hemanth Porumamilla, ME; Daniel Helvick, ECpE; Philip Reusswig, ECpE; Hakan Topakkaya, ECpE; and Shuning Wu, IMSE. The research excellence winners are Jae Ho Ho, CCEE; Samantha Hockerman, CCEE; Piyamart Kumsaikaew, IMSE; Zhenhui Shen, ECpE; Jin Sun, ME; and Changyan Zhou, ECpE. Solar car tours Iowa
Thirteen members of Iowa State University's Team PrISUm will take Fusion, the 2005 solar race car, on a SunRun around the state May 7-11. They will show the car to elementary, middle school, and high school students. They will also stop at a community college, an aviation museum, and the Science Center of Iowa. They will talk about the value of renewable energy and the fun of innovation and answer questions about the car, which is designed, built, and raced by Iowa State students. (News release) |
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Arun K. Somani, the Jerry R. Junkins Chair Professor and chair of electrical and computer engineering, has been named Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering. He is one of six Iowa State faculty members awarded the title of Distinguished Professor or University Professor this spring. They will be honored at the university convocation and awards ceremony September 10. (
Sarah Ryan has been designated an AT&T Faculty Fellow in Industrial Ecology by the AT&T Foundation, the corporate philanthropy organization of AT&T Inc. Ryan, IMSE associate professor and interim chair, was awarded the $25,000 environmental research grant for her proposal, “The Value of Improved Product Condition Information to Product-Based Service Providers.” She is one of only three academic researchers selected to receive funding from the 2006 competitive grants program. (
Sergiy Peleshanko, who received his PhD in materials science and engineering last December, has been awarded the 2007 Zaffarano Prize. Presented by the Iowa State Graduate College, the award recognizes superior performance in publishable research. As a graduate student, Peleshanko had 22 publications in prestigious, peer-reviewed journals and was first author on five. His research centered on nanotechnology fabrication and characterization techniques. He is currently a postdoctoral associate in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and has accepted a position at Stanford University for next year. (E-News is distributed 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.  104 Marston Hall, Ames, IA 5001, (515) 294-5933, info@eng.iastate.edu Copyright © 2004, Iowa State University of Science and Technology. All rights reserved. |
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