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College convocation on Wednesday

The College of Engineering will open the 2007-2008 academic year with its convocation on Wednesday, August 22, at 3:10 p.m. in Howe Hall, Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium. The theme is Iowa State’s sesquicentennial.

Join us as we welcome new faculty/staff and present eight College of Engineering awards for 2007. The recipients are Robert Burns, ABE, Superior Engineering Extension Award; Dale Chimenti, AerE, David R. Boylan Eminent Faculty Research Award; Alan Constant, MSE, Superior Engineering Teacher Award; Steven Kovarik, ECpE, Deans’ Staff Excellence Award; Brent Shanks, CBE, Superior Engineering Teacher Award; Sriram Sundararajan, ME, Young Engineering Faculty Research Award; Xiaoli Tan, MSE, Young Engineering Faculty Research Award; and Vicky Thorland-Oster, ECpE, Superior Engineering Advisor Award.


Burns	Chimenti	Constant	Kovarik

Shanks	Sundararajan	Tan	Thorland-Oster

Faculty promotion and tenure recipients and three endowed positions--Edward Jaselskis, W. A. Klinger Teaching Professorship in Construction Engineering; David White, Waldo Wegner Professorship in Civil Engineering; and Stuart Birrell, Kinze Manufacturing Professorship in ABE--will also be recognized. Dean Mark J. Kushner will deliver a State of the College address. A reception will follow the program.

Learning Communities Institute presents awards

In its ninth annual awards presentation, the Learning Communities Institute honored four engineering faculty and staff for their extraordinary contributions to Iowa State learning communities. Doug Beck, ME, was recognized for outstanding innovations; Steve Mikelson and Tom Brumm, ABE, for scholarship; and Katherine Lyons, engineering academic services, for outstanding service.

Programs move to Marston

The Office of Biorenewables Programs and Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies have moved from the Metals Development Building to 411 Marston Hall. Please update your directories and mailing lists. Staff affected by this change include Robert Brown, Diane M. Love, Tonia McCarley, and Becky Staedtler.

ABE and college move up in national rankings

The Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering undergraduate program has moved up to second place in the U.S. News and World Report rankings released August 17. The program was previously rated sixth among public and private universities whose highest degree is a PhD. Additionally, the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering undergraduate program was ranked 23rd (14th among public institutions). Iowa State’s overall engineering program was ranked 37th in the nation among programs accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, up from 39th in 2006. Among public university engineering programs, Iowa State is tied for 22nd with Arizona State University and the University of California-Santa Barbara. (News release)

Alum continues assignment in orbit

AerE alum Clay Anderson continues to live and work aboard the International Space Station (ISS). In the past week, Anderson has been on two spacewalks to work on the ISS making preparation for further construction and participated in teacher astronaut Barbara Morgan’s lessons delivered via satellite to a classroom in Idaho. (Link to Expedition 15 photo gallery.) Two other AerE alums have played a role in the current NASA mission. Joel Montalbano, a 1988 graduate, is the lead flight director at Mission Control for Endeavour, and LeRoy Cain, also a 1988 graduate, is launch integration manager for all shuttles at Kennedy Space Center. (Read more here.)

NSF grant funds study of Iowa lakes

With the help of a new $482,115 National Science Foundation grant, Chris Rehmann, CCEE, and his research team are conducting tests on Ada Hayden lake in Ames this summer and will study West Okoboji Lake next summer. The team includes Danielle Wain, PhD student in environmental engineering, and three undergraduate research assistants. The researchers are studying the interior movements in lakes to better understand how nutrients and pollutants are transported from a lake’s boundaries to its interior. (News release)

Upcoming Events

August 30--CCEE student center and classroom dedication, 3 p.m., south lawn, Town Engineering (Details)

September 10--Iowa State University Convocation and Awards Ceremony, 3:15 p.m., Sun Room, Memorial Union

September 16-22--Engineers Week (Complete schedule)


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