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Make your reservations now for the Marston Club and Patent Dinner on April 16 at the CPMI Event Center, Iowa State Research Park. The cost is $35. The program will feature Interim Dean James Bernard and Vice Provost Elizabeth Hoffman. All 2008 faculty patent recipients and the Professional Progress in Engineering Awardees—Chris Clover (BSAerE'91/MSAerE'92/MBA'94/PhDME'96), Sridhar Desikan (PhDChE'97), Dr. Craig Mahoney (BSIE'91), and Meiyu Shen (PhDChE'99)—will be recognized. Contact Kristin Littlejohn at klittle@iastate.edu or Linda Kelley at lkelley@iastate.edu with any questions. Please RSVP by April 9. Click here for more information and to RSVP. Engineering team works in India
Three Iowa State engineering students and two faculty members were part of a multi-institutional team that recently spent 10 days in India working on rural development projects. The Iowa State chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World organized the trip. Mike Anderson (ChE4), Pasha Beresnev (CE1), and Wally Hudyma (ConE3)—along with ABE Associate Professor Alok Bhandari, CCEE Professor Say Kee Ong, and two other Iowa State students—joined with a Kansas State faculty member and four students as well as ten students from India's Dehradun Institute of Technology to work on projects identified by a local NGO, the Purkul Village Development Society. The projects included runoff and rooftop rainwater harvesting, solar streetlights, and a solar food drier. This kind of experience has multiple benefits for students, according to Bhandari. "They are enriched by an improved understanding of their own culture and the culture of the host country, and they witness the application of the engineering design process to solve peoples' problems and improve their quality of life," he says. Hudyma, who worked on the solar light project, adds, "It was a great experience assessing what materials we could use and working out the design and everything. The most valuable thing to me, though, was being part of an international team. We are staying in contact and hope to have a prototype ready for the NGO person by July."
Iowa State University's annual Emerging Technologies Conference is your chance to see how virtual reality, social networks, and other innovations are building relationships between people and their computers. The conference will feature speakers, demonstrations, technical presentations, networking, and some IT fun and games. It will be Thursday, April 2, and Friday, April 3, in Howe Hall, with an evening "IgniteIT" event at the Iowa State Research Park. The event is free for Iowa State students, faculty, and staff. (News release)
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The latest College of Engineering "Two Minutes with…" segment on the Web is a video featuring Sumit Chaudhary, ECpE assistant professor, and his work developing organic-based solar technology. These new solar cells will be more economical and flexible than what is currently available, leading to many new applications. Click here to view Two Minutes with Sumit Chaudhary. Doraiswamy lecturer to address liquid fuel options James R. Katzer, retired former manager of strategic planning performance analysis for ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company and Iowa State ChE alum, will present the lecture "Liquid Transportation Fuel Options" as part of the L. K. Doraiswamy Honor Lectureship. This free lecture will be held Thursday, April 2, at 11 a.m. in 171 Durham Hall. The lectureship is named in honor of L. K. Doraiswamy, Anson Marston Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and a former director of India's National Chemical Laboratory. (News release)
The South Ballroom of the Memorial Union will be a busy place on Thursday, April 2, as 15 high school and middle school teams from across Iowa compete in Tau Beta Pi's 5th annual roller coaster competition. For this event, which will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the teams have designed and built roller coasters that can transport a ball (10–25 mm) from start to finish using mechanical energy such as springs, magnets, rubber bands, and pulleys. The teams will be judged on presentation, overall theme, and technical skill. Stop by and see what the students have created.
Iowa State's Professional and Scientific Council will showcase innovative and successful projects that received 2008–2009 Retention and Recruitment Grants at an open forum on Thursday, April 2, 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. in the Memorial Union Multicultural Center and Gallery. "PERUSE: Providing Experiences in Research for Undergraduate Students in Engineering" will be one of the featured posters and ME program assistants Janelle Miranda and Amy Carver will present "Strong. Smart. Women." as one of two presentations highlighting recruitment and diversity. The presentations will begin at 12:10 p.m. in the Gallery. There will be refreshments and door prizes.
Two of the 12 student teams selected for the annual Computer Human Interaction student design competition that starts April 4 in Boston are from Iowa State's Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) graduate program. "This competition represents the cream of the human-computer interaction crop," says Stephen Gilbert, associate director of the Virtual Reality Applications Center, home of the HCI program. "We’re excited to show the world what Iowa State HCI students are capable of doing." (News release) April 2–April 3—Emerging Technologies Conference, Howe Hall
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