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Three honored for leadership The most recent recipients of the Dean’s Leadership Award are Tess Kochan, ChE’02, who combined leadership roles in SWE and Pi Beta Phi with four internships; Kim Knuth, IE’04, known for her work with Engineering Student Council and as president of the National Association of Engineering Student Councils; and Brian Nash, ME’02, an active member of the VEISHEA committee, Government of the Student Body, Lambda Chi Alpha, and four honor societies. They were honored at a banquet during E Week. Each received a plaque and cash award. ECpE receives $500,000 gift Willard and Leitha Richardson, Omaha, have made a gift of $500,000 to endow the first faculty professorship in electrical and computer engineering. Willard graduated from Iowa State in 1934 with a degree in electrical engineering. In 1937, he began a 41-year career with HDR Inc., an architecture and engineering consulting firm based in Omaha with 81 offices worldwide. He was named vice president, secretary, and treasurer in 1946 and executive vice president and treasurer in 1950. He retired in 1977 as senior vice president and partner. The couple has supported many other Iowa State programs, including National Merit Scholarships and Team PrISUm, the college’s solar car project. Student receives national award An Iowa State engineering graduate student has been honored for his positive influence and exemplary leadership as a minority in engineering. Leon Pickett, Jr., of Detroit, a doctoral student in engineering mechanics, received the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science, Inc. (GEM) Student Leadership Award at the 16th Annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference in Baltimore. Pickett was chosen for his leadership and self-reliance from an exclusive pool of 250 GEM Graduate Fellows, the nation’s elite minority students in science and engineering. Pickett has distinguished himself throughout his academic career at Iowa State, first as an undergraduate in engineering operations from 1991 to 1996, and currently as a doctoral candidate in engineering mechanics. He has been a George Washington Carver Scholar (1991–1996), a Ronald McNair Scholar (1995–1996), and a George Washington Carver Doctoral Fellow and a GEM Ph.D. Fellow (both 2000–2003). He has also been involved in various student outreach and retention programs. Prestigious NSF awards for three Three engineering faculty have received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Grants from the National Science Foundation. They are: Li Cao and Michael Olsen, mechanical engineering, and Ashraf Bastawros, aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics. The career award is one of the most prestigious awards for new faculty members given by the National Science Foundation. It recognizes and supports the early career development activities of teacher-scholars who are likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. Junior faculty from all over the country compete for the awards, which are evaluated by a panel of peers. Gift from students Iowa State students involved with the annual fall Engineers Week and spring Career Expo donated $100,000 to the College of Engineering. The donation will be used for engineering student scholarships during the 2002–03 school year. The Engineering Scholarships and Awards Committee will determine recipients, and scholarship amounts will be based on leadership, involvement, and a minimum GPA of 2.5. New duty for Mallapragada Surya Mallapragada, associate professor of chemical engineering, has been named associate director of the Microanalytical Instrumentation Center (MIC). Mallapragada, who is also affiliated with programs in materials science and engineering, biomedical engineering, and neuroscience, sees her role at MIC “as bringing in more of the bioengineering/biomaterials aspects to the excellent work being carried out there.” Among her many awards are an Early Achievement in Research Award from the Iowa State Foundation in 2001 and a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Award in 2000. Program goes the distance Becoming a cybercop is getting easier. Iowa State’s information assurance program is now offering an engineering distance education (EDE) graduate certificate for students interested in enhancing their master’s or undergraduate degrees in computer security. The graduate certificate is available to off-campus students through the EDE program. It can be completed in two or four semesters and doesn’t require the student to come to campus. However, it is only accessible to persons residing in the U.S. The new distance education certificate will allow students in a technical field to move into the computer security field or enhance their position within a company. The program includes videotaped lectures; on-line support through chat rooms, e-mails, and phone; and hands-on learning experience using software systems through the Internet. Those who earn the certificate would qualify to work as security officers or security administrators protecting a company’s computers and assets from hackers. The target audience for the new program is students with a B.S. or M.S. in computer science, computer engineering, or a closely related field. Lockheed Martin gift Lockheed Martin has pledged $150,000 to develop a new software engineering curriculum in the ECpE department. The gift will greatly accelerate the program implementation timetable and will definitely help make this a first-class new program for Iowa State. The gift will be given in three installments; the first installment was presented in late March. Endowed professorship Terry Wipf has been named the first Pitt-Des Moines Inc. Endowed Professor in Civil Engineering. He has been a member of ISU’s civil and construction engineering faculty since 1983. Wipf specializes in structural and dynamic analysis and the design of bridge structures. His research focuses on testing and strengthening various types of bridges. The Pitt-Des Moines endowed professorship was established last August with a $1 million donation from the company in honor of one of its founders, William H. Jackson, a 1891 Iowa State graduate. |
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