Allen Jacobson (BSChE’47), who earned the 2011 Iowa State University Distinguished Alumni Award, died November 1, 2012. He was 86. He will be greatly missed by the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering as well as the rest of the Iowa State University community, among many. After graduating from Iowa State with a Bachelor’s in …Continue reading “Allen Jacobson, 2011 Iowa State distinguished alumnus, dies”
by Thane Himes ECpE alumnus Agustin A. Irizarry-Rivera (PhD EE ’96) has made quite a name for himself in his home territory of Puerto Rico. Irizarry-Rivera recently was elected to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) Board of Governors. “I was pleased and honored to have been elected,” Irizarry-Rivera said. “It is a public service.” As …Continue reading “ECpE alum elected to Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority Board of Governors”
Dr. James Katzer, an affiliate professor and longtime friend of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, died of a heart attack in his sleep November 2 in Marshalltown, Iowa. He was 71. Katzer began his Iowa State career as a chemical engineering undergraduate in fall 1961. He spent a year prior at Marshalltown Junior …Continue reading “James Katzer, chemical engineering alumnus and longtime CBE colleague, dies”
It was not an engineering challenge for mere mortals. It was for no less a superhero than Fluoride Man, defender of good dental hygiene, that Iowa State engineering students Ryan Betters and Ryan Francois designed, built and flew the glider “Bristle Buster F2” in Red Bull Flugtag, a human-powered flight competition held in Singapore Oct. …Continue reading “Iowa State students launch “Bristle Buster F2” glider in flight contest”
Roger Less, Iowa State Engineering Alum, is in charge of the Army Corps of Engineers’ unwatering of New York City and the subway system. Video from the Today Show.
Two scientists at the U. S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have developed a computational method that will make the search for new catalysts more precise and less painstaking. In turn, the discovery could speed the development of efficient hydrogen storage materials, one of the technological obstacles for getting greener, cleaner hydrogen fuel cell vehicles …Continue reading “Ames Laboratory scientists develop better search tool for nanoalloys”
Symbi is known as “Iowa’s GK-12 Program.” It’s the only program of its kind in the state. It’s part of a National Science Foundation effort to put graduate students studying science, technology, engineering and math into K-12 classrooms. And it’s a chance for Iowa State students to inspire school students and their teachers with the …Continue reading “School kids, Iowa State graduate students teach each other lessons in science”
AMES, Iowa — A researcher in food safety and grain quality has joined Iowa State University in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering . Gretchen Mosher, assistant professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering, started in August with duties in teaching and research. “Dr. Mosher’s research and teaching expertise will help our department to continue …Continue reading “Food Safety and Grain Quality Researcher New Iowa State University Professor”
