Two CCEE graduate students have been honored with Graduate Research Excellence Awards from the Iowa State University Graduate College.
Christopher Koza, a Master’s student studying under Vlasta Klima Balloun Professor Johannes van Leeuwen, received a Fall 2012 Graduate Research Excellence Award. Koza’s work was in dewatering fungal biomass from novel corn ethanol bioprocess. Below is a video that describes this process, featuring an interview with Koza.
“Turning Ethanol Waste into Animal Feed” YouTube video
Theodore Bechtum, a Fall 2012 Master’s graduate in geotechnical engineering, studied under Black and Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor Jeramy Ashlock. Bechtum won the Graduate Research Excellence Award for automating the Borehole Shear Test, a soil strength test originally developed by Anson Marston Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard Handy. In January, Bechtum starts his professional career with Burns & McDonnell in Kansas City, Mo.
Read more about the Automated Borehole Shear Test here: https://news.engineering.iastate.edu/2012/11/30/grad-student-professor-advance-soil-test-technology-invented-by-emeritus-professor-richard-handy/.