Cory Berkland (BSChE’98) and Devin Shepard (BSChE’97) will receive the 2013 Professional Progress in Engineering Award from the College of Engineering at the Marston Club Dinner on April 18. The award was created to recognize outstanding professional progress, personal development, and distinguished community service by engineering alumni under the age of 46.
Berkland is a professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Kansas. He received MS and PhD degrees from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. His lab studies colloids, polymers, and biomaterials. Berkland is also a co-founder of Orbis Biosciences and Savara Pharmaceuticals.
Shepard is the founder and president of Supply Chain Acuity, a management consulting firm focused on supply chain strategy and end-to-end planning located in Atlanta, Georgia. He has managed numerous global supply chain projects with clients ranging in size from the US Government and Fortune 500 companies to small private companies. Shepard has been a guest speaker at several conferences and collaborated with universities on different research topics. Prior to starting his own business in 2002, he worked with A.T. Kearney and Ernst &Young, GE Healthcare, The Dow Chemical Company, and International Paper where he held positions in service marketing, process systems engineering, and research and development.
Sadanand D. Joshi (PhDME’78) will also be recognized at the Marston Club Dinner for receiving the Anston Marston Medal during the Iowa State University Alumni Association Honors and Awards Ceremony last fall.