Jill Schoborg, a chemical and biological engineering senior at Iowa State, has been included in the September, 2015 issue of Chemical Engineering Progress magazine (story here), an official publication of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), after a summer internship experience with the organization in Washington, D.C.
Schoborg is one of three chemical engineering undergraduates from around the nation who took part in the WISE (Washington Internships for Students of Engineering) program from May 31 to August 1. The students prepared and delivered original research papers on public policy topics based on what they learned in their internships. Schoborg studied genetically modified organisms, documented in her paper, “To Label or Not Label: Addressing America’s Genetically Modified Organism Policy.” The interns, along with others sponsored by other engineering organizations, presented their work on Capitol Hill. Their research has been published online in the September, 2015 edition of the WISE Journal of Engineering and Public Policy. Schoborg’s paper is available here.
Schoborg plans to graduate from Iowa State with a degree in chemical engineering in the spring of 2016 and will then pursue a law degree. She has served as vice president of the Iowa State University chapter of AIChE.
The WISE program is held each summer and selects undergraduate engineering students to conduct research on public policy issues in Washington, D.C.