For Ellen Franzenburg, ISU ABE 2013 graduate, her career path all boiled down to one main passion: global agriculture.
Author: Sarah Hays
Changing the Narrative: Distinguished CCEE Alumna Beth Duyvejonck is Building a Better Future for Women in Construction
For more than two decades, Beth Duyvejonck, 1997 Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering (CCEE) graduate, has focused passionately on building a better future for women in the construction industry.
ABE Students Build a CVT Transmission Using Mathematical Models for Capstone Project
This year, seniors Dean Woodwell, Collin Jones and Colin Kyhl built their capstone project for the Cyclone Power Pullers, an engineering club on campus designing a tractor for the ASABE International Quarter Scale Competition.
ABE research using ultraviolet light produces safer, cleaner air that ‘smells like toothpaste’
Breathing cleaner air has become more relevant than ever in the last few years. What if, along with cleaner air, it smelled fresh and minty, too? For Iowa State University Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Professor Jacek Koziel, studying how to have clean air and reduce odor is nothing new. He has been in pursuit of healthy air quality for the last 15 years, using ultraviolet light to filter out airborne pathogens and produce air that ends up smelling like toothpaste.
ABE Alum Mitchell Hora Builds Soil Health Company From the Ground Up
The 19th person in his family line to go to Iowa State, and coming from a seventh generation farm in small-town Iowa, Hora started his adventure in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering only knowing he had an interest in agriculture and a family history at Iowa State. Little did he know that in four years, he would have built an international soil-health business from the ground up.
ISU’s Fluid Power Club Brings Home First Place Title in National Fluid Power Vehicle Challenge
Iowa State University’s Fluid Power team brought home the first place title in the National Fluid Power Association’s Fluid Power Vehicle Challenge last Friday.
‘Cyclone Energy’ Competes in Innovative Design Competition
This year, student chapters in the United States and Canada are participating in the Electrical Contracting Innovation Challenge (ECIC), a design competition challenging teams to solve problems in new, innovative ways.
ABE Provides Free Hazardous Safety Training to Companies and Employees
ISU Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering teaching professor James Wright and associate professor Nir Keren just received an OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor, Susan Harwood Training grant to implement hazard communications and chemical hazards training to ‘prepare employees, supervisors and owners of manufacturing, construction and agricultural companies for regulatory safety requirements, suggestions and strategies for work protection.’
Preparing Communities for Climate Change: CCEE’s Lu Liu Receives Grant to Determine Climate Change Vulnerabilities in Rural and Urban Communities
From small farms to big cities, natural disasters, rising temperatures and other factors of climate change impact everyone. Lu Liu, assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, is using modeling to look into the future on the long-term impacts of climate change for two different ends of the population spectrum: urban and rural communities.
ABE Welcomes New Faculty Member: Bailey Adams
This summer, the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University is welcoming a new faculty member and soon-to-be alum to the department: Bailey Adams.
CCEE Alum and Hubbell Realty CEO Rick Tollakson Drives New Wellness Center for Easterseals Iowa
Tollakson, CEO of Hubbell Realty and 1976 Iowa State University Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering alum, just celebrated his extreme build of the ‘Rick Tollakson Wellness Center,’ a building located in the Easterseals Camp Sunnyside to provide crisis stabilization and outpatient therapy to individuals with brain injuries and/or developmental or intellectual disabilities.
ABE Student Oluwatuyi Olowoyeye Attends World Water Forum in Senegal
Organized once every three years, the World Water Forum is an event focusing on water quality and how to make progress on global water challenges.
CCEE Professor Chuck Jahren Leaves a Legacy Behind After 29 Years at ISU
Charles (Chuck) Jahren, professor in the ISU Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, is retiring this year from the department – but his career and memories here are far from leaving CCEE.
CCEE’s Vern Schaefer Retires after 19 years of Teaching, Research and Service
For Vern Schaefer, ISU Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering professor and ISU alum, leaving Iowa State and the academic engineering world is a huge change, but a chance for reflection on his role in the university’s land-grant motto: teaching, research and service.
CCEE senior Hannah Jeffrey Receives Prestigious Dean’s Student Leadership Award
One of only three students in the College of Engineering, Iowa State University Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering senior Hannah Jeffrey received the College of Engineering Dean’s Student Leadership Award. This award is known for ‘recognizing outstanding leadership by undergraduate engineering students during their junior or senior years,’ and for students who ‘exhibit exemplary leadership in a broader arena than a single department or student organization.’