The Iowa State National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) Student Chapter took home third place and the $750 prize at the fourth annual Green Energy Challenge finals in Las Vegas. The team gave an oral presentation of their written plan, a mock energy analysis and retrofit of Hilton Coliseum, to a panel of NECA industry leaders …Continue reading “Iowa State team places 3rd in finals of NECA Green Energy Challenge”
A team of researchers at Iowa State University, led by Vlasta Klima Balloun Professor Hans van Leeuwen, has been awarded the Global Award for Applied Research in the 2012 International Water Association Global Project Innovation Awards (PIA). Their winning project is described as “Water reclamation from ethanol production leftovers with animal feed production using a …Continue reading “Iowa State research team awarded Global Award for Applied Research”
“He has a reputation for his character. He left a legacy here,” says Sheila Kelly, one of the recipients of the 2012 T.J. Good Scholarship. She and Andrew Faust, both civil engineering seniors, are the two receivers of the scholarship honoring the 22-year-old Iowa State civil engineering senior who died suddenly of bacterial meningitis in …Continue reading “Faust, Kelly recipients of 2012 T.J. Good Scholarship”
The Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering welcomed 1974 civil engineering alumnus Robert Paulsen April 23 and 24 as Executive-in-Residence. From a business executive standpoint, he shared his 35 years of industry experience in the civil engineering profession. Paulsen gave a lecture titled, “I’m Now an Engineer…What Else Would I Possibly Need to Know?” …Continue reading “Civil engineering alumnus Robert Paulsen visits as Executive-in-Residence”
