Iowa State University announced a new gift commitment from Sukup Manufacturing Company at the September 30 groundbreaking for the second phase of the Biorenewables Complex.Sukup Manufacturing Company’s gift commitment builds on the firm’s initial financial support provided in 2007, and completes the private gift portion of the total project. One of the new buildings in …Continue reading “Sukup Manufacturing’s gift commitment to help complete Biorenewables Complex”
Many Iowa State students know the New Hampshire-based company FIRST from their annual FIRST LEGO League (FLL) competition, but one Iowa State alumnus has been working with the company and says there is more to FIRST than playing with building blocks. Nick Skripsky (BSME’08) is the resources coordinator of the FIRST Place center and has …Continue reading “Skripsky building career with FIRST”
Wei Du (PhDAerE’10), Emily Kinser (BSPolS’04/MSMSE’05), Amit Pande (PhDCpE’10), Jodi Prosise (BSME’03), and Andrew Riha (BSCpE’05/MSCpE’08) have been named Iowa STATEment Makers. The honor recognizes the early personal and professional accomplishments and contributions to society of Iowa State University’s young alumni (graduates under 32 years of age). Read more about them and the other 2011 …Continue reading “Five CoE alumni named 2011 STATEment Makers”
A partnership between Sukup Manufacturing Co., Sheffield, and the Haiti Relief Fund will put 16 homeless Haitian families in new, all-steel homes. Sukup, the world’s largest family-owned grain bin manufacturer, has worked for more than a year to turn a grain bin into a home, and the owners of the company recently met with the …Continue reading “Sukup donates grain bin houses to Haiti Relief Fund”
Amy Fetters (BSConE’96) is a senior project manager for the Weitz Co. in Des Moines, Iowa. Learn more about her in a Des Moines Register feature.
Valerie Boelman, an industrial engineer with a degree from Iowa State University, leads a four-person department at Iowa Methodist Medical Center that focuses on applying engineering-based process improvement principles to health-care settings. For the past two years, her staff has worked with teams of Iowa State industrial engineering students to perform studies of processes within …Continue reading “IE alum and students help with health-care efficiency”
Andrew McKean, a structural analyst for the John Deere Construction & Forestry Division, Dubuque Works, was honored with the 2010 SAE International/AEM Outstanding Young Engineer Award during the SAE 2010 Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress and Exhibition, held last fall in Rosemont, Ill. McKean holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Iowa State …Continue reading “ME alum wins SAE International/AEM Outstanding Young Engineer Award”
A manager in the local construction industry, Mike Carroll, will serve as head of Iowa Department of Administrative Services, which coordinates resources of state government. Carroll graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Iowa State’s construction engineering program. Read the full story.
A named professorship steeped in history, gifted by an alum with deep family ties to Iowa State, is advancing the work of two prominent engineering researchers. The Vlasta Klima Balloun Professor of Engineering—actually two professorships—is a title now held by Balaji Narasimhan, associate dean for research in the College of Engineering and a professor of …Continue reading “Vlasta Klima Balloun professorships benefit wide-ranging research”
Science Magazine sat down with Iowa State University College of Engineering alum Subra Suresh, MSME’79, after his first week as director of the US National Science Foundation. Click here to read the story. (This link requires a subscription if attempting to view off-campus. When accessed via Iowa State’s network, you can view the article free of …Continue reading “CoE Alum takes the wheel at NSF”
