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Awards and Honors

Extension Ventilation Team Wins Awards

Several individuals from our department were recognized at the 2004 University Extension Awards Convocation. The Achievement by an Educational Team Award is given to recognize a single outstanding ISU Extension effort by a team in delivery of educational programming, carried out with much originality or creativity. This year’s award winning team was Managing Your Unseen Employees: The Ventilation System. Individuals participating from ABE were associate professor Jay Harmon and ag engineering field specialists Kapil Arora, Greg Brenneman, Kris Kohl, Dan Meyer, and Shawn Shouse. Non-ISU participants were Richard Stowell and Mike Brumm from the University of Nebraska, Lee Johnston and Larry Jacobson from the University of Minnesota, and Steve Pohl and Robert Thaler from South Dakota State University.

Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ABE) Learning Community
The ABE Learning Community faculty and staff received the ISU Learning Community Institute’s 2004 Outstanding Innovation Award. Members of the ABE team include ABE assistant professor Tom Brumm, ABE associate professor Steve Mickelson (a multiple-year recipient of the award), and Dave Fisher and Tom Bowers, English doctoral candidates. We are very proud of this fact considering that Iowa State's learning communities were rated among the top five in the country in U.S. News and World Report's recent "Best Colleges" rankings. The team pioneered a new approach to first-year instruction by developing an electronic case-study exercise that simulates real-world experience.

Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Technology:

Thomas J. Brumm, assistant professor, was one of 61 faculty from higher education institutions throughout the world who received the Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Technology presented at the Fifteenth International Conference on College Teaching and Learning.


Professional Advancement:
Several ABE faculty were promoted in the past year:
Bill Batchelor, from associate professor to professor
Stuart Birrell, from assistant professor to associate professor with tenure. We are very proud of Dr. Batchelor and Dr. Birrell for their scholarly accomplishments.

Master Farmer Exceptional Service Award:

Stewart W. Melvin, professor emeritus, received the Master Farmer Exceptional Service Award from Wallace’s Farmer magazine at the Master Farmers of Iowa spring meeting. This award honors his career of helping farmers throughout his 32 years of Extension, his teaching at Iowa State University.

Jim Baker Recognized for his Water Quality Contributions:

James Baker, University Professor Emeritus in agricultural and biosystems engineering, received the 2003 Governor’s Iowa Environmental Excellence Award – Special Recognition in Water Quality.

National Organization Chaired by ABE Professor
ABE Extension Safety Specialist Chuck Schwab is the president of the National Institute for Farm Safety (NIFS). NIFS is an organization dedicated to the professional development of agricultural safety and health professionals who provide leadership in preventing agricultural injuries and illnesses.

Awards Received at the 2004 Iowa State University Convocation
ABE department chair Ramesh Kanwar received the International Service Award from President Gregory Geoffroy. The award recognizes a faculty member for outstanding international service in teaching, research or administration within the United States or abroad. He was elected a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

Howard Butler, BSAST’98, received the Professional and Scientific (P&S) Outstanding New Professional Award. Butler is employed as a systems analyst for the Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology.

Darren Jarboe, program coordinator for the Iowa Grain Quality Initiative (IGQI) earned the P&S Excellence Award. Jarboe provides project administration, strategic planning and financial management, and works with the external advisory committee for the Initiative

Awards Received at College of Engineering Convocation

ABE associate scientist H. Mark Hanna received the College’s Superior Engineering Extension Award. Hanna educates Iowans about agricultural power and machinery management issues such as soil compaction, crop residue, tillage, and machine safety.



Associate professor Steve Mickelson won the Superior Engineering Advisor Award. Dr. Mickelson advises 85 students individually and provides administration for over 300 while still maintaining a teaching and research appointment.



 

Contact: Sue Ziegenbusch, (515) 294-0462 or
email sziegenb@iastate.edu

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