Eastern Iowa Community Colleges and Iowa State University are hosting a series of FREE webinars on integrating the latest research on energy into the classroom. The 60-minute webinars for high school and community college faculty will present the research, free curriculum, and a hands-on activity. The spring webinars will be held from 4:30 to 5:30 pm EDT on February 20, March 28, and April 23, 2013.
This project is funded by the United States Department of Agriculture. Award No. 2012-38414-19559
Webinars
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Wind Power: An Attractive Source of Energy for Iowa and the U.S.
Speaker: Dr. Eugene Tackle, Professor of Atmospheric Science and Agricultural Meteorology, Iowa State University
Title: Wind Power: An Attractive Source of Energy for Iowa and the U.S.
Date: Wednesday February 20th
Time: 3:30-4:30 central time
Biography:
Eugene has a BA degree in physics and math from Luther College and PhD from the Iowa State University Department of Physics. He joined the ISU faculty in 1971 in the Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences and the Department of Agronomy. He is director of the Climate Science Program at Iowa State University that currently is centrally involved in developing future scenarios of regional climate change and impacts for the US. He also serves on numerous national and international boards and committees, including Atmospheric Science Editor of Earth Science Reviews, Associate Editor of Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, and Coordinating Lead Co-author on the agriculture chapter of the National Climate Assessment. He has over 200 publications and research presentations on topics such as climate change, turbulent flow through agricultural shelterbelts, and wind energy. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.
Metabolic Engineering of Microbes for the Production of Biorenewable Fuels and Chemicals
Speaker: Dr. Laura Jarboe, Iowa State University Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering
Title: Metabolic Engineering of Microbes for the Production of Biorenewable Fuels and Chemicals
Date: Thursday March 28th
Time: 3:30-4:30 central time
Biography:
Dr. Jarboe has a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kentucky and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. She joined the ISU faculty in 2008 as a Chemical and Biological Engineering assistant professor. She is a member of the Toxicology Interdepartmental Program and is as member of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program at Iowa State University. She has published several publications on topics such as molecular and biochemical reactions. She has previously been invited to speak at several conferences on topics that include biocatalyst engineering and chemical production opportunities and challenges. She is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Society for Industrial Microbiology, American Chemical Society and the Iowa Academy of Sciences.
Building Science
Speaker: Ulrike Passe, Dipl.-Ing. Assistant Professor of Architecture Iowa State University, Director of the Center for Building Energy Research
Title: Building Science
Date: April 23rd
Time: 3:30-4:30 central time
Biography:
Ulrike Passe is Assistant Professor of Architecture at Iowa State University since 2007 and Director of their Center for Building Energy Research since 2008.
Ulrike studied architecture at the Technical University Berlin in Germany and at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London in the UK. She is a licensed architect in Germany since 1993, a founding partner of Passe and Kaelber Architects, recipient of the 1998 Bund Deutscher Architekten Young Architect’s Award (Hans Schaefers Prize). She was elected into the Bund Deutscher Architekten in 2005. Before joining Iowa State University Ulrike was also academic faculty at the Technical University Berlin and the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.
Ulrike’s particular research interest lies in the relationship of architectural space, energy transfer and natural air movement. Her work has been funded by the Boston Society of Architects and the Iowa Energy Center. She led Iowa State’s 2009 Solar Decathlon team funded partially by the US Department of Energy and now leads the building science plank in the Iowa NSF EPSCoR project: Harnessing Energies from the Biosphere, which develops the Interlock House and high schools into community labs for energy efficiency research.
Ulrike Passe received the College of Design faculty award for excellence in 2009, the Iowa State University Alumni Association Impact Award in 2010 and recently a United States Green Building Council scholarship to attend Greenbuild 2012 in San Francisco for her work with the Center for Green School’s Research to Practice (R2P2) Program. Ulrike has published her work in internationally recognized peer-reviewed journals like ARQ (Architectural Research Quarterly) and Building Simulation Journal and lectured at various international academic conferences and workshops.