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Vol.81 No.2, 2009
Many Hands
It’s expertise 100 years in the making.
From the early days of Ohio State’s College of Engineering, education and industry partnerships guided student instruction and faculty research. Today, the situation is no different, except that nearly a century of experience has provided lessons that the college has applied to define success in such collaborations.
Full Circle
When Bruce Lavash and Shellie Porter graduated from the College of Engineering, they found their first jobs by visiting the college’s Engineering Career Services office.
Now, having established successful careers at Procter & Gamble, they’re back on campus, looking for employees of their own.
To Mars Via the ’Shoe
Future space missions to Mars could give us much better pictures of the red planet due to professor Rongxing (Ron) Li’s work on a new camera system that increases the speed and quality of panoramic imaging.
Li, professor of civil and environmental engineering and geodetic science, and his research team have been working on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover mission and recently joined the European Space Agency mission ExoMars, which will launch a Mars mission with a rover of its own in 2013. Li will work on the science team for the PanCam instrument, which will let the ExoMars rover take 3-D panoramas of the red planet.
Dogged Determination for Man’s Best Friends
Beth Blostein hangs out with a pretty motley crowd. In fact, the associate professor of architecture has been known to mix it up with some pretty fuzzy characters. But not to worry, she doesn’t run with this pack on the Ohio State campus — she’s a volunteer at the Franklin County Dog Shelter.
Blostein first became involved with the shelter when she came across its Web site and saw the more than 300 dogs listed for adoption.
