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Engineering Ranked 20Th Among Public Universities Iowa State Daily, September 2013 Iowa State Daily, 2013 9-26-2013 Iowa State Daily (September 26, 2013) Iowa State Daily Follow this and additional works at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowastatedaily_2013-09 Recommended Citation Iowa State Daily, "Iowa State Daily (September 26, 2013)" (2013). Iowa State Daily, September 2013. 7. http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowastatedaily_2013-09/7 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State Daily, 2013 at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Iowa State Daily, September 2013 by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013 | Volume 209 | Number 23 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890. | A 2010-11 ACP Pacemaker Award winner Jake Miller/Iowa State Daily ISU engineering students flock out of Hoover Hall after class. U.S. News & World Report’s placing put the engineering program 35th overall when compared to all national universities. Cyclone Spotlight Engineering ranked 20th Chris Biagini, among public universities intern for By Katie.Grunewald U.S. News takes all of the world, its an important recruit- @iowastatedaily.com numbers and rankings and puts ing tool.” Engineering them together to establish the Wilson agreed, but thinks MAMF Iowa State’s College of rankings there are several other tools the program Engineering has been ranked “Some people will say these college can use when it comes to By Maggie.McGinity 20th among public universities. rankings don’t really matter, recruiting new students. rankings @iowastatedaily.com U.S. News & World Report’s and some people say it’s great,” “We do a lot of recruiting, 2013 “America’s Best Colleges” Wilson said. “Look at our num- and we have this information ■ Iowa State’s College of Engineering Chris Biagini, senior ranking have been announced, bers this year. We hit a record. on our college website, we put is ranked 20th. in journalism and mass and the College of Engineering Anytime there is a ranking, you that up right away,” Wilson said. communication, will help ■ moved up from 22nd to 20th obviously want to be ranked “Sometimes, we quote these The biological and agricultural run the Maximum Ames among other public universities high.” ranking in our recruitment ma- engineering program is ranked Music Festival as an in- who offer a doctorate degree in In biological and agricul- terials. It’s always something that fourth among public universities tern for Maximum Ames the highest level. tural engineering, Iowa State is we’re proud of, but it’s not some- and fourth among all national Records. The 130-band, “There are a ton of rankings ranked fourth among all national thing that we rely on to promote universities. 20-venue celebration of published, and there are two universities and fourth among our college.” ■ The materials engineering program music happening this different rankings that we re- public universities. In materials When asked what the other is ranked ninth among public Thursday through Sunday. ally pay attention to,” said Ann engineering, Iowa State is ranked deans and other college lead- universities and 15th among all Biagini will graduate in Wilson, director of engineering ninth among public universi- ers saw in Iowa State’s engineer- national universities. December and is interning college relations. “The under- ties and 15th among all national ing program, Wilson described In March, U.S. News and World Report at Maximum Ames for his graduate rankings that come out universities. what the college itself was most will release their graduate program required journalism-based in September, and the gradu- Gary Mirka, associate dean proud. rankings. internship. ate rankings that come out in of undergraduate and graduate “We’re really proud of our in- March.” educations for the used when re- ternational reputation, the aca- How did you get your When compared to all of the cruiting prospective students. demics that we offer our students internship with Maximum national universities, U.S. News “We will boast that we have and the 95 percent career place- nition of a culmination of hard Ames Records? ranks Iowa State’s undergradu- a high quality undergraduate ment rate that we have when work by faculty and students,” I feel like a big part of ate engineering program 35th program that is just not from students when they graduate,” Mirka said. “This was also dem- it for me this time was just overall — an eight-way tie — an the state of Iowa, but a regional Wilson said. onstrated in the fantastic career being persistent. I know improvement from 39th last year. school that also has a high in- The College of Engineering fair that just ended [Tuesday] sometimes students are Wilson explained the pro- ternational student population,” is not the only ISU college ranked where there was a record num- worried about contacting cess of getting these rankings to- Mirka said. “When we have a by U.S. News, and the university ber of companies and a record somebody too much. Just gether and published consists of publication like U.S. News that’s as a whole has been ranked in the number of students who partici- being persistent and then other deans and college leaders able to publicize to the world top 50. pated; it shows that it all goes full like loving music and be- voting. the quality of our college to the “This is a really nice recog- circle.” ing passionate about it and about what they do just helped out a ton. That’s what they do, they’re huge- ly creative guys. What do you do at Bleyer puts spin on Constitution Harry Potter lives on Maximum Ames? So far, I’ve had to do all through students, kinds of different stuff. We have the festival starting in Emmy winner a few days, so a lot of it has sports, academics been geared towards that. talks politics But things are going to be By Lissandra.Villa cluding even a chal- changing a little bit post- By Devon.Jefferson @iowastatedaily.com lenge in Cedar Rapids, festival. Stuff that I have @iowastatedaily.com Iowa. According to done and will continue to The Boy Who the American Library do is social media things Satire reporting, es- Lived. Hogwarts. Association website, and when people buy stuff pecially political reporting Platform 9 3/4. All of the series ranked in off our site, get it out. If are OK to infuse together these are terms famil- the top-10 challenged people buy stuff in Ames, now. Kevin Bleyer former iar to people who have book lists in 2001, 2002 we actually hand-deliver it. writer of political shows read the Harry Potter and 2003. I co-wrote our newsletter, “Politically Incorrect,” books, which first ap- “Most of the chal- and I’ve done a couple of “Dennis Miller” and peared in the late ‘90s lenges to the Harry blog posts and news releas- “The Daily Show with Jon and became a seven Potter series were es and stuff. A lot of it has Stewart” has been bring- book series that has in made when the first also just been street team ing the satirical approach many ways influenced several books came kind of stuff, going around to political news shows for the generation of stu- out,” Yager said. “Some with posters and handbills more than a decade and, dents at Iowa State. of those challenges more recently, shedding “Not everybody were from people who SPOTLIGHT p10>> light on some of the most has read them. Not ev- were culturally, usually controversial topics in erybody cares to read religiously, conserva- America, the Constitution. them. But, it is surpris- tive who have a literal MAMF Profiles A multiple Emmy ing what a kind of com- reading of some Old Read these MAMF bands’ award-winning writer, mon denominator the Testament passages.” profiles online: Kevin Bleyer, will be giv- books are,” said Susan The Harry Potter ■ The Pines Photo courtesy of Pat Miller ing a lecture about the Yager, associate profes- movies first started ■ BeJae Fleming Constitution on Thursday, Winner of multiple Emmys, satire reporter Kevin Bleyer is sor of English. coming out in 2001, in celebration of his book’s promoting his book “Me, the People.” Bleyer spoke of how he Yager teaches an when most traditional ■ Greg Brown and Bo Ramsey set out to become a “real journalist” instead of an engineer. success, “Me The People: Honors seminar on age college students ■ Lipstick Homicide One Man’s Selfless Quest to Harry Potter that in the were in elementary ■ The Meat Puppets Rewrite the Constitution at Stanford University, try- specifically musical the- past has been filled in school. A total of eight ■ of The United States of ing, but struggling, to fit in ater and creative writing, under a minute when movies were made. Eros and the Eschaton America” in the Great Hall with his fellow engineer- vastly different from the registration opens. “I wanted to learn ■ The Hood Internet in the Memorial Union. ing peers as well as trying life of engineering. The series has how to read, so I could ■ MAMF Variety Show When reminiscing on to fit the career of an en- Around this time, his been challenged sev- learn to read Harry ■ Plus 100 more bands his days in college, Kevin gineer into his life. He was eral times from many throughout Ames was an engineering major very much into the arts, BLEYER p10 >> different places, in- BOOKS p10 >> 2 | NEWS | Iowa State Daily | Thursday, Sept.
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