A Success Enhancement Program after the First Test in Freshman Engineering

D. Raj Raman is professor and Associate Chair for Teaching in the Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering Department at Iowa State University, where he is also University Education Program Director and Testbed Champion for the NSF Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals and Director of Graduate Education for the Interdepartmental Graduate Minor in Biorenewable Chemicals. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in agricultural and biological engineering from Cornell University. He became a licensed Professional Engineer while a faculty member at the University of Tennessee, where he co-taught in the Engage Freshmen Engineering Program with Richard M. Bennett. His research has focused on instrumentation and modeling of biological systems, and also on waste treatment and biomass to energy systems. He is interested in the relationship between fundamental rate constants in biological systems and the overall process economics and life-cycle impacts of those systems.