Monday, October 21, 2024
5:00 – 6:00 pm Registration  CY’S Lounge
5:00 – 7:00 pm Student poster session and social hour | Open to all CY’S Lounge
7:00 – 9:00 pm Dinner  |  Open to all registrant’s  Reiman Ballroom
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
7:30 am – 3:00 pm CoMFRE Open Meeting Reiman Ballroom
7:30 – 8:15 am Registration and Networking  |  Coffee and pastries
8:15 – 8:30 am Welcome 
Ted Heindel; CoMFRE Director
8:30 – 9:15 am The Mysterious Case of the Sticky DDGS: A Decades-Long Thriller on the Trail to Understanding the Flowability Problem with Ethanol Coproducts
Kurt Rosentrater; Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, ISU
9:15 – 10:00 am “Advancing Scale-up of Bioindustrial Manufacturing”
Penny Norquist; Program Director, BioMADE
10:00 – 10:15 am Break
10:15 – 11:00 am “The AFRL Front Door”
Amanda Ridge; Acting Deputy Director, AFRL Regional Network – Midwest
11:00 – 11:30 am NSF CAREER AWARDEE: “Electrostatic Levitation Integrated with Scattering Techniques for Structural Studies of Soft Matter”
John Lee:: Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, ISU
11:30 – 12:00 pm NSF CAREER AWARDEE: “Using Multiphase Flows to Manufacture Graded Electronic Materials by Aerosol Jet Printing”
Ethan Secor: Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, ISU
12:00 – 12:45 pm Lunch
12:45 – 1:30 pm blank Space t “Spatiotemporal Measurements of Heterogeneous Explosive Fireballs”
Anthony LoCurto: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head
1:30 – 1:40 pm Poster winners announced
1:40 – 2:00 pm CoMFRE Overview and Capabilities
Ted Heindel, CoMFRE Director
2:00 – 2:15 pm Closing Remarks
2:30 – Optional Laboratory Tours