Ahn, Rozier become tenured faculty members
Author: John Burnett-Larkins
The department congratulates Benjamin Ahn and Kristin-Yvonne Rozier, who were promoted to tenured positions effective July 15, 2021.
Benjamin Ahn was promoted to associate professor with tenure. Ahn specializes in developing engineering students’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes through high-quality engineering education experiences. His research comprises three main streams: 1) how to prepare engineering students for the engineering workplace (workforce development and professional skills development); 2) how to support the inquiry, investigation, and discovery skills of engineering students in research settings through the process of mentoring; and 3) how to effectively teach engineering students both technical knowledge and problem-solving skills (teaching and learning mechanisms).
He received a Ph.D. in engineering education from Purdue University in 2014, an M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering from Purdue in 2009 and a B.E. (1st Class Honors) in Aerospace Engineering, University of New South Wales, in 2007.
In 2020 Ahn received the College of Engineering’s Early Career Achievement in Teaching Award and is a three-time Miller Faculty Fellow at Iowa State (2016, 2019, 2020).
Black and Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellow Kristin-Yvonne Rozier was promoted to associate professor with tenure.
Rozier operates the Laboratory for Temporal Logic in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. Her work deals with advanced automated reasoning techniques – algorithms and tools that filter what we want vs. what we don’t want – that can apply to things like security systems and critical infrastructure. Her research focuses on formal methods, verification and validation of safety-critical systems; design-time checking of system logic and system requirements with applications in aerospace systems, biomedical privacy, secure protocols and more.
In 2020 she was named Black and Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellow, one of only two individuals at Iowa State to receive the honor that year.