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Companies developed by Iowa State engineers win Pappajohn prizes
Front row, from left: Jim Oliver, Paula Wickham (Think Safe), Atul Kelkar, and Jerry Vogel. Back row, from left: Paul Fisher, Mike Upah (Iowa State Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship), and Curt Carlson (BodyViz).
BodyViz, an Ames virtual reality company developed by Jim Oliver, director of Iowa State’s Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC) and professor of mechanical engineering, and Eliot Winer, associate VRAC director and associate professor of mechanical engineering, took the top prize of $25,000 in the 2009 John Pappajohn Iowa Business Plan Competition. In addition, Innovative Energy Solutions, Inc., founded by Atul Kelkar, a professor of mechanical engineering, and Jerald Vogel, an emeritus professor in aerospace engineering, received the second-place prize of $15,000; and Energy Control Technologies, founded by Paul Fisher (BSChE'87/MBA'96), shared the 3rd-place prize of $10,000 with Think Safe. (News link)
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