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After over 40 years at Iowa State, Yong Chin Pak, known as Grandmaster Pak, will be retiring this May. Pak grew up in Korea as the youngest child of eight, and for a while, his childhood consisted of the Korean War. In 6th grade, Pak lost both of his parents within three months of each other and he became very ill and weak, as did much of his family. He knew he needed to do something about his health in order to get stronger and essentially stay alive. Pak started judo, taekwondo and karate in the seventh grade with the support of his third-oldest sister, who practically raised him after his par-
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ents’ death. Eventually, Pak went to college at the Yong In Un, formerly known as the Korean Judo College. From there he graduated with a bachelors degree of science in physical education, was elected student government president and continued his training with judo, taekwondo and karate. The next chapter of Pak’s life consisted of serving as the Korean Secret Service’s self-defense instructor. With an extensive background in martial arts, Pak then decided to train for the Olympics. He made the top four in the Olympic trials for his team and he only had one more round to go to see if he would be participating in the Olympics when he received an opportunity to travel to the United States. “As a young boy, I had always seen Americans in Korea who were trying to bring us food and things to help our economy. I always asked, ‘Mommy, mommy, who are those people and where do they come from?’
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ISU will begin installing new phone system Update will save money, provide improvements By Brian.Day @iowastatedaily.com This summer, Iowa State will be replacing its old telephone system with “the cloud.” The switch will be made between May 1 and July 1, just in time for the expiration of the current system on July 1. Information Technology Services has been looking into a system to replace the current one for about a year, since the old system is expiring. The initial cost to replace the telephones is estimated at about $1.5 million with an added $50,000 to connect the phones to Ames-area phone companies. However, Iowa State is expected to save about $600,000 per year after making the switch. Almost every campus telephone is going to be replaced, including the phones that are in dorm
lobbies and in dens. This comes to about 8,000 phones. 1,000 phones will be replaced per week for eight weeks beginning on May 1. “Beginning in May, users will begin to see new telephone sets being deployed on campus, and the goal is to have everyone moved to the new system by July 1,” said Jen Lohrbach, senior systems analyst for IT Services and a contributor in the transition project. The cloud is traditionally thought of as a virtual space where you can back up music, movies and other important files without the fear of losing them. Recently, the cloud has been making a transition into the telecommunications field. A cloud-based phone system is a relatively costeffective system and is an up-and-coming trend with a lot of companies and businesses. “Cloud-based communication is [a] costeffective alternative to traditional voice phone
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File photo/Iowa State Daily Students and community members visit displays during the Mechanical Engineering Design Expo on December 6, 2011. The exposition will take place again on Tuesday in Howe Hall.
Engineering students design global projects Students’ projects attempt to solve industrial problems By Mike.Randleman @iowastatedaily.com An anti-mosquito water agitator, a paddle wheel generator and a high leverage wheelchair will be among the more than 70 projects on display at the Spring Mechanical Engineering Design Expo. The event will take place from noon to 4 p.m. at the Howe Hall atrium on Tuesday. “ME 415 is entirely sponsored projects from Iowa companies, from connections with the Center for Industrial Research and Service, or internal projects that are associated with certain clubs with outside funding,” said William Ross Morrow, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and co-creator of the exposition. “Engineers, mechanical engineers in partic-
ular, go out into industry and often have to work with a variety of different engineers and people in all sorts of disciplines. Companies are interested in hiring people that have that experience already,” Morrow said. Nearly half of the projects found at the exposition will come from Mechanical Engineering 270, a sophomore-oriented course. The designated theme that the students in the class were given was to create a design for developing regions around the globe. “We call the project design a microeconomy kit. That’s something that should not only be a product or service or system that helps improve the quality of life for a region, but also creates economic activity,” said Morrow. One project is an anti-mosquito water agitator, which will aim to help regions of Africa suffering from widespread cases of malaria. The agitator “aerates water and agitates it
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