Technology and the Globalization of Opportunity
Mary Jane Hagenson
Wednesday, 07 Oct 2009 at 6:00 pm – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall
Mary Jane Hagenson is vice president of technology at Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC. She previously served as vice president of specialty chemicals and specialty plastics for Phillips Petroleum Company, now ConocoPhillips. Hagenson holds seven U.S. patents and was nominated for Phillips' Inventor of the Year in 1991. She earned an MS and PhD in biomedical engineering from Iowa State University. Before joining Phillips, she had research assignments at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Iowa, and Iowa State University. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series and the Women in STEM Series.Cosponsored By:
- College of Engineering
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Deere & Company
- Rockwell Collins
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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