Allen leads Business

This summer, Texas Instruments and Iowa State business and 
engineering graduate students will collaborate to study manu-
facturing plants that are streamlining production processes. 
The project brings hands-on experience to students, useful 
business information to Texas Instruments and a smile to Iowa 
State's next business dean, Benjamin Allen.

Meshing textbook theory with real-life practice is what a 
good business education is all about, he says. Iowa State's 
business college must be much like a medical school, he adds, 
linking theory, research and practice.

"We intend to turn out students who have had experiential 
learning oppor-tunities, are comfortable with computers and 
other technology, have a global outlook, and can be both team 
players and leaders."

Allen will become dean of the college in July. At Iowa State, 
he has been interim dean and has headed the department of 
transpor-tation and logistics and the Midwest Trans-portation 
Center. In addition, he has taught at the University of 
Arkansas, Fayetteville; University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign; and Washington State University, Pullman. He was 
staff economist for the Office of Transportation Regulatory 
Policy, U.S. Department of Transportation.

Allen succeeds David Shrock, who is now dean of the College 
of Business Administration at the University of South 
Carolina, Columbia.

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contact:  Internal Communications, (515) 294-3129
updated:  5-25-95