Bobbi Alkire Noe has recently joined The Ohio State University Industry Liaison Office (ILO) as Associate Director. In this role, she will foster expansion of the ILO mission, which is to link business and industry needs to the university’s immense assets and create sustainable innovations, new partnerships, and expand the research enterprise. Ms. Noe holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Ohio State and has spent the majority of her career with Owens Corning (OC). She holds five patents and is the inventor of numerous trade secrets.
Following their participation in the tradeshow, NPE 2009, and the “The Ohio Polymer Summit” sponsored by PolymerOhio in 2010, three French competitive clusters (IAR, Elastopole, and Plastipolis), associated under the name of France Green Plastics, wanted to continue forging the bonds created with American polymer industry organizations and their industrial collaborators.