Kurt A. Rosentrater

Dr. Kurt Rosentrater is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University, as well as Food Science and Human Nutrition. He focuses on grain and cereal science, feed, food, and fuel processing from grains, value-added product development, modeling and simulation of processing systems, plant layout, and process design. Prior to his work at Iowa State, he was a Lead Scientist with the United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service, where he led the agency’s distillers grains research program. Before that, he was an assistant professor at Northern Illinois University in the Department of Engineering and Industrial Technology, and he also worked for a design-build engineering firm where he was responsible for facility, process, and equipment design.