GCSP Related Research in the College

Below is a list of University of Iowa College of Engineering research areas of excellence that relate to each of the 14 Grand Challenges.

Grand Challenge	UI Engineering Research and Programs
	Design of solar cookers (Mechanical Engineering) Materials processing (Mechanical Engineering) Nanoelectronics (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Nanoparticle encapsulation (Chemical and Biochemical Engineering) Optimization of energy systems (Industrial Engineering)
	Impact of fresh water mussels on nitrogen dynamics (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Measurement, modeling and data analysis on atmospheric nitrogen species (Chemical and Biochemical Engineering) Wetlands design for treatment of wastewater for nitrogen removal (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
	Computational genetics (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging) Drug discovery (Biomedical Engineering) Data mining, management of health care systems, sensor based diagnosis and detection (Industrial Engineering) Medical image analysis (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging) Modeling of fluid and solid mechanical phenomena in the human system (Mechanical Engineering)
	Hypervelocity Impact (Mechanical Engineering) Shock-material interactions (Mechanical Engineering)
	Human factors, human-computer interaction (Industrial Engineering) Live Virtual Constructive (LVC) training for aviation (Industrial Engineering, Center for Computer-Aided Design)

	Arsenic in groundwater (IIHR--Hydroscience & Engineering) Biogeochemical cycles of important elements (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Biological wastewater treatment, recycling, and reuse (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Engineers for a Sustainable World Student Chapter Diverse and interacting facets of river science and aquatic ecology (IIHR--Hydroscience & Engineering) Manage production and release of toxins (Civil and Environmental Engineering) PCBs in the Great Lakes (IIHR--Hydroscience & Engineering) Sensors network and digital watershed (IIHR--Hydroscience & Engineering) UI Water Sustainability Initiative
	Computational genetics (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging) Computational modeling of prosthetic devices (Mechanical Engineering) Drug discovery (Biomedical Engineering) Drug delivery (Biomedical Engineering) Drug formulation (Chemical and Biochemical Engineering) Gene therapy (Biomedical Engineering) Medical image analysis (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging) Tissue engineering (Biomedical Engineering)
	Communication (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Network reliability, risk analysis (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering) Network security (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Sensor networks (Electrical and Computer Engineering, IIHR--Hydroscience & Engineering)
	Analytical tools for environmental engineering (Iowa Superfund Basic Research Program) Bioinformatics and computational biology (Biomedical Engineering) Biomechanics (Biomedical Engineering) Biological systems modeling (Biomedical Engineering, IIHR--Hydroscience & Engineering) Data mining, evolutionary computation (Industrial Engineering) Data mining of image/electronic patient information (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging) Develop genetic probes for understanding microbial community dynamics (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Fish passage studies (IIHR--Hydoscience & Engineering) Flood monitoring and prediction (IIHR--Hydroscience & Engineering) Hydrometeorology (IIHR--Hydroscience & Engineering) Large scale computing (Mechanical Engineering) Medical image analysis (Biomedical Engineering) Multiphysics modeling (Mechanical Engineering) Ship Hydrodynamics (IIHR--Hydroscience & Engineering)
	Flows in porous media (Mechanical Engineering) Hydrogen-fueled turbines (Mechanical Engineering) Sequestration in heavily managed landscapes (IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering)
	Design of energy efficient buildings (Mechanical Engineering) Large-scale intelligent systems (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Linking land use to human toxicology (Iowa Superfund Basic Research Program) Network reliability and supply chain management (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering) Sensors and sensor networks (Electrical and Computer Engineering, IIHR--Hydroscience & Engineering) Smart grid (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Advanced structural materials (Mechanical Engineering)
	Aging of brain and mind (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging) Brain image analysis (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging) Neuroergonomic assessment of pilot behavior as a function of simulator fidelity (Industrial Engineering, Center for Computer-Aided Design)
	Medical image analysis-visualization (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging) Motion capture (Center for Computer-Aided Design) Validation (Center for Computer-Aided Design) Virtual reality, human-computer interaction (Industrial Engineering) Whole-body vibration (Center for Computer-Aided Design)