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Iowa Engineering Fiddelke alum named Target CEO

Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Target named longtime company veteran Michael Fiddelke as its CEO, replacing retail industry bigwig Brian Cornell, effective February 1, 2026. Fiddelke earned a degree in industrial engineering at University of Iowa.
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Iowa Engineering boosting state’s manufacturing on global stage

Sunday, August 17, 2025
University of Iowa engineering professors and their students are developing next-generation manufacturing systems to make Iowa more competitive in the global marketplace with help from a $1.3 million National Science Foundation EPSCoR Graduate Fellow Program grant.
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Iowa Engineering announces new faculty hires

Tuesday, August 5, 2025
The University of Iowa College of Engineering has announced the hiring of new faculty members for the 2025-26 academic year.
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Engineering student awarded Gilman Scholarship to study and intern abroad

Monday, June 16, 2025
Out of thousands of applicants nationwide, nine University of Iowa students, including a second-year industrial engineering student from Iowa City, have been awarded the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, which provides up to $5,000 to support study or internship experiences abroad.
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ISE 5000 GRADUATE SEMINAR --DR. Shancong Mou

Thursday, February 19, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center

Join us in welcoming Shancong Mou, an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, to the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Graduate Seminar.

Dr. Mou will present his seminar titled "AI/ML-enabled Data Fusion for Complex Engineering Systems." He will start with an overview of the research landscape, followed by a discussion on AI/ML-enabled data fusion, demonstrated through several key examples:

· Surface...

Engineering Events

Design Challenges: Shoe Design

Thursday, February 26, 2026 5:00pm to 7:30pm
Seamans Center

Grab your friends and dive into two exciting hands-on challenges! No need to prepare or plan ahead — all materials will be provided — and, yes, there will be pizza both nights. Show up ready to build, create, eat pizza, and have fun. Are you up for the challenge?

Can you design a winter-ready shoe using everyday items? Bring your creativity and teamwork to make something impressive and useful!

This event is sponsored by the Lichtenberger Engineering Library, KEEN, NEXUS, and the Hanson Center for...

Library Workshop: Creating Citations with Endnote

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Seamans Center

An introduction to the desktop version of EndNote will be covered in this workshop. The software is freely available to graduate students, faculty, and staff. EndNote is a citation management tool that assists with importing, organizing, sharing, and managing citations and documents, as well as creating correctly formatted in-text citations and bibliographies in almost any style—in seconds. Presented by Marina Zhang, engineering and informatics librarian at the Lichtenberger Engineering Library.

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