“The new element to the model is taking information from 3D CT scans showing lung volume and transferring that information to a model that will show these same characteristics in 2D images,” says Ching-Long Lin, Edward M. Mielnik and Samuel R. Harding professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering at Iowa.

The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) has selected the winners of fourteen awards that recognize exceptional researchers, scholars, innovators, students, and administrators, as a part of the annual Discovery and Innovation awards program.

Jun Wang, professor of chemical and biochemical engineering and James E. Ashton Professor in Engineering in the College of Engineering, has been part of NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution (TEMPO) mission since its inception in 2012.