Engineering News

ECE students make mark at 2025 MATFab Symposium

Friday, April 25, 2025
Joel Dillman and Evan Hagen, electrical and computer engineering (ECE) students, attended the 2025 MATFab Materials Frontier Symposium, held on the University of Iowa campus earlier in April.
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CBE Faculty Spotlight: Hyeongmin Seo

Thursday, April 24, 2025
Hyeongmin Seo is a professor here in the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department. Learn more about Professor Seo and how his career path led him to UI!
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Iowa CBE students find success at ChemE Jeopardy

Friday, April 18, 2025
University of Iowa students in chemical and biochemical engineering participated in the 2025 AIChE student regional conference hosted by the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, on April 11 and 12. 
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Iowa Engineering class inspires planting of new Miyawaki campus forest

University of Iowa will plant a Miyawaki campus forest on Arbor Day, inspired by a presentation by students in the College of Engineering’s Sustainable Systems class.
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Schnieders secures NSF grant to speed up drug development

Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Michael Schnieders, University of Iowa professor of biomedical engineering, is developing new computer models that would speed up development of lifesaving drugs by better predicting how drug formulas will interact with the human body.
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Engineering student, Navy veteran Lutz attends commissioning of USS Iowa

Tuesday, April 15, 2025
University of Iowa junior and U.S. Navy veteran Thomas Lutz attended the commissioning ceremony of the USS Iowa on April 5 in Groton, Connecticut, as a guest of the Crystal Group.
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Schnell takes reins as ITI director

Tom “Mach” Schnell has taken the helm as director of the University of Iowa Technology Institute, effective April 15, succeeding Karim Abdel-Malek, who had led the research institute for 20 years.
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Ahmad, Schilling, Niemeier win Staff Council Awards

Monday, April 7, 2025
Three University of Iowa College of Engineering researchers were honored among this year’s Staff Council Awardees for achievements ranging from excellence in service to accomplishments that significantly benefited the university.
Tom "Mach" Schnell

Schnell wins Regents Award for Faculty Excellence

Monday, April 7, 2025
Tom “Mach” Schnell, University of Iowa professor of industrial and systems engineering and incoming director of the Iowa Technology Institute, is among six faculty members selected by the Iowa Board of Regents for extraordinary contributions and sustained record of excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service.
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Crystal Group sponsors University of Iowa student to attend USS Iowa commissioning

Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Current University of Iowa student and U.S. Navy veteran Thomas Lutz will attend the commissioning ceremony of the USS Iowa April 5 as a guest of Crystal Group.