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. Both students are work in a research lab under the mentorship of Fatima Toor, Lowell G. Battershell Chair in Laser Engineering and ECE associate professor.

Dillman, an undergraduate, won first place, in a poster presentation, and Hagen, and graduate student, won third place.