111
Engineering faculty
96 Tenure-track faculty
15 Instructional-track faculty
$511k
Research productivity
per tenure-track faculty member
2
National Academy of Engineering members
8
Named and distinguished chairs
15
Named and distinguished professorships
3
Named and distinguished faculty fellows
Making Headlines
Rachel Vitali, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is working to improve student career opportunities in the U.S. Navy by expanding Iowa’s Naval Sciences and Technology certificate – one of the few of its kind in academia – to include human performance as a specialization area. Understanding human performance is often critical to the success of naval operations.
Xuan Song, associate professor of industrial and systems engineering and faculty affiliate of the Iowa Technology Institute, won a competitive Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program award to advance research of additive manufacturing of energetic materials. The program aims to “discover, shape, champion, and transition high-risk research that will positively impact the future Air and Space Forces.”
Matthew McGill, professor of chemical and biochemical engineering and faculty affiliate of the Iowa Technology Institute, is leading a research team building capabilities to make Iowa a destination for measuring atmospheric and environmental data crucial for understanding effects of climate change. His three-year, $1.2 million project is funded by Iowa’s P3 program for strategic campus initiatives.
Xiaodong Wu, professor of electrical and computer engineering and faculty affiliate of the Iowa Technology Institute, is principal investigator of a $1.7 million National Institutes of Health grant to advance understanding of Takotsubo, in which patients suffer from a weakened heart as the result of severe emotional or physical stress, such as the loss of a loved one. The condition has been dubbed “broken-heart syndrome.”