Through research, the longtime University of Iowa professor of civil and environmental engineering has contributed to the wider acceptance of anaerobic biotechnology as a component of municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants.

The former chief software data architect at Boeing has prioritized developing leadership and STEM skills in diverse, underserved students.

Highland serves as the sole Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force’s Blue Horizons Senior Developmental Education Fellow at the Center for Strategy and Technology at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. 

As co-founder and director of Cardio Diagnostics, Dogan has led the company from breakthrough innovation to national commercialization and public listing. 

While in senior engineering and facilities leadership roles at John Deere, Driscoll directed large-scale capital projects across North America and six additional countries.

As operations manager at Banta (later acquired by RR Donnelley), a printing and logistics services company, Aden was responsible for all production, warehouse, and industrial engineering functions on the site in Houston, Texas.

The retired technology executive has over 40 years of experience in communications, specializing in IP routing, optical systems and components, and intelligent optical interconnects, including leading Acacia Communications from startup to acquisition.

Kargarzadeh is the founder, president, and CEO of Engineered Plastic Components, a leading manufacturer of injection-molded plastic products serving the automotive, appliance, medical, and consumer product industries.

Nylen co-authored the textbook Neural Data Science and has been with the National Basketball Association since 2019, where he is currently the vice president of data science.