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Iowa engineers’ octopus-like design improves underwater vehicle maneuverability

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Engineering for human health

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Biomedical imaging and computational modeling

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Medical technologies and device design

Worthington Biomedical Engineering Research

Precision bioengineering and regenerative medicine

Engineering for the environment

Harwood

Environmental fluid dynamics

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Environmental monitoring and analysis

Solar panels

Sustainable systems and technologies

Engineering for intelligent systems

Bill Bangel PhD student and Xuan Song

Advanced manufacturing and materials

The most recent addition to the fleet of research vehicles is an automated Ford Transit being used to test automated driving systems (ADS) on rural roads

Autonomous and intelligent systems

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Data science and computing

Departments

Centers and institutes

$ 52M

in research expenditures

2023-24

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111

faculty members

2024

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Two students working in a lab

202

PhD students enrolled

2023-24

Researchers in a helicopter

72

MS students enrolled

2023-24