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Christensen among 4 to win UI’s highest teaching honor

Thursday, February 20, 2025
University of Iowa ECE Professor and DEO Gary Christensen wins the prestigious the President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence, recognizing exceptional and ongoing contributions to student learning and success.
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Dare to Discover campaign highlights engineering students, post docs

Monday, January 27, 2025
Kaleb Young, a University of Iowa PhD student in civil and environmental engineering, working to improve flood forecasting for the state of Iowa, is among 10 engineering students and postdocs highlighted in the Dare to Discover campaign.
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ECE alum wins prestigious IEEE award for signal processing achievements

Friday, January 10, 2025
Kumar Vijay Mishra, who earned a PhD in electrical engineering at University of Iowa in 2015, was selected for the 2024 IEEE SPS Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award.
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Bell on team selected for Innovation in Teaching and Technology Award

Monday, December 9, 2024
Tyler Bell, University of Iowa, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, is part of an interdisciplinary team selected for an Innovation in Teaching and Technology Award to use artificial intelligence to improve behavior intervention.
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Sen Gupta receives two honors from IEEE Oceans Engineering Society 

Thursday, December 5, 2024
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer (IEEE) Oceanic Engineering Society (OES) bestowed two honors on Ananya Sen Gupta, a University of Iowa associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.
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Iowa engineers win $39,500 at Iowa Innovation Challenge

Monday, November 25, 2024
University of Iowa engineering students and a post doctoral scholar were awarded prize money at the Innovation Challenge hosted by the UI John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (Iowa JPEC).
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Iowa professor's innovation among Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2024

Thursday, November 21, 2024
Yang Liu, University of Iowa associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, co-founded Unify Medical which released a digital loupe technology called Amplio to support image-guided surgical procedures. Amplio made Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2024.
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Iowa Engineering developing ‘game-changing’ laser that could benefit national security and health care

Monday, November 18, 2024
A new Department of Energy grant will support Fatima Toor, University of Iowa engineering professor, in developing a high-powered laser with benefits ranging from national security to health care diagnostics.
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Iowa students help develop NASA satellites

Sunday, October 13, 2024
Allison Flores, a third-year doctoral student in electrical and computer engineering, is working on the TRACERS project.
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Nearly 600 students register for UI’s new AI certificate

Sunday, September 22, 2024
The UI’s new artificial intelligence certificate program aims to prepare students for the rapidly growing field of AI.
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Toor receives $1M EPSCoR award to improve quantum computing

Monday, September 9, 2024
Fatima Toor, University of Iowa’s Lowell G. Battershell Chair in Laser Engineering, has received a $999,985 grant to bring next generation quantum computing closer to reality. 
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College of Engineering joins KEEN: The Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network

Monday, August 26, 2024
The College of Engineering at the University of Iowa has joined KEEN: The Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network, a partnership of more than 60 colleges and universities across the United States focused on reaching “all undergraduate engineering students with an entrepreneurial mindset (EM) so they can create personal, economic, and societal value through a lifetime of meaningful work.”