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Partnerships between Iowa
educational and research institutions,
venturesome - entrepreneurs, and corporate
enterprises help students to learn, companies to
succeed, and the Iowa economy to grow.
Whether streamlining
the manufacture of agricultural equipment or helping an entrepreneur
launch new robotics software, the two engineering colleges help
Iowans engineer solutions.
Iowa
State University
College of Engineering |
The
University of Iowa
College of Engineering |
| 4,690
undergraduate students* (one of the nation's 10th largest undergraduate
engineering programs) |
1,193
undergraduate students* |
| 903
graduate students* |
394
graduate students* |
| 8
academic programs |
6
academic programs |
| More
than $50 million in research expenditures |
More
than $28 million in research expenditures |
| Home
to one of the world's only six-sided virtual reality labs |
All
programs have close teaching and research ties with all five
health sciences colleges on one campus |
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More
than 39,000 living alumni worldwide, including:
- Commissioner
who supervised construction of Hoover Dam
- Inventor
of a decoding process essential to fax machines
- Creator
of "smart card" technologies for electronic funds
transfers (ATM, debit cards)
- Current
and past CEOs and presidents of Boeing, Honeywell, Texas
Instruments, 3M, US West, Rockwell Collins
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More
than 12,000 living alumni
- 10
members of the National Academy of Engineering
- Past
and present senior executives of Exxon USA, Stanley Consultants,
Union Carbide, Deere & Company, Cessna Aircraft, Rockwell
Collins, and Square D
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Undergraduate
biomedical engineering program is one of only 28 accredited
programs in the U.S. |
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Over
23% of undergraduate students are women--exceeds national average. |
*Enrollment
figures from Fall '04 semester
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