Advanced Manufacturing Resources at the College of Engineering
Biosciences Resources
Information Solutions Resources
Wind Energy Resources
Faculty Teaching and Research Excellence
Biomedical Engineering
Edwin L. Dove, interim departmental executive officer
- Articular joint contact mechanics
- Biomechanics of the spine
- Biomechanics of tractor roll-over injuries
- Controlled drug delivery
- Computational simulation of artificial heart valve dynamics
- Solution-perfused tubes for preventing blood-materials interaction
- Tissue engineered vascular grafts
- Total joint replacement
- Upper extremity biomechanics
- Wire coil-reinforced bone cement
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
David W. Murhammer, departmental executive officer
- Catalysis
- Dilute separation technology
- Membrane separation
- Polymer science
- Crystallization
- Photopolymerization
- Microlithography
- Reversible emulsifiers
- Polymerization kinetics
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Keri C. Hornbuckle, departmental executive officer
- Computational solid mechanics
- Constitutive modeling
- Design of hydraulics structures
- Design simulation
- Diverse aspects of water resources engineering
- Highway pavements
- Hydropower
- Optimal control of nonlinear systems
- Optimal design of nonlinear structures
- Thermal pollution/power plant operation
- Transportation-infrastructure modeling
- Winter highway maintenance
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jon G. Kuhl, departmental executive officer
- Quantitative medical image processing
- Design and testing of very large scale integrated circuits
- Materials and devices
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
L. D. Chen, departmental executive officer
- Applied statistics
- Casting and solidification
- Combustion
- Computational mechanics
- Engineering economics
- Engineering management
- Fatigue and fracture mechanics
- Fluid mechanics
- Fuel cells
- Heat transfer
- Manufacturing process control
- Operations Research
- Reliability-based design
- Ship hydrodynamics
- Structural mechanics
- Teleobotics
- Thermal systems
- Vehicle dynamics and simulation
College of Engineering Research Centers, Institutes, and Laboratories
Center for Computer-Aided Design
Karim Abdel-Malek, director
- Virtual soldier research--human modeling and simulation, virtual reality, biomechanics, control, optimization, clothing, human performance measures, electromyography, artificial intelligence, human kinematics and dynamics.
- Reliability and sensor prognostic systems--meshfree methods for structural analysis and design sensitivity analysis, composite materials, probabilistic mechanics and reliability, reliability-based design optimization, topology optimization, multidisciplinary design optimization, advanced geometric modeling and CAD, mechanisms and robotics, manufacturing system fault diagnosis, sensor technologies, sensor-based process monitoring optimization.
IIHR--Hydroscience & Engineering
Larry J. Weber, director
- Air pollution
- Biological fluid flow
- Bioremediation of ground water
- Water quality monitoring
Photopolymerization Center (National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center)
Alec Scranton, director
- Unique applications of photopolymerization technology
- Fundamental understanding of the kinetics, mechanisms, photoinitiation processes and polymer structural evolution in cationic and radical photopolymerizations
- Development of improved methods for monitoring photopolymerizations in situ and on-line
- Modeling, optimization and control of photopolymerization processes
Environmental Engineering and Sciences-W. M. Keck Phytotechnologies Laboratories
Jerry Schnoor, director
- Study of how plants are able to transform and detoxify environmental pollutants
- Development of screening methods to determine proper plant species for use on specific pollutants such as pesticides, explosives and solvents
- Investigation of plant genome to determine how to improve expression of enzymes for degrading toxic pollutants
Engineering-related Interdisciplinary Research Centers at The University of Iowa
Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing
Mani V. Subramanian, director
- Biocatalyst fundamental properties
- Bioremediation
- Bioprocessing
- Biosensing technology
- New biocatalyst discovery
- Novel biocatalyst applications
- Reactive agent development
Optical Science and Technology Center
Mark Arnold, director
- Laser spectroscopy and photo chemistry, photonics and optoelectronics, ultrafast laser development, condensed matter physics, materials growth techniques, device physics/engineering, surface chemistry, chemical sensors, environmental chemistry, polymer science, plasma physics