Professor Stephen Baek received a $15,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control for a pilot project entitled "In-home gait and balance screening for the risk assessment of falls in elderly populations." He will lead a...
Today, Dean Scranton announced that Tom “Mach” Schnell, professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and director of the Operator Performance Laboratory (OPL), a research unit of the UI Center for Computer-Aided Design (CCAD), has been named The Captain Jim "Max" Gross Chair in Engineering...
We are pleased to announce that this morning the Iowa Board of Regents approved our proposal to divide our Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department into a Department of Mechanical Engineering and a Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. This...
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