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Alumni
Mechanical
Engineering alumni work all over the world in a wide variety of endeavors,
including automotive, chemical, aerospace, electronic, biomedical and
farm equipment industries, consulting companies, and government. Some
142 living alumni have achieved the status of Presid
ent, Chief Executive
Office, Chairman, or Vice President of different companies, ranging from
large manufacturers to small technology firms. Alumni of our graduate
programs have gone on to be professors of prominent universities, researchers
at national and industrial laboratories, and government officials. The
College of Engineering honors its most distinguished alumni through membership
in its Distinguished Alumni Academy. Short biographies of some recent
inductees into this academy with Mechanical Engineering degrees can be
obtained by clicking on the links below (some of these individuals earned
their Iowa degrees from the former Mechanics and Hydraulics program, which
was in part folded into Mechanical Engineering in the mid 1980s):
- Donald L. Bartel
- Edmund Y.S. Chao
- John P. Craven
- Philip H. Francis
- Allen Henry
- Philip G. Hubbard
- James R. Lightner
- Randall Meyer
- William B. Morgan
- Turgut Sarpkaya
- Luther H. Smith
- Ahmet Selcuk Uzuner
- R. William Van Sant
- Qidong Wang
- Jin Wu