Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Combining Engineering with Life Sciences

Biology, once largely an empirical science, is rapidly changing as physics, mathematics, and engineering concepts become integral to the field. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECpE) at Iowa State University is making a concerted effort to bring engineering and the life sciences together, thus making ECpE a leader in changing the way we look at combining these two areas of study.

At the heart of this effort are discoveries like gene-regulation mechanisms and the enhanced ability to investigate bioprocesses at molecular and cellular scales. ECpE is set to play a significant role in these areas.

• Bioengineering and Small-Scale Technologies Research Highlights 2008 (pdf)
  
• Bioengineering Research Highlights 2008 (pdf)
  
• Bioengineering Research Highlights 2006 (pdf)
  

Faculty in this Area

• Srinivas Aluru
• Viren Amin
• Timothy Bigelow
  
• Vikram Dalal (secondary area)
  
• Julie Dickerson
• Aleksander Dogandzic (secondary area)
  
• Liang Dong
  
• Jaeyoun Kim (secondary area)
  
• Santosh Pandey
• Arun K. Somani (secondary area)
  
• Namrata Vaswani
• Robert Weber (secondary area)