Research Topics

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Automated vehicles
  • Autonomous systems 
  • Cognitive
  • Command and control
  • Computational mechanics
  • Computer vision
  • Data analytics
  • Engines and fuels
  • Flight research, avionics
  • Flight testing
  • Human factors/ergonomics
  • Human simulation
  • Mechanical design
  • Motion capture
  • Photonics/optical sensors
  • Robotics 
  • Satellite remote sensing
  • Sensors
  • UAV research
  • Wireless communication

Aerospace Technology News

Delfin L29 in the air

Iowa draws industry attention for AI-driven mission demo with Lockheed Martin

Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Schnell LIFT

OPL helps evaluate LIFT’s new fixed wing AV 2.2 helmet 

Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Tom Schnell

Flyover State: Iowa Engineers Set Their Sights on the Future of Aviation

Thursday, March 9, 2023
Aircraft inside OPL hangar

CBJ: UI flight expert briefs DARPA on AI in aerial combat

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Research Labs

Director: Jun Wang, professor of chemical and biomedical engineering
Email: jun-wang-1@uiowa.edu
Phone: (319) 353-4483
Website: AER Lab

Research topics:

  • Satellite remote sensing
  • Sensors
Wang with AER Students

Director: Shaoping Xiao, associate professor of mechanical engineering
Email: shaoping-xiao@uiowa.edu
Phone: (319) 335-6009
Website: Multiscale Computational Science and Engineering Laboratory

Xiao teaching

Director: Tom Schnell, Captain Jim "Max" Gross Chair in Engineering, professor of industrial and systems engineering, professor of occupational and environmental health, professor of electrical and computer engineering, professor of neurology
Phone:  (319) 384-0811
Email: thomas-schnell@uiowa.edu
Website: Operator Performance Laboratory

Research topics: 

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Automated vehicles
  • Autonomous systems
  • Cognitive
  • Command and control
  • Data analytics
  • Flight research - avionics
  • Flight testing
  • Human factors/ergonomics
  • Human simulation
  • Photonics/optical sensors
  • Sensors
  • UAV research
  • Wireless communication
OPL Hangar Showcase

Director: Al Ratner, associate professor of mechanical engineering
Email: albert-ratner@uiowa.edu
Phone: (319) 384-0883
Website: Ratner Research Group

Sazzad Parveg at Ratner Lab

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