Research is an important facet of engineering education excellence at Iowa State University. Our award-winning and internationally recognized faculty and graduate students collaborate with industry and other organizations to pursue highly innovative research. View the following departments’ Web pages for more information on their research activities:
Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Iowa State offers on-campus research opportunities to undergraduate students, too. Students need to contact their academic advisor and/or a faculty member in the department if they are interested in an undergraduate research opportunity. View a list of undergraduate research opportunities available to electrical and computer engineering students.
Research Centers and Institutes
Iowa State is home to many well-respected, cutting-edge research centers and institutes, including the following:
- Bridge Engineering Center (BEC)
- Center for Advanced Technology Development (IPRT Company Assistance)
- Center for Industrial Research and Service
- Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE)
- Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies
- Center for Weather Impacts on Mobility and Safety (CWIMS)
- Computational Fluid Dynamics Center
- Electric Power Research Center (EPRC)
- Information Infrastructure Institute
- Information Assurance Center
- Institute for Physical Research and Technology (IPRT)
- Institute for Transportation
- Microelectronics Research Center (MRC)
- Midwest Transportation Consortium
- National Concrete Pavement Technology Center (CP Tech Center)
- Plant Sciences Institute and L.H. Baker Center
- Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC)
- U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory
- Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC)
- VLSI Design Center