Josh Larson

Josh Larson

Josh Larson, graduated in May 2019 with a double major in electrical engineering and physics, built and tested instruments for space missions, participated in an intense, weeklong program building and flying a rocket in Norway, and created an experiment to help fellow undergraduates visualize and understand a branch of physics that involves hot, ionized gases called plasmas.

In fall 2019 Larson entered the graduate program in experimental plasma physics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Alumni Profile

Suman Sherwani

Suman Sherwani in Forbes

Suman graduated with a BSE in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Iowa in December 2019 after participating in the Canada Norway Sounding Rocket program, an intensive, four-and-a-half-day international student exercise in Norway to design, build, and fly a sounding rocket toward the atmosphere’s outer boundaries. She is an Avionics Technical Project Manager at Rocket Factory Augsburg - RFA and was featured on Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list for science.

Samuel Hisel

Sam Hisel in Miles Lab at University of Iowa.

Sam worked as an undergraduate research as an undergrauate assistant in the Miles Lab before graduating with a BSE degree in Electrical Engineering. He is now an Aerospace Design Engineer and Electrical Engineer in the Miles Lab. He has worked on CABOOM, VIPER, BLAZ and MAGIC/