About Iowa MADE

MADE offers unique opportunities to Iowa's faculty and staff innovators and student employees. Faculty and staff invent solutions to address needs and MADE offers a fast and accessible pipeline to get unique solutions from clinical settings to market presence. University of Iowa students have access to a hands-on opportunity working in a medical device company right on campus.
 

About our products

A multi-disciplinary student operations team assists with the manufacturing, pricing, marketing, sales, quality and regulatory affairs of all products. Through MADE, these students gain first-hand knowledge of bringing a product to market. All products are available for licensing through UIRF.

Meet our Team

Student Operations Team

Nathan Martinez

Nathan Martinez

Student Product Manager

Nathan-Martinez@uiowa.edu

Carrington S.

Carrington Stilabower

Student Quality Engineer

carrington-stilabower@uiowa.edu

Christina

Cristina Oijangbe

Student Product Manager

cristina-oijangbekuznetsova@uiowa.edu

Operations Team Alumni

Ivan Badovinac

BS, Biomedical Engineering

MADE: Manufacturing Engineer

After Graduation: Gap year in Denver, pursue PhD in BioMechanics

Rachel Cron

BS, Biomedical Engineering

MADE: Quality Team

After graduation: Commissioning and Qualification Engineer, Commissioning Agents Inc, Indianapolis, IN

Megan Gerdes

BA, Enterprise Leadership

MADE: Product Manager

After graduation: Distribution Analyst, Nuveen, Chicago, IL

Jesse Haworth

BS, Biomedical Engineering

MADE: Manufacturing Engineer team

After graduation: Associate R&D Engineer, Medical Murray, North Barrington, IL

Ben Hinz

BS, Biomedical Engineering

MADE: Quality Engineer

After Graduation: Process Development Engineer, Boston Scientific, St. Paul, MN

Akar Jani

BS, Biomedical Engineering

MADE: Manufacturing Engineering team

After Graduation: Research Associate, Urology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA

Mukundan Kasturirangan

BS, Biomedical Engineering

MADE: Product Manager

Cardiac Rhythm Management ACE Intern, Medtronic

Nicole Koenigsman

BS, Biomedical Engineering

MADE: Quality team

After graduation: Sustaining Engineer, Teleflex, Maple Grove, MN

Dillon Mastropolo

BA, Finance, Marketing

MADE: Product Manager

After graduation: Medical Sales Representative, Jigsaw Medical, Sugar Grove, IL

Trenton Montgomery

BS, Mechanical Engineering

MADE: Manufacturing Engineering team

After Graduation: Manufacturing Engineer, Stryker Neurovascular, Salt Lake City, UT

Imani Patterson

BS, Mechanical Engineering

MADE: Sales Engineer

After Graduation: Applications Engineer, Zonatherm Products, Chicago, IL

Ashley Preston

BS, Biomedical Engineering

MADE: Senior Product Manager

After Graduation: Technical Specialist, Shumaker and Sieffert Law Firm, St. Paul, MN

Parker Reineke

BS, Biomedical Engineering

MADE: Quality Team

After graduation: Biomedical Engineer, iotaMotion, Iowa City, IA

Ashika Sudheesh

BS, Industrial Engineering

MADE: Quality Engineering team

After Graduation: PrIME Rotational Engineer, Collins Aerospace, Dayton, OH

Achala Thippeswamy

BS, Biomedical Engineering

MADE: Quality Engineering team

After Graduation: R&D Engineer, Boston Scientific, Boston, MA

Ryland Threlkeld-Wiegand

BS, Biomedical Engineering

MADE: Product Manager

After Graduation: Rotational Engineer, Phillips-Medisize, Phillips, WI

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