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
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
