Michael Dorneich, Joseph Walkup Professor of Engineering and professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering has been named Morrill Professor.
The Morrill Professorship is a university award recognizing faculty members for their national and international reputation of demonstrated outstanding success in teaching and learning in undergraduate, graduate and/or extension/outreach programs.
Dorneich is a distinguished leader in creating high-tech adaptive systems helping people perform in complex and often stressful aviation, military, robotic and space environments. In addition to his research in the department, Dorneich contributes his unique expertise in human-machine systems to interdisciplinary Iowa State programs, including the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) graduate degree program, the VRAC and the Game2Work research initiative.
He is committed to offering students engaging, hands-on research opportunities in his Adaptive Cognitive Systems Lab. Dorneich has served as a research mentor for more than 70 undergraduate research assistants and as major advisor or committee member for over 80 graduate students.
Dorneich teaches IE 3610: Statistical Quality Assurance, IE 4720: Design and Evaluation of Human-Computer Interaction, IE 5760: Human Factors in Product Design and IE 6720: Human Factors in Automation Design.
“Michael Dorneich has been a campus leader in team-based learning while making continuous improvements to our core course in Statistical Quality Assurance. We are fortunate to have him on our faculty,” says Sarah Ryan, C.G. “Turk” and Joyce A. Therkildsen Department Chair and Professor.
Dorneich will be recognized as a Morrill Professor throughout his tenure at Iowa State University.