Some people look at a field and see cows.
Hana El-Samad sees parallels and possibilities. The Ph.D. student in systems and controls, who earned her master's at Iowa State in electrical engineering, is working to model biological systems from a control engineering perspective. For her master's degree, El-Samad modeled the calcium homeostatic mechanism in dairy cows. Her research generated a great deal of interest and connected her to other researchers. In fact, those connections are still forming.