These engineers of the future started influencing the world now. From “curing cancer” to “saving the bees” to a “human carwash,” their ideas have been turned public.

Involvement in biomedical engineering is growing at BYU as more and more labs research ways to improve the wellbeing of others.

With the exponential rise in drone activity, safely managing low-flying airspace has become a major issue. Using a network of small, low-cost radars, engineering professor Cammy Peterson and her colleagues have built an air traffic control system for drones that can effectively and accurately track anything in an identified low-altitude airspace.