Kian Hageman

Bio

Kian Hageman is an engineering student and scuba diver. He is currently studying at the University of Iowa, where he will graduate with a B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering in December 2026. During his time at Iowa, he's completed numerous design projects spanning biomechanics, biomaterials, and physiological modeling, building hands-on experience in CAD modeling, CFD and FEA simulation, circuit design, and prototyping along the way. Kian was also the president of the university's Brazilian jiu-jitsu club for three semesters. In his free time, Kian enjoys scuba diving in Lake Michigan and around the world, particularly when he can explore long-lost shipwrecks.

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Active projects

Bairway Trainer

Currently working as engineering support alongside the project lead on a mechanical training model for direct laryngoscopy. Most airway mannequins on the market are too rigid to teach real jaw biomechanics, so this project isolates the lift-angle-torque motion of the skill itself, first as a rough clay-and-rubber-band proof of concept, now moving into a tunable, rail-based CAD prototype. Currently sourcing hardware for the next physical build.

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Previous projects

senior capstone

Cyclodapt

A knee-activated braking system and molded cuff that let a rider with symbrachydactyly cycle independently, without a prosthetic.

Time-averaged wall shear stress maps of the stented and healthy aorta, side by side

simulation

CFD Stent

A computational comparison of healthy and stented aortic flow, judging how well a stent restores normal wall shear stress.

case study

Stride Assist

A tights-based hip flexion assist device for ambulatory MS, built to be worn every day instead of left in a drawer.

case study

EMG Activated Elbow

A servo-actuated elbow brace driven by bicep EMG signals, built for motor monoparesis and verified on two test subjects.

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Dive Scheduler

Kian is Chief Product Officer at Dive Scheduler, a platform for running dive charter operations end to end. It ships as a web back end alongside iOS and Android apps, and the boat app is built to hold a trip locally at sea and sync back once it reconnects, so crews keep working outside cell coverage.

He owns product direction, the interface and user flows, the written specifications, quality, and sales, directing one external developer who handles implementation. Roughly two thirds of the role is product and testing, one third sales. Only features large enough to reshape the platform go to the owner for sign-off; everything below that is his call. The hardest part, in his words, is translating what divers and boat crews actually need into something that works on a screen.