Nebraska Engineering has a unique campus system that benefits our students and faculty. We're one college in two cities (Lincoln and Omaha) on three campuses. Depending on your major, you'll spend most or all of your time on the City Campus in Lincoln, the East Campus in Lincoln, or on the Omaha Campus.
Lincoln (City Campus)
Donald F. Othmer Hall
The four-story brick and limestone building, which opened in 2002, features the latest in research laboratory design, including a bio-process manufacturing facility; a state-of-the-art computer control system for laboratories; and next-generation distance education technology.
Funding for the $24 million building came from the estate of Mildred Topp Othmer, '28, who died in 1998. She was the widow of Donald F. Othmer, '24, a noted chemical engineer and professor at Polytechnic Institute of New York in Brooklyn. Donald graduated from the University of Nebraska with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and earned a master's degree and doctorate from the University of Michigan. He accumulated 150 patents throughout his career. In 1947, he and Raymond Kirk, a Polytechnic colleague, published the 27-volume Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, which is used in universities, research facilities and companies for chemical processes.
Scott Engineering Center (SEC)
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Nebraska Hall (NH)
Nebraska Hall houses the departments of Construction Management, Construction Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical & Materials Engineering, Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, and the Engineering Library. It is physically linked with Scott Engineering Center and provides both laboratory, classroom, and office space for the College of Engineering.
The third floor of Nebraska Hall also houses the University Communications Publications department and the N Store.
The Schorr Center
Located under the stadium's south wing, the June and Paul Schorr III Center for Computer Science and Engineering was completed in late 2007. The facility provides 18,434 square feet to consolidate areas of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering currently located in two other areas on campus and a leased space off campus. The Schorrs are both alumni of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The UNL Research Computing Facility, which provides campus-wide services to researchers who need high performance computer resources, and PrairieFire, a powerful supercomputer, also relocated to the center. PrairieFire is used by scientists and engineers to study subjects such as nanoscale chemistry, subatomic physics, meteorology, genomics, crash-worthiness and artificial intelligence. It is also used by students for several courses each year.
Avery Hall
Avery Hall houses portions of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, along with the Mathematics Department, the Center for Science, Mathematics and Computer Education, and a branch of the Statistics Department.
The hall, which was renovated in 2004, contains classrooms and faculty and graduate student offices, and includes wireless computer networking, gathering spaces, and multimedia configurations.
The building was originally built in 1916 to replace the first Chemistry Building as part of Coolidge and Hodgdon's comprehensive building plan for the university.
Lincoln (East Campus)
Chase Hall
Formerly the Agricultural Engineering Hall, L.W. Chase Hall was rededicated in 1982. The building features three floors with approximately 5,300 square feet of floor space divided into five classrooms, 12 laboratories, and offices.
The basement includes a state-of-the-art Biomedical Imaging and Biosignal Analysis Laboratory. Additional labs include Engineering Properties & Processing, Environmental Engineering & Bioremediation, Environmental Instrumentation & Computing, Soil & Water Properties, and several other spaces for Biological Systems Engineering.
Omaha Campus
The Peter Kiewit Institute (PKI)
The building includes The Charles Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction and is a living-learning laboratory. Through the hallways, informational markers encourage students to monitor, investigate and interact with their surroundings and understand the broad concepts and intricate details of the facility's structure and systems. Specialized labs allow students to learn about lighting, heating and cooling, computer-aided manufacturing, imaging and animation, robotics and other fields of study.
Academic programs offered in Omaha by the College of Engineering include Architectural Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer & Electronics Engineering, Construction Engineering, and Construction Management.
