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Walking the red carpet at the Jan. 19 event are Alisa Gilmore (left), associate professor of practice in electrical and computer engineering, and Terri Norton, associate professor of construction engineering.
February 13, 2017 - Nebraska Engineering faculty Alisa Gilmore and Terri Norton were among educators and mentors honored in Omaha on Jan. 19 for work with youth in STEM fields.  Full Story

Hamid Sharif, professor of electrical and computer engineering
February 13, 2017 - A Nebraska Engineering research team, led by Hamid Sharif, professor of electrical and computer engineering, will take part in a new cybersecurity defense project facilitated by the NSRI.  Full Story

Dr. Allen R. Edison was electrical engineering chair 1964-70.
February 01, 2017 - Allen Edison, who served as chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1964 to 1970, died on Jan. 24 in Lincoln. He was 90.  Full Story

John Woollam, George Holmes Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering.
January 18, 2017 - John Woollam, George Holmes Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at Nebraska, has been chosen to receive the 2017 R.F. Bunshah Award and to present the Honorary Lecture at the 2017 International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin F  Full Story

Sixteen-month-old Carter Brown takes a ride in his modified electric car renovated by Heidi Kratzer, a senior Electrical Engineering major. Carter's family received the car from Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital as part of a project to give children a means to overcome challenges that inhibit their mobility.
January 12, 2017 - Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital teamed with senior Electrical Engineering major Heidi Kratzer on a project that gives a 16-month-old boy a chance to get moving on his own after a traumatic brain injury.  Full Story

Jay W. Forrester, a 1939 Nebraska electrical engineering graduate, was a pioneer in the field of computing and computer modeling and the father of system dynamics.
November 23, 2016 - Jay W. Forrester, a Nebraska Engineering alumnus whose insights into both computing and organizations gave rise to the field of system dynamics, died November 16 at his home in Concord, Massachusetts. He was 98.  Full Story

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October 26, 2016 - Ying Liu, a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering, received a second-place student paper award at the 2016 International Congress on Applications of Lasers & Electro-Optics on Oct. 20 in San Diego.  Full Story

Jie Cheng, doctoral student in electrical engineering, stands next to the partial prototype of a wind turbine system that research suggests could yield 8.5 percent more electricity than conventional counterparts. (Troy Fedderson / University Communications)
October 13, 2015 - <span>A new prototype from the electrical engineering doctoral student Jie Cheng could give a second wind to turbines that currently waste Mother Nature's strongest breaths.</span>  Full Story

Travis Deyle, a 2005 computer and electronics engineering graduate, was chosen by MIT Technology Review to receive its "35 Innovators Under 35" award.
August 26, 2015 - Travis Deyle, a senior hardware engineer at Google(X) Life Sciences and a 2005 UNL computer engineering graduate, was chosen by the MIT Technology Review as one of the "35 Innovators Under 35" award winners.  Full Story

John Woollam
December 16, 2014 - John Woollam, George Holmes Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at UNL, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.  Full Story