Engineering Kudos
Saha earns Early Career Alumni Recognition Award from his alma mater
Keiser chosen to SWE Leadership Development Program
The LDP is an intensive program designed to help SWE collegiate members expand their leadership potential and overall SWE knowledge. Over the course of a year, selected participants engage in monthly meetings, develop relationships with collegiate and professional SWE members, and further expand their leadership abilities through implementation of their learnings. In addition, LDP participants join other collegians at the Collegiate Leadership Institute (CLI) at Society conference for professional development workshops and networking opportunities.
Keiser has served as the SWE Graduate Member Coordinator for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's collegiate section since 2019 and is the Learning Content Coordinator for the GradSWE Leadership Team.
Doctoral student Sotelo receives SHPE 2020 STAR Award
The prestigious awards honor outstanding professionals for their dedication, commitment, and selfless efforts to advance Hispanics in STEM careers.
Angela Pannier chosen to 2020 BMES Class of Fellows
Joe Luck receives Young Scientist Award from ISPA
Sotelo chosen as LATinE 2020 fellow
LATinE is a new initiative intended to increase the number and success of Latinx/Hispanic engineering faculty in the U.S., who in turn, will blaze new trails with new discoveries, innovations and social impact and serve as role models for the next generation of engineers.
New Faculty and Staff
Kyungki Kim, assistant professor: Kim’s research includes Building Information Modeling (BIM), Immersive Augmented Reality (AR) for construction education and training, construction safety and health, and real-time sensing for construction operation monitoring.
Jennifer Lather, assistant professor: Lather’s research includes interactive workspaces to support integrative project delivery and collaborative teams, quantitative layout planning and optimization, stochastic simulation for healthcare operations, and data-driven decision making.
Marc Maguire, assistant professor: Maguire’s research includes accelerated bridge construction, integrating sustainability, energy efficiency and structural performance, and nondestructive testing, computer vision, and machine learning in structural engineering.
Adam Page, assistant professor of practice: Page has 14 years of construction and project management experience and five years legal department/in-house counsel experience for ENRranked AE firms, and has been in project management and construction administration.
Mary Anne Phillippi, outreach program coordinator: Phillippi is a former lab manager at University of Nebraska Medical Center, where she focused on tumor experiments and projects in both cancer and NASH-model systems. Her professional interests include education of experts in scientific fields and the mentoring and education of K-12 students in STEM fields.
Recent Grants
George Morcous, professor of construction engineering, has received a $78,648 grant from the Nebraska Department of Transportation for a project titled, “Design and Detailing of Cast-in-Place and Precast Concrete Approach Slabs.”
Zhigang Shen, associate professor of construction engineering and management, received a $109,844 grant from the Nebraska Department of Transportation for a project titled, “To Automate Detecting, Quantifying, and Mapping of Delamination of Bridge Decks using Aerial Thermographic NDE.” Shen also received a $249,964 grant from NDOTPHMSA for “An Autonomous UAS Inspection Platform for High-Efficiency 3D Pipeline/Route Modeling/Change-Detection and Gas Leak Detection-Localization.”
David Yuill, assistant professor of architectural engineering, has received a $749,792 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project titled, “A Field Study to Characterize Fault Prevalence in Residential Comfort Systems.”
Student, faculty go global, bring home seven ASC regional awards
Construction programs students and faculty brought home plenty of awards from recent Associated Schools of Construction (ASC) competitions and conferences - one on another continent and the other only a few miles from campus. At the North Central Region 4 annual conference and 27th annual Construction Management Student Competition Oct. 27-30 Nebraska City.