Engineering Kudos
Lu to receive ICALEO's Schawlow Award
Yongfeng Lu, Lott Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been selected as the 2016 Arthur L. Schawlow Award recipient. The award will recognize Lu’s record of laser industry innovation and his significant contributions to basic and applied research in the fields of laser science and electrical engineering. Lu established the UNL Laser Assisted Nano Engineering group in 2002 and has led several research projects for the university. He will be presented with the award on Oct. 20 during the International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics (ICALEO) luncheon in San Diego, California.
UCARE gives stipends to 58 engineering undergraduates
Engineering students have been chosen to receive 58 of the 325 stipends awarded by UNL to undergraduates to allow those students to participate in research with a faculty mentor during the 2016-17 school year. The stipends are given through UNL's Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) Program.
ECE students earn Nelson Summer Internship
Aaron Ediger and Vojislav Medic, undergraduate students in electrical and computer engineering, have been selected as two of the four recipients of the Darrel J. Nelson Summer Undergraduate Internship in Energy Sciences Research for the summer of 2016. Professor Natale Ianno sponosred the applications of Ediger and Medic for the internship, which is in its third year.
Swanson chosen chair of OSG Governing Council
David Swanson, director of the Holland Computing Center and research associate professor in computer science and engineering, has been elected to a two-year term as the chair of the governing Council of Open Science Grid.
Three engineering students chosen to Franco's List
Three engineering students -- senior Alfred Kurt Berchtold (chemical and biomolecular), sophomore Alison Manske (biomedical), and Mohammed Hussain (chemical and biomolecular) -- are among the 32 UNL students chosen to Franco's List, which honors UNL students with high academic achievement who also exhibit "the positive characteristics that are part of being a person of integrity."
Fourteen students receive UCARE undergraduate stipends
UNL's Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) Program has awarded 87 stipends, 14 to engineering undergraduates, to participate in research with a faculty mentor this summer:
Biological Systems Engineering: Janelle Adams, Hickman; Victoria Bart, Woodbury, Minnesota; Josiah Johnson, Lincoln; Blake Hass, West Point; and Alexandra Hruby, Omaha.
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering: Braden Harm, Grove City, Ohio; Joshua Mueller, Bellevue; Brynne Schwabauer, Portland, Oregon; and Matthew Sis, Bellevue.
Electrical and Computer Engineering: Phuong Ninh, Lincoln; and Timothy Carlson, Norfolk.
Mechanical and Materials Engineering: Hamood Al Rahbi, Lincoln; Matthew Bock, Omaha; and Beau Marth, Lincoln.
Five engineering students chosen as Chancellor's Scholars
Five students from the College of Engineering will be among the 32 UNL seniors recognized as Chancellor's Scholars during the All-University Honors Convocation at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 24 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Chancellor's Scholars are students who graduated in December or will receive their degrees in May or August and have maintained a 4.0 grade-point average on all collegiate work at UNL and elsewhere.
Berger receives NIRSA Wasson Award
Jonathan Berger, a senior in mechanical engineering, was one of four UNL students chosen to receive the William N. Wasson Student Leadership and Academic Award presented at the annual NIRSA national conference April 3-6 in Kissimmee, Florida. The award is given to 24 undergraduate and 12 graduate students nationwide and recognizes active participants, employees or volunteers in collegiate recrational sports departments. UNL leads the nation with 74 recipients since the award's inception in 1993 and is the only institution to have at least one Wasson winner every year the award has been given.
Shao earns MRS Graduate Student Gold Award
Yuchuan Shao, a graduate student in mechanical and materials engineering, has been chosen as one of seven receipients of the 2016 Materials Research Society's Graduate Student Gold Award.
Bobaru, Zhang publish study in International Journal of Fracture
Florin Bobaru, professor of mechanical and material engineering, and Guanfeng Zhang, graduate student in engineering, were invited to publish a study in the 50th-anniversary issue of the International Journal of Fracture. By comparing a series of model-based simulations with experimental results, the study helps resolve the long-standing question of how cracks branch — split into two or more cracks — and propagate through brittle materials such as glass.