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Using new mixes of metals and state-of-the-art 3D printing in Nebraska's NEAT Labs, Joseph Turner's team developed roller bearings for railcars that tested to be just as robust as those produced with conventional techniques. This, Turner said, could open a pathway to new ways to making these bearings. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
March 29, 2024 - When Nebraska Engineering researchers began cooking up new recipes for manufacturing railcar bearing components, they found new powders and production techniques offer robust alternatives that could change future production techniques.  Full Story

Chun-Hsing Ho, associate professor in the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction.
March 26, 2024 - Chun-Hsing (Jun) Ho, associate professor in the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction, has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for the 2024-25 academic year.  Full Story

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying an experimental satellite designed by the Big Red Satellite team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln hurtles toward outer space only seconds after launching from Florida on March 21, 2024. (Screen capture from NASA livestream / YouTube)
March 25, 2024 - A NASA SpaceX rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station launched March 21. Among its payload is an experimental satellite designed and built by a team led by Nebraska Engineering students.  Full Story

A rendering of a stretchable ultrasound device designed by Husker engineers. (Adapted from a figure in Advanced Functional Materials)
March 22, 2024 - A team of Nebraska engineers developed liquid metal droplets with special stretching properties that can be integrated into a wearable ultrasound device prototype.  Full Story

Mehmet Can Vuran, the Dale M. Jensen Chair and Professor of Computing.
March 19, 2024 - Growing up in Turkey, Mehmet Can Vuran would disassemble radios to see what was inside and then put them back together. Today, Vuran teaches wireless communications in the School of Computing and is a world renowned expert in wireless sensor networks.  Full Story

Cesar Leos, doctoral student in mechanical engineering.
March 14, 2024 - Cesar Leos, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering, has been selected to receive the Computational Physics Workshop Fellowship from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico for summer 2024.  Full Story

A camera system developed by Zhigang Shen is able to efficiently identify internal defects in pipelines that shuttle gases nationwide.
March 13, 2024 - A camera system developed by Nebraska’s Zhigang Shen is able to efficiently identify internal defects in pipelines that shuttle gases nationwide.  Full Story

Student JP Aurit and Professor Jiong Hu at ACI Awards Ceremony
March 05, 2024 - CEE student JP Aurit and Islam Orynbassarov awarded DeLorm Scholarships from the American Concrete Institute.  Full Story

Three Nebraska Engineering faculty have been appointed as NSRI fellows. (University Communication and Marketing)
February 29, 2024 - Three College of Engineering faculty are among the 14 from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln who have been appointed as National Strategic Research Initiative (NSRI) fellows.  Full Story

Research teams in the lab of Abdelghani Laraoui, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, are using a quantum sensing technique his lab developed that could lead to big breakthroughs in data transport technologies and in treating diseases. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
February 28, 2024 - Research teams in the lab of Abdelghani Laraoui are using a quantum sensing technique his lab developed that could lead to big breakthroughs in data transport technologies and in treating diseases.  Full Story