February 06, 2024 - From near completion of a $190 million facilities project to work that improves life at home and across the globe, Nebraska Engineering was consistently in the spotlight during 2023.
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February 05, 2024 - Luke Farritor, a senior computer science major in the Raikes School, was as co-winners of the Vesuvius Challenge's $700,000 Grand Prize for deciphering at least four passages of text, each 140-plus characters long, from digital scans of a seared scroll.
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February 01, 2024 - In teams of four, ENVE 101 students showcased their real-world problem-solving skills in a water treatment design challenge.
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January 31, 2024 - The Midwest Roadside Safety Facility (MwRSF) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has mobilized to answer the safety and military defense questions raised by the burgeoning number of electric vehicles (EV) on the nation’s roadways.
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January 31, 2024 - Nearly 100 students, faculty and staff let their imaginations take flight on Friday, Jan. 26 in a friendly paper aircraft competition inside Kiewit Hall to cap the College of Engineering’s celebration of the new building’s opening week.
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January 30, 2024 - Jason Hawkins, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, was awarded the Eric Pas Dissertation Prize at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, held Jan. 7-11 in Washington, D.C.
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January 30, 2024 - Invented by Nebraska Engineering professor Shane Farritor and others, a miniaturized surgical robot was launched into space Jan. 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, headed for the International Space Station where its remote capabilities will be tested.
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January 30, 2024 - A small team of students, led by doctoral student Rachael Wagner of Lincoln, was instrumental in prepping a miniaturized surgical robot for its first spaceflight - a mission to the International Space Station where its remote capabilities will be tested.
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January 30, 2024 - A research team led by Nebraska engineers Rajib Saha and Niaz Bahar Chawdhury has built the largest-ever metabolic model of corn to study how temperature stress affects the plant and how a certain fungus can help alleviate the problem.
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January 22, 2024 - Kiewit Hall - a six-story, privately funded, $115 million facility that opens Jan. 22, 2024 - is redefining how traditional academic spaces help prepare students for career successes.
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