Research is vital to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering. We are strong and growing, especially in the areas of nanotechnology, transportation, structures, computer and electronics engineering, and materials research. We are adding emphasis on biomechanics, materials and medicine; renewable energy production, distribution and consumption; and cyber infrastructures.
Research at Nebraska Engineering is progressive and collaborative. We attract and recruit excellent faculty and high quality doctoral students. We reach beyond our departments and programs to join forces with experts from other disciplines across the university, state, nation and globe. Join us in work that advances the world and develops your career.
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CIVE's Bartelt-Hunt wins NSF CAREER Award to study prions' environmental impact March 2012 - Omaha, NE
Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, UNL assistant professor of Civil Engineering, won a five-year, $413,883 Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation to study the complex interaction between prions and soil. Prions are misshapen, infectious proteins that cause livestock or wildlife to lose body mass and develop neurological problems. More ... |
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Transportation center wins $3.5M federal grant January 2012 - Lincoln, NE
Nebraska Engineering faculty continue to earn distinctions for their work in transportation safety. |
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Los Alamos researcher Nastasi to lead UNL energy center, joins MME faculty December 2011 - Lincoln, NE
Materials scientist Mike Nastasi was chosen to be the director of UNL’s Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research. Nastasi will also join the Mechanical & Materials Engineering faculty and hold the Elmer Koch Professorship. He was a longtime researcher with Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was a longtime researcher and, since 2009, directed the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Frontier Research Center on Materials at Irradiation of Mechanical Extremes. More ... |
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EE's Schubert named APS fellow November 2011 - Lincoln, NE
Mathias Schubert, associate professor of electrical engineering at UNL, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society. Schubert was cited by the APS council at its meeting this month for the "œdevelopment of generalized ellipsometry and the invention of the Optical Hall Effect" with "transformative potential for industrial characterization of materials properties†for advancing electronics. Schubert also co-directs UNL's new Center for Nanohybrid Functional Materials: to find and quantify minute things, such as toxins in the air or cancer particles in blood. More... |
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Yongfeng Lu discusses his team's work in the LANE (Laser-Assisted Nano Engineering) Lab at UNL's Department of Electrical Engineering. |
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Bing Chen leads UNL's Computer Electronics and Engineering (CEEN) program and its CEENbots program that helps schoolchildren learn robotics. |
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Larry Rilett, with the Department of Civil Engineering, shares the expertise and opportunities of important transportation centers at UNL. |
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Trauma Mechanics Research Initiative July 2010
At our unique, controlled-blast facility, Nebraska Engineering researchers study IEDs' impact; our findings help collaboratively design new materials to better equip soldiers protecting our nation. This work also benefits the public by preventing and mitigating Traumatic Brain Injury. |
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Nebraska Engineering Research Highlights June 2010
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Green building is the Power of Red September 2009
The Durham School's Zero Net Energy Test House partners academia, industry and utilities to advance Nebraska's "green collar" future. |
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Electrical engineering focuses on windpower August 2009
Professor Jerry Hudgins, EE chair and a leader with Nebraska's Center for Energy Sciences Research, works to harness a plentiful Great Plains resource. |
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National Defense magazine features UNL's Trauma Mechanics Research Initiative Autumn 2010 - Lincoln, NE
Shockwave blasts from IEDs are studied at UNL in a specially-equipped, cross-disciplinary effort to develop improvements in protective materials and provide insight for work on Traumatic Brain Injury. |
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Nebraska Innovation Campus: dream becomes reality Spring 2010 - Lincoln, NE
UNL's Office of Research and Economic Development offers a preview of growth for people and programs with this world-class development that will benefit the local, state and regional economies as well as research progress. More... |
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$6.9M grant helps fund UNL nanoscience facility Winter 2010 - Lincoln, NE
The new facility "will give a tremendous boost to the research capabilities" of UNL's nanoscientists and materials engineers, said the leader of the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience. |
