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Funded by a three-year NSF grant, engineering faculty Grace Panther and Heidi Diefes-Dux are studying the extent that engineering instructors have retained and extended teaching practices and strategies adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Justin Wan / Lincoln Journal Star)
September 13, 2021 - Funded by a three-year NSF grant, engineering faculty Grace Panther and Heidi Diefes-Dux are studying the extent to which engineering instructors have retained and extended teaching practices and strategies adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Full Story

Rick Stowell, professor of Biological Systems Engineering.
September 13, 2021 - Rick Stowell, professor of Biological Systems Engineering, received the G.B. Gunlogson Countryside Engineering Award from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers at the 2021 Annual International Meeting, held virtually in July.  Full Story

Daran Rudnick, associate professor of Biological Systems Engineering.
September 13, 2021 - Daran Rudnick, associate professor of Biological Systems Engineering, received the Larry W. Turner Young Extension Professional Award from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE).  Full Story

Five members of the College of Engineering community - including (from left) Peter Hilsabeck, Hunter Flodman and Heather Newell - were among the 11 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who were honored by the state on Aug. 30 for their roles in a collaboration that produced hand sanitizer for the state. Not pictured are Leonard Akert and Terry Howell Jr.
September 07, 2021 - Five people from the College of Engineering were among 11 who were given the State of Nebraska's highest honor for their roles in a collaboration to produce hand sanitizer during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Full Story

Santosh Pitla (center) has been chosen to receive the 2021 A.W. Farrall Young Educator Award from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.
August 27, 2021 - Santosh Pitla, associate professor of Biological Systems Engineering, has been chosen to receive the 2021 A.W. Farrall Young Educator Award from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.  Full Story

Dr. Carol Swarts (left) chats with Angela Pannier during the July 13 ceremony recognizing Pannier as the inaugural Swarts Family Chair in Biological Systems Engineering.
July 20, 2021 - A friendship sparked by a scholarship has led to Nebraska Engineering’s Angela Pannier being named the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s inaugural Swarts Family Chair in Biological Systems Engineering.  Full Story

Recent Husker graduate Abby Smith (left) holds a prosthetic prototype that she and senior Harrison Grasso (center) helped develop for Olive (right), who is missing part of her left foreleg. (Craig Chandler / University Communication)
June 16, 2021 - With the help of a 3D printer at Nebraska Innovation Studio, a team of biological systems engineering students recently finished their senior capstone project by fabricating a prosthetic leg prototype for a cat missing the lower half of its left foreleg.  Full Story

The Nebraska Environmental Trust has awarded 23 grants totaling more than $2.1 million to University of Nebraska–Lincoln projects.
May 26, 2021 - Six projects from the College of Engineering have received 2021 grants from The Nebraska Environmental Trust. NET has awarded 23 grants totaling more than $2.1 million to University of Nebraska–Lincoln projects.  Full Story

Nine researchers from the College of Engineering are among 31 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be part of the university's inaugural interdisciplinary cohort of National Strategic Research Institute Fellows.
May 20, 2021 - Nine researchers from the College of Engineering are among 31 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be part of the university's inaugural interdisciplinary cohort of National Strategic Research Institute Fellows.  Full Story

Santosh Pitla, associate professor of biological systems engineering at Nebraska, and his team are working on a new approach for refilling Unmanned Ground Vehicle seed tanks using aerial robots. (University Communication)
April 14, 2021 - A new $452,783 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture will fund research that will help Santosh Pitla's team develop a new approach for refilling Unmanned Ground Vehicle seed tanks using aerial robots.  Full Story

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