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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

February 01, 2024 - In teams of four, ENVE 101 students showcased their real-world problem-solving skills in a water treatment design challenge.  Full Story

A 7,000-plus-pound, 2022 Rivian R1T truck tears through a concrete barrier during an October 2023 crash test at the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility's outdoor proving grounds at the Lincoln Airport. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
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.  Full Story

Jason Hawkins, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering.
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.  Full Story

The six-story, privately funded, $115 million Kiewit Hall - which opened Jan. 22, 2024 - will be the College of Engineering's academic hub for undergraduate education. (Craig Chandler / University Communication & Marketing)
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.  Full Story

Sherri Jones, interim vice chancellor of research and economic development, moderates a Q&A session with Nebraska Lecturer Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, Donald R. Voelte Jr. and Nancy A. Keegan Chair of Engineering.
November 14, 2023 - In her Nebraska Lecture, presented Nov. 9, Shannon Bartelt-Hunt showed how the birth of modern epidemiology in 1854 inspired her during the COVID-19 pandemic to develop wastewater-based tracking that helped document the spread of diseases.  Full Story

Crews remove concrete and debris from the demolition site of Cather and Pound Halls in February 2018. Nebraska researchers are working to improve recycled concrete for reuse in construction. (University Communication and Marketing)
October 27, 2023 - Nebraska Engineering researcher Seunghee Kim is one of the leaders of a team studying the economic and practical feasibility of using recycled concrete as a building material and carbon sequestration source.  Full Story

On the early morning of March 14, 2019, the Spencer Dam in Boyd and Holt counties was breached after a major storm caused heavy rain, snowmelt and ice breakage to swell the Niobrara River. (State of Nebraska)
October 18, 2023 - Jongwan Eun, associate professor of civil engineering, received an NSF Early Career grant to enable better predictions of how frozen soil conditions may affect the severity of flooding.  Full Story

Aemal Khattak, director of the Mid-America Transportation Center (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
September 07, 2023 - The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Mid-America Transportation Center has won a five-year, $15 million grant to remain the transportation research and workforce development hub for the U.S. Department of Transportation Region 7.  Full Story



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