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Midwest Roadside Safety Facility continues development of a modified guardrail system for U.S. Transportation Command through a new $800,000 contract award.
February 17, 2023 - Researchers at the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility are continuing development of a modified guardrail system to protect American facilities for U.S. Transportation Command through a new $800,000 Department of Defense contract award.  Full Story

Congrui Grace Jin's research team is testing combinations of fungi and bacteria to identify the best applications for creating self-healing concrete.
February 06, 2023 - Congrui Grace Jin believes the process for creating self-healing concrete on Earth could inspire a process for growing bricks that would be built into structures for humans to populate Mars and received a $175,000 grant from an innovative NASA program.  Full Story

Kazi Albab Hussain, doctoral student in civil engineering.
December 16, 2022 - Kazi Albab Hussain, a doctoral student in civil engineering, was chosen as one of the 2022-23 Buffett Early Childhood Institute Graduate Scholars and received a $25,000 award.  Full Story

Arafat Alam, doctoral student in civil engineering.
December 16, 2022 - Arafat Alam, a doctoral student majoring in civil engineering, has been chosen as one of eight recipients of the Transportation Research Board’s 2022-23 Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Graduate Research Awards.  Full Story

Ronald Faller, Willa Cather Research Professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility.
December 08, 2022 - Ronald Faller, Willa Cather Research Professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility, was selected as an National Academy of Inventors fellow.  Full Story

Spencer Knight gets three students and their rubber-band powered cars lined up for a race at Riley Elementary School in Lincoln. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
December 02, 2022 - Spencer Knight, a junior civil engineering major, is among the Nebraska Honors students who host semester-long after-school clubs in the Lincoln community. Those Honors students get paid and develop skills, all while helping to meet a community need.  Full Story

A 3D rendering of grain bins following an August 2020 windstorm. The rendering was produced with the aid of lidar — near-infrared laser beams fired at the structures by a drone flying above the site.
November 30, 2022 - After a 2020 derecho hit east-central Iowa, Nebraska's Christine Wittich conducted "structural reconnaissance" on a unique case study to learn why four of an interconnected group of five grain bins were destroyed and one was left totally intact.  Full Story

Nebraska Engineering researchers - (top photo from left) Jongwan Eun, Yuris Dzenis, and Seunghee Kim; and (bottom photo from left) Peter Sutter and Eli Sutter. (Photos by University Communication and Marketing)
November 29, 2022 - More than $1.4 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will allow two College of Engineering teams to expand innovative energy-related research in partnership with national laboratories.  Full Story

Ten faculty from the College of Engineering have been honored with new named professorships, bringing to 27 the total of named professorships in the college.
November 22, 2022 - Ten faculty from the College of Engineering have been honored with new named professorships, bringing to 27 the total of named professorships in the college.  Full Story

Nebraska’s Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) Program has awarded academic-year stipends to 43 students in the College of Engineering.
November 11, 2022 - The Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) Program has awarded stipends to 202 Husker undergraduates — including 43 College of Engineering students — to participate in research with a faculty mentor this fall.  Full Story



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