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Chungwook Sim (center), associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, is joined by alumni Micheal Assad (left) from Kiewit Corporation and David Gee from e.Construct in accepting the ASCE 2022 T.Y. Lin Award.
October 28, 2022 - A civil and environmental engineering research team was chosen to receive the ASCE 2022 T.Y. Lin Award for a paper that proposes flexural design recommendations for precast, pretensioned ultrahigh-performance concrete applications.  Full Story

Daniel Linzell, Leslie D. Martin professor of civil and environmental engineering, explains the MADS-OPP system for bridge health monitoring to invited guests during a demonstration Thursday, October 27, on a decommissioned bridge in northwest Lancaster County.
October 28, 2022 - Leading-edge technology developed by University of Nebraska researchers to monitor the health of rural bridges in Nebraska was chosen as a winner of the NATO Innovation Challenge and could be applied to transportation systems throughout Europe.  Full Story

Congrui "Grace" Jin, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering.
October 13, 2022 - Inspired by the ability of the human body to heal itself, Congrui "Grace" Jin has been awarded a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award to support research using microorganisms to develop a concrete that can heal its own cracks.  Full Story

Forty first-year students have been chosen to the inaugural cohort of the Peter Kiewit Foundation Engineering Academy.
September 23, 2022 - Forty first-year students in the College of Engineering – including 10 who will be based on Scott Campus in Omaha – have been chosen to the inaugural cohort of the Peter Kiewit Foundation Engineering Academy.  Full Story

Nathan Huynh has been chosen to become the new director of Nebraska Transportation Center.
September 07, 2022 - Nathan Huynh has been named the second director of the Nebraska Transportation Center (NTC). Huynh, who was selected from a nationwide search, will start at UNL on January 2, 2023.  Full Story

As small “slippery” particles or microorganisms such as Cryptosporidium travel through a pipe, they tend to concentrate in the middle. A Nebraska Engineering study looks to exploit this knowledge to determine better ways for energy and environmental sectors to achieve greater efficiency at mitigating contamination or in providing cheaper fuel.
August 22, 2022 - Jae Sung Park and Yusong Li are working on a three-year, $418,120 NSF grant to learn how small particles – some less than one-tenth the width of a human hair – better move through confined fluid flows in transport systems, such as pipes.  Full Story

Nebraska Engineering researchers are studying how to make ethanol production more environmentally sensitive by reducing the amount of water and energy required to produce it.
August 22, 2022 - Nebraska Engineering researchers are studying how to make ethanol production more environmentally sensitive by reducing the amount of water and energy required to produce it and cutting the air emissions that result.  Full Story

Christine Wittich, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, is conducting research focused on social media use by state departments of transportation during emergencies ranging from natural disasters to civil unrest to large traffic jams. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
August 17, 2022 - Christine Wittich is leading a national effort to gather information on how state departments of transportation use social media during emergencies, with an eye toward developing best practices to improve crisis communications.  Full Story

Nebraska Governance and Technology Center announces 2022-23 classes of Faculty and Student Fellows.
August 16, 2022 - The Nebraska Governance and Technology Center announced its new University of Nebraska-Lincoln fellows, selecting six College of Engineering faculty and six Nebraska Engineering graduate students to those classes.  Full Story

An aerial shot of a cornfield in southwestern Lancaster County, Nebraska. (University Communication)
August 04, 2022 - With the help of supercomputers from the Holland Computing Center, a team of civil and environmental engineers is analyzing historical data from the Sandhills to predict the impact of climate change on herbicide runoff.  Full Story



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