February 16, 2022 - The College of Engineering experienced a year of major milestones and growth in 2021, even as the college and the University of Nebraska system continued to deal with the changing demands of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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February 11, 2022 - Daniel Linzell, Jennifer Rasmussen, Chen Fang and Tewodros Yosef have developed two approaches - a fiber-reinforced polymer wrap and a coating of polyurea - as cost-effective options to strengthen columns that support highway bridges.
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January 26, 2022 - Richard Wood and Christine Wittich spent much of June 2021 underground, using lidar scans to help conserve a 1,400-year-old Mayan temple in Honduras.
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January 25, 2022 - A study by researchers from Nebraska civil and environmental engineering researchers and UNMC suggests that measuring the amount of herbicide in groundwater may not accurately reflect how many people are exposed to it via drinking water.
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November 08, 2021 - To meet workforce demands and public concern for environmental quality, a new environmental engineering undergraduate degree program will begin in Fall 2022.
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October 27, 2021 - A team of researchers from Civil and Environmental Engineering was chosen to receive the PCI Journal's George D. Nasser Award for their paper, "Flexural Design of Precast, Prestressed Ultra-High-Performance Concrete Members."
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October 27, 2021 - University of Nebraska at Omaha and University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers have been awarded $5 million by the Department of Defense Army Corps of Engineers for research to extend the lifespan of bridges through new monitoring technology.
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October 08, 2021 - Aemal Khattak, professor of civil and environmental engineering and a national leader in highway-rail crossing safety, has been chosen to be the next director of the Mid-America Transportation Center (MATC).
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September 28, 2021 - researchers are testing a new landfill ground covering system shown to improve landfill gas emissions.
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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.
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