Durham School's Wang, Underwood co-author paper featured in Acoustics Today
Aug. 2, 2024 - Lily Wang, director of the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction, and architectural engineering doctoral candidate Samuel Underwood, are co-authors of a paper that is featured in the July 23 edition of the journal Acoustics Today. Titled, "Autism and Indoor Sounds," the paper explores acoustic accessibility for autistic individuals in the built environment and ways to incoporate the perspectives of neurodivergent individuals into the design process.
Durham School MAE team chosen as finalists for AEI Student Design Competition
March 29, 2024 - A team of Durham School Master of Architectural Engineering students - Nick Abbott, Anna Diederich, Jillian Dlouhy, Blaine Kaup, Peyton Leute (team lead), Trevor Mensch, Jace Pauli, Drue Pecquet and Taytum Vance - have been selected as a team finalist in this year's AEI Student Design Competition.
The team, with mentorship from Clarence Waters, Aaron Douglas Professor of Architectural Engineering, and industry fellows Todd Feldman, Ericka Nienhueser and Pete Uhing, will travel to the AEI Forum 2024, held April 8-10 in San Jose, California, where it will compete.
Alsaleem co-authors paper on solar-powered air conditioner that is published in Solar Energy journal
March 29, 2024 - Fadi Alsaleem, associate professor in the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction, is co-author of a paper - "Experimental Evaluation of a Solar-Powered Air Conditioner" - that was published in the April 2024 edition of the journal Solar Energy.
Ho, Ren receive Best Oral Presentation at International Conference on Big Data Analytics
March 29, 2024 - Chun-Hsing (Jun) Ho and graduate student Kewei Ren received the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 9th International Conference on Big Data Analytics, held March 14-16 in Tokyo, Japan. The paper Ho and Ren presented was titled, "Vibration Data Minking and Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection of Cycling Trails Using Instrumented Bike."
Asay honored by UNO as Academic Advisor of the Month for March
March 26, 2024 - Mallory Asay, academic advisor in the College of Engineering with emphasis on programs in the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction, was recently named Advisor of the Month by the University of Nebraska Omaha Academic Advising Council (AAC) for the month of March. The award will be presented to Asay at the March Academic Advising Council meeting.
Waters named 2024 Nebraska Engineering Champion
Jan. 26, 2024 - Clarence Waters, Aaron Douglas Professor in the Durham School, was named the 2024 Nebraska Engineering Champion by the American Council of Engineering Companies of Nebraska. The award recognizes outstanding individuals and teams who have collaborated with the council to contribute significantly to the engineering profession.
Sanderson selected to receive ASHRAE David C.J. Peters Scholarship
Sept. 1, 2023 - Geoffrey Sanderson, a sophomore majoring in architectural engineering, was chosen to receive the David C.J. Peters Scholarship, given annually by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).
The one-year, $5,000 scholarship is awarded annually to a qualified undergraduate mechanical or architectural engineering student enrolled full-time in a four- or five-year bachelor degree program at a qualifying institution. The scholarship was created by Southland Industries in honor of David Peters, a tireless advocate of recruiting quality and an ASHRAE member.
Sanderson, a sophomore from McKinney, Texas, said the scholarship was both a surprise and a relief.
"Two or three months after I applied, I was playing in a tennis tournament. I had just lost a match, and I was feeling embarrassed as I had played far from my best. When I walked over to check my phone, I saw that I had an email from ASHRAE. I had won the scholarship," Sanderson said.
"Being in the 4+1 program (the accelerated Master of Architectural Engineering program in the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction), my goal is to enter the master's year without student loans. This award gets me closer to that personal financial goal and helps me focus more of my attention on my studies and everything else the University of Nebraska has to offer."
Nebraska Engineering researchers win ASCE INSPIRE Best Paper award
Nov. 22, 2023 - A team of Nebraska Engineering researchers from the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction and Civil and Environmental Engineering won the Best Paper award at the ASCE Infrastructure Innovation & Adaptation for a Sustainable & Resilient World (INSPIRE) Conference, held Nov. 16-18 in Arlington, Virginia.
The paper, "Driving Factors of Rural Social Vulnerability for Communities at High Risk of Riverine Flooding in the United States," was co-authored by Ph.D. students Yasaman Ahmadi from the Durham School and Gabriela Gonzalez from civil engineering, and advisors Jennifer Lather, assistant professor in the Durham School, and Christine Wittich, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering.
The team examined the differences in factors of social vulnerability and flooding risk between rural and urban areas in the U.S. Their findings show that rural counties with a high risk of riverine flooding have higher percentages of vulnerable populations, such as those living in poverty, without a high school diploma, over 65 years old, with disabilities, and living in mobile homes, compared to their urban counterparts.
This work was supported through a UNL Grand Challenges Planning Grant that Lather is leading - "Serving At-Risk Communities in Disasters."
Alsaleem, grad students have three papers published in prestigious journals
Three research papers - co-authored by Fadi Alsaleem, associate professor in The Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction, and graduate students Mohammad Okour, Mohammad Megdadi, and Sulaiman Mohaidat, were published in prestigious journals in April.
The papers outline a novel way to use microscale beams to build new, efficient computers and sensing technologies. One of the papers was chosen as the top headline in Nature Communications Engineering.
Alsaleem's team also had papers published in IEEE SENSORS and Sensors MDPI.
Durham School team, Waters earn awards at AEI International Student Design Competition
April 21, 2023 - A team of architectural engineering students from the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction earned three awards at the Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI) International Student Design Competition, held at the AEI Annual Conference, April 13-15 in Denver, Colorado.
The team earned second place in the Building Integration category and first place in Electrical. Additionally, the Nebraska team also recieved a special award for "Sustainability: Embodied Carbon and Recylability."
Clarence Waters, the team's faculty advisor, was presented a special award for his contributions to AEI.
The Nebraska student team members included: Joey Hagge (team leader, Integration, Mechanical), Ben Weyeneth (Mechanical), Ahmed Khalil (Mechanical), Anthony Butler (Mechanical), Caleb Allerheiligen (Structural), Cailin Gentrup (Electrical), Ryan Ehresman (Structural), Garrett Quinn (Electrical), and Makayla Thompson (Electrical).