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Nebraska researchers George Gogos (third from left), Craig Zhulke and Jeffrey Shield are part of a $9.2 million Department of Defense DARPA grant that could bring UNL up to $2.6 million for the team's research to develop stackable three-dimensional microchips with controllable hot spots to improve performance in future electronic architectures. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
March 29, 2024 - Nebraska Engineering researchers are poised to build on their track records as innovators and leaders in heat transfer and thermal management in the first phase of a $9.2M DARPA team grant to develop scalable technologies to control "hot spots."  Full Story

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying an experimental satellite designed by the Big Red Satellite team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln hurtles toward outer space only seconds after launching from Florida on March 21, 2024. (Screen capture from NASA livestream / YouTube)
March 25, 2024 - A NASA SpaceX rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station launched March 21. Among its payload is an experimental satellite designed and built by a team led by Nebraska Engineering students.  Full Story

Liyan Qu, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been elected a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors. She is the first Husker woman and fifth UNL researcher overall to receive the recognition since the program launched in 2018. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
February 27, 2024 - Liyan Qu, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been elected a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors, becoming the first Husker woman to receive the recognition and the fifth UNL researcher overall.  Full Story

Students on the Big Red Satellite Team work on their CubeSat satellite, which will be launched into space this March and later deployed from the International Space Station.
February 22, 2024 - A team of Nebraska Engineering, high school and middle school students is counting down to the scheduled March launch of its CubeSat satellite into space for future deployment from the International Space Station.  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

Craig Zuhlke (left), George Gogos (back), and Graham Kaufman pose with the now active Leybold ultra-high vacuum laser surface processing and materials analysis system in the Engineering Research Center. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
November 30, 2023 - The Center for Electro-Optics and Functionalized Surfaces is now home to a first-of-its-kind laser in the United States to be used for a specialized method of surface modification that could improve manufacturing methods.  Full Story

Research by M.R. (Mohammad) Hasan, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, finds that machine learning can assist students in STEM courses.
November 14, 2023 - M.R. (Mohammad) Hasan, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, and former Nebraska Engineering researcher Bilal Khan found that integrating AI-based interventions can help undergraduate students succeed in STEM courses.  Full Story

Ashley Dohe, administrative coordinator for Electrical and Computer Engineering, has make an 8-foot tall Herbie Husker from papier mâché. She hopes to auction it off to help veterans. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
November 08, 2023 - Ashley Dohe, an Air Force veteran, created a papier mâché Herbie Husker that will be auctioned off with the proceeds benefiting a group that helps veterans and first responders.  Full Story

Abdelghani Laraoui (right), assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, and Ben Hammons, a first-year student in electrical and computer engineering, adjust a laser in Laraoui's Quantum Sensing & Defect Discovery and Spectroscopy Lab. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
October 19, 2023 - By looking to create quieter environments, a team that includes Nebraska Engineering researcher Abdelghani Laraoui hopes to take a bit of the “noise” out of quantum computing and help make the emerging technology more efficient, accessible and feasible.  Full Story

Electron microscopy images show a germanium sulfide nanowire (left) containing a single screw dislocation, the screw dislocation converted into a mixed helical dislocation in a hybrid nanowire (center) and an illustration of controlled formation of a tunable mixed dislocation in a core-shell nanowire heterostructure.
October 11, 2023 - By controlling the placement and types of defects in nanowires, Eli Sutter and Peter Sutter are setting the stage for electronic technology to optimize the new advantages the imperfections offer.  Full Story