ECE News Archives

Ezekiel Bahar, professor emeritus of electrical engineering, died Feb. 10, 2023. He was 89.
March 01, 2023 - Ezekiel Bahar, longtime faculty member in the College of Engineering and former president of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Faculty Senate, died Feb. 10, 2023, in Los Angeles, California. He was 89.  Full Story

Wei Qiao, Clyde Hyde Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
February 17, 2023 - Wei Qiao, Clyde Hyde Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elected a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).  Full Story

Nebraska Engineering researchers Kai Peng and Wei Bao created a polariton that allows for the first time the study of quantum fluids at room temperature.
December 20, 2022 - Kai Peng and Wei Bao are lead authors of a paper published in the Nov. 30, 2022 edition of Nature Communications that shows it is possible to demonstrate the quantum mechanical effects of light on electronic materials at room temperature.  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

Members of the Field-Nets research team pose in a soybean field on East Campus with their millimeter wave radios with phased-array antennas. The researchers (from left) are Santosh Pitla, Qiang Liu, Yufeng Ge, Christos Argyropoulos and Mehmet Can Vuran. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
November 09, 2022 - A team of faculty from multiple departments in the College of Engineering is working to design next-generation wireless network for agricultural fields.  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

Students working together on a large drone.
September 02, 2022 - President Biden on Sept. 2 announced Nebraska’s Heartland Robotics Cluster, which includes the College of Engineering, will receive $25 million in funding as a recipient of the American Rescue Plan Regional Challenge.  Full Story

(From left) Bilal Khan, Mohammad Hasan and Neeta Kantamneni are developing an app called Messages from a Future You, aimed at providing students with targeted, real-time interventions that boost their performance in STEM courses. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
August 02, 2022 - Mohammad Hasan is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to help undergraduate STEM students improve their academic performance and strengthen the pipeline of college graduates prepared for STEM jobs.  Full Story