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UNL engineers (from left) Yongfeng Lu, Lijia Jiang and Ying Liu stand in a laboratory illuminated by a special light that protects the lenses of the lab's scanning electron microscope. (Troy Fedderson / University Communications)
May 03, 2016 - <span>UNL engineers have found that compounds known for scattering people have a similar but desirable effect on nanoscopic carbon tubes, helping disperse them in a way that could substantially boost performance.</span>
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May 02, 2016 - A University of Nebraska-Lincoln researcher is helping create a new technology to enable a future of renewable energy. Liyan Qu earned a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to develop a next-generation power grid transformer.
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The Salvadoodle Doodler - developed by a team of electrical and computer engineering students (from left, Alex Hinton, Andy He, Andrew Nelson and Shane Kraus) - took home the People's Choice Award at the Senior Design Showcase on April 22 at Memorial Stadium.
April 26, 2016 - The Salvadoodle Doodler, developed by a team of electrical and computer engineering students, earned the People's Choice Award at the Senior Design Showcase, which featured 57 booths, more than 200 students and more than 500 guests.
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A team of UNL electrical and computer engineers is developing a monitoring system that the Henry Doorly Zoo would use to help monitor its stingrays.
April 20, 2016 - An electrical and computer engineering capstone team has learned plenty from working to develop a tank monitoring system that will help the Henry Doorly Zoo better care for its stingrays.
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Five engineering students honored as Chancellor's Scholars.
April 18, 2016 - Five students from the College of Engineering will be among the 32 UNL seniors recognized as Chancellor's Scholars during the All-University Honors Convocation at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 24 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
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April 07, 2016 - I wanted to provide an update on the plans to expand into new space for the ECE Department. Decisions on specific relocations, agreement on renovations required, and alignment of funding for new equipment just occurred a few weeks ago.
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A team led by Peter Sutter (left), professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Eli Sutter, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, has become the first to directly image the self-assembly of nanocrystals in real time.
April 06, 2016 - A UNL team led by professors Eli Sutter and Peter Sutter has become the first to directly image the self-assembly of nanocrystals in the liquid environments that foster it.
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While in the Army, Zachary Meade was a bomb squad technician. Now a UNL electrical and computer engineering student in Omaha, Meade is looking forward to a career that would use engineering, military and research backgrounds to make better prosthetic devices for wounded veterans.
March 14, 2016 - After working in bomb disposal unit of Army, electrical engineering major Zachary Meade lands in Omaha with goal of doing prosthesis research to help wounded fellow veterans.
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Greg Hyslop, a UNL electrical engineering alumnus, has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Engineering, Test & Technology of The Boeing Company.
March 14, 2016 - Greg Hyslop, a member of the College of Engineering Advisory Board and a 1980 electrical engineering graduate, has been promoted to senior vice president of Boeing Engineering, Test & Technology of The Boeing Company.
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Curtis Tomasevicz, lecturer in electrical and computer engineering, shows a squat bar with sensors that are used to measure athletic performance in the Nebraska Athletic Performance Laboratory in Memorial Stadium. Tomasevicz, also a graduate student in biological systems engineering, is working at NAPL while doing doctoral research into how athletes create power while jumping vertically.
March 09, 2016 - From playing football for the Huskers and pushing a bobsled at the Olympics, Curtis Tomasevicz learned much about generating force on a horizontal plane. Now doing his doctoral research,&nbsp;Tomasevicz is taking off in a new direction.
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