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Hamid Sharif, professor of electrical and computer engineering
February 13, 2017 - A Nebraska Engineering research team, led by Hamid Sharif, professor of electrical and computer engineering, will take part in a new cybersecurity defense project facilitated by the NSRI.
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Dr. Allen R. Edison was electrical engineering chair 1964-70.
February 01, 2017 - Allen Edison, who served as chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1964 to 1970, died on Jan. 24 in Lincoln. He was 90.
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John Woollam, George Holmes Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering.
January 18, 2017 - John Woollam, George Holmes Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at Nebraska, has been chosen to receive the 2017 R.F. Bunshah Award and to present the Honorary Lecture at the 2017 International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin F
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Sixteen-month-old Carter Brown takes a ride in his modified electric car renovated by Heidi Kratzer, a senior Electrical Engineering major. Carter's family received the car from Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital as part of a project to give children a means to overcome challenges that inhibit their mobility.
January 12, 2017 - Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital teamed with senior Electrical Engineering major Heidi Kratzer on a project that gives a 16-month-old boy a chance to get moving on his own after a traumatic brain injury.
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Students in ELEC 121 work on a device they created to shoot a rubber band from inside a three-sided box.
December 09, 2016 - This semester, Mark Bauer, professor of practice in Electrical and Computer Engineering, decided to mix up the ELEC 121 Introduction to Electrical Engineering course, making it much more hands-on and encouraging early innovation and creativity.
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Hamid Sharif (left), professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Gregg Rothermel, professor of computer science and engineering, have been selected as IEEE Fellows for 2017
November 28, 2016 - Hamid Sharif, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Gregg Rothermel, professor of computer science and engineering, have been selected as IEEE Fellows for 2017.
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Dennis Alexander, Kingery Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, uses a femtosecond laser to replicate biological structures on metal surfaces.
November 28, 2016 - Dennis Alexander, Kingery Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, uses a femtosecond laser to replicate biological structures on metal surfaces, functionalizing them for defense and industrial purposes.
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Jay W. Forrester, a 1939 Nebraska electrical engineering graduate, was a pioneer in the field of computing and computer modeling and the father of system dynamics.
November 23, 2016 - Jay W. Forrester, a Nebraska Engineering alumnus whose insights into both computing and organizations gave rise to the field of system dynamics, died November 16 at his home in Concord, Massachusetts. He was 98.
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"Milk Drop Coronet," a photograph by 1925 electrical engineering alumnus Harold Edgerton, is among TIME's "100 Photographs: The Most Influential Images of All Time."
November 17, 2016 - Nebraska Engineering alumnus Harold Edgerton changed the world through his photographic work and one image, "Milk Drop Coronet," is among TIME's 100 Most Influential Images of All Time.
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Nebraska engineers Christopher Tuan (left) and Lim Nguyen have developed a cost-effective concrete that shields against damaging electromagnetic energy.
November 14, 2016 - Nebraska engineers Christopher Tuan and Lim Nguyen have developed a cost-effective concrete that shields against intense pulses of electromagnetic energy, or EMP.
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