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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, Tomasevicz is taking off in a new direction.
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Liyan Qu, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, recently earned a five-year, $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program Award from the National Science Foundation to develop a next-generation power grid transformer. (Craig Chandler / University Communications)
February 26, 2016 - Liyan Qu, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, recently earned a five-year, $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program Award from the National Science Foundation to develop a next-generation power grid transformer.
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Daryl Dodoo, a junior computer engineering major, explains how to work the controls of a robot to 9-year-old Mia Vogel of Lincoln during the 2015 Nebraska Robotics Expo.
February 17, 2016 - Nearly 1,000 K-12 students, team leaders and math and science teachers form Nebraska will pack the Strategic Air & Space Museum in Ashland on Saturday, February 20 for the annual Nebraska Robotics Expo.
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UNL researchers - (from left) Christos Argyropoulos, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering; Stephen Morin, assistant professor of chemistry; and Jay Taylor, graduate student in chemistry - have developed a method for crafting elastic materials with a matte appearance that become highly reflective when stretched.
February 17, 2016 - Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Christos Argyropoulos and his colleagues have developed a method for crafting elastic materials that feature a matte appearance when relaxed but become highly reflective when stretched.
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In a building that used to house the Cornhusker football team, engineering faculty are playing a big role in the Nebraska Intelligent Mobile Unmanned Systems (NIMBUS) lab developing the future of drone technology.
February 17, 2016 - In a building that used to house the Cornhusker football team, engineering faculty are playing a big role in the Nebraska Intelligent Mobile Unmanned Systems (NIMBUS) lab developing the future of drone technology.
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Electrical and computer engineering students (from left) Alexander Meier, Sarah Porath and Drew Wiseman have received IEEE Power & Energy Society scholarships. Jacob Eckstrom, who also received one of the scholarships, is not pictured.
December 04, 2015 - Four UNL electrical engineering students – Jacob Eckstrom, Alexander Meier, Sarah Porath and Drew Wiseman – have been awarded $2,000 scholarships through the IEEE Power & Energy Society Scholarship Plus Initiative.
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