MME 10-Year Merge Anniversary (2011-2021)
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Minert, Schellpeper, Munson chosen to Young Alumni Academy
Oct. 4, 2024 – The Nebraska Alumni Association announced that College of Engineering alums Brock Minert (2007, mechanical engineering) and Andrew Schellpeper (2011, construction management) and Nebraska Engineering recruitment coordinator Oliva Munson (2020, psychology) are among the 32 University of Nebraska–Lincoln graduates selected to the 2024 class of the Young Alumni Academy.
The academy provides an in-person experience dedicated to enhancing the connection and engagement of young alumni with the university. It offers participants exclusive opportunities for professional development, network-building with other successful alumni, personal meetings with university leaders and behind-the-scenes access to new campus facilities and initiatives. Members meet each month for an eight-month period.
CEFS directors, graduate student researchers present at IEEE ITherm Conference
July 23, 2024 - At the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ITherm Conference held May 28-31 in Denver, Colorado, femtosecond laser surface processing (FLSP) – developed by CEFS researchers and considered a manufacturing method of the future with applications in space, defense and medicine, among many fields – was the focus of two 30-minute tech talks, one each delivered by co-directors Craig Zuhlke and George Gogos.
Zuhlke's talk focused on FLSP's various applications, followed by Gogos presenting specifically on the application of FLSP in enhancing heat transfer for thermal management.
FLSP was also central to five 15-minute student presentations featuring research conducted by CEFS and collaborative research with two other universities. One of those student presentations earned an award for best paper runner-up.
Student presentations from CEFS
- “Enhancing Minichannel Flow Boiling With Femtosecond Laser Surface Processed Stainless Steel Surfaces in Water,” Logan Pettit (lead author), Josh Gerdes, Andrew Reicks, Craig Zuhlke, George Gogos, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
- “Microchannel Flow Boiling Enhancement of PF-5060 With Femtosecond Laser Surface Processed Aluminum 6061,” Josh Gerdes (lead author), Logan Pettit, Andrew Reicks, Craig Zuhlke, George Gogos, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
- “Atmospheric Water Vapor Condensation on Ultra-Short Pulsed Laser Surface Processsed Copper,” Arani Mukhopadhyay (lead author), Anish Pal, Graham Kaufman, Craig Zuhlke, George Gogos, Ranjhan Ganguly, Constantine Megaridis; University of Illinois Chicago, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Jadavpur University.
- “Revolutionizing Electronic Cooling: Ultra-Short Pulsed Laser Processed Surfaces in Wick-Free Vapor Chambers,” Anish Pal (lead author), Graham Kaufman, Craig Zuhlke, George Gogos, Constantine Megaridis; University of Illinois Chicago, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
- Best Paper Runner-Up: “Characterization of Enhanced Two-Phase Jet Impingement on Femtosecond Laser Surface Processed (FLSP) Aluminum Surfaces,” Alexander Ceperley (lead author), Gopinath Sahu, Andrew Reicks, Craig Zuhlke, George Gogos, Justin A. Weibel; Purdue University, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Seven Nebraska Engineering students selected for Mortar Board or Innocents Society
April 19, 2024 - At the April 13 Ivy Day ceremony, seven students from the College of Engineering were honored for being chosen to join either Innocents Society or the Black Masque chapter of Mortar Board.
The Innocents Society inducts 13 new members each spring, with selection based on leadership, academic achievement and service to the university and greater community. The Innocents Society was founded in 1903 to promote the spirit of the university and is the chancellor’s senior honorary.
New members of Mortar Board are tapped into the Black Masque Chapter each spring by Mortar Boarders wearing black masks and robes. The 31 new members were selected based on scholarship, leadership and service.
The Nebraska Engineering students honored at the ceremony, with hometown, major and parents' names:
Innocents Society
- Brooke Bode, Hershey, mechanical engineering (Raikes School), Jason and Kelly Bode.
- Spencer Knight, North Liberty, Iowa, civil engineering, Jeff and Summer Knight.
- Hamdan Anwar Sayeed, Kerala, India, software engineering, Anwar Sayeed and Warda Anwar Sayeed.
Mortar Board
- Erin Case, York, computer science, Todd and Carri Case.
- Victoria Chin, Omaha, computer science (Raikes School), Victor Chin and Jussan Chao.
- Landry Geiger, Cozad, computer science and mathematics (Raikes School), Jon and Julie Geiger.
- Ehren Smolik, Alma, mechanical engineering, Anton and Debra Smolik.
Three engineering faculty earn College Distinguished Teaching Awards
March 29, 2024 - Three Nebraska Engineering faculty are among the 15 University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty who have been chosen to receive the 2024 College Distinguished Teaching Awards. These awards honor faculty and staff who advance the missions of the university in teaching, research and service. Recipients will be recognized at The Laurels award reception in the fall.
The honored Nebraska Engineering faculty are:
- Deepak Keshwani, associate professor, Biological Systems Engineering
- Seunghee Kim, associate professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Jae Sung Park, associate professor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Five engineering among UNL December graduates completing University Honors Program
December 19, 2023 - At the December 2023 undergraduate commencement ceremony, five Nebraska Engineering students were among the 18 University of Nebraska-Lincoln students recognized for having completed the requirements for the University Honors Program.
These are the Nebraska Engineering students who were recognized, with their respective majors and hometowns:
- Gabriel Clark, software engineering, Lincoln, Nebraska
- Creighton Hughes, mechanical engineering, Omaha, Nebraska
- Allison Metschke, environmental engineering, Omaha, Nebraska
- Abigail Seibel, computer engineering, Omaha, Nebraska
- Samuel Wilkins, agricultural engineering, Ainsworth, Nebraska
To graduate from the Honors Program, students must maintain at least a 3.5 grade-point average, complete a culminating senior project or research thesis, and fulfill other curricular requirements. The 18 students join 271 classmates who graduated from the Honors Program in May and August, the most Honors graduates in a calendar year in the program's 37-year history. This is the sixth consecutive year the number of Honors graduates has increased.
Laraoui's team publishes pair of papers in esteemed journals
May 11, 2023 - Abdelghani Laraoui, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, and his graduate students are part of multidisciplinary research teams that have produced a pair of papers that have been published in the same week in separate industry journals. The Nebraska Engineering researchers are part of Laraoui's Quantum Sensing & Defect Discovery and Spectroscopy Lab in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering.
In the May 9, 2023 edition of ACS Nano, "Nitrogen-Vacancy Magnetometry of Individual Fe-Triazole Spin Crossover Nanorods" highlights the potential of nitrogen vacancy (NV) quantum sensors to study the magnetic properties of spin crossover molecules and molecular magnets. Coating iron triazole nanoparticles with a conductive polymer can enable imaging below 20 nanometers and decreasing the size of the nanoparticles leads to a decrease of stray fields. Mechanical engineering graduate students Adam Erickson and Rupak Timalsina are co-authors.
In the May 4, 2023 edition of Advanced Optical Materials, "Plasmon Enhanced Quantum Properties of Single Photon Emitters with Hybrid Hexagonal Boron Nitride Silver Nanocube Systems" demonstrates a 200 percent plasmonic enhancement of single photon emitters' properties through a strong increase in flourescence. This advancement would be desirable for integrated quantum photonic networks. Ufuk Kilic (research assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering), former ECE faculty Christos Argyropoulos, and graduate students Mohammadjavad Dowran (mechanical engineering) and Andrew Butler (electrical engineering) are co-authors.
Four engineering grad students receive Eisenhower Fellowships
March 10, 2023 - Four Nebraska Engineering graduate students - Weston Kelley, Aaron Lechtenberger, Andrew Loken, and Russell Masterson - have each been selected to receive a Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Transportation for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Loken is a doctoral student in civil engineering, Lechtenberger and Masterson are master's students in civil engineering, and Kelley is a master's student in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics. Loken was also awarded an Eisenhower Fellowship for the 2021-2022 academic year.
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program (DDETFP) provides up to a $10,000 award that helps fund a graduate student's research. The program requires recipients to present their research at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
These four awards increased the college's total to 17 Eisenhower Fellowships that have been awarded to 16 College of Engineering students since 2010 and is the most awarded to Nebraska students in a single academic year.
The DDETFP provides fellowships to students pursuing degrees in transportation-related disciplines. This program advances the transportation workforce by helping attract the nation's brightest minds to the field of transportation, encouraging future transportation professionals to seek advanced degrees, and helping retain top talent in the U.S. transportation industry.
From its initial support of graduate research fellowships in 1983 to the current program's inception in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, the DDETFP has awarded over $50 million to graduate students in the transportation industry. From this investment, fellows have pushed for innovative change in multimodal areas from highway infrastructure to aviation to maritime, making the industry more effective and efficient. Fellows pursue careers in academia, private industry, and public service, serving as leaders across the nation.
Applications for the DDETFP 2023-24 Fellowships are due by April 7. More information can be found on the application portal website.
NEBRASKA ENGINEERING RECIPIENTS OF THE DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER TRANSPORTATION FELLOWSHIP
Cody Stolle (2010-2011)
Cale Stolle (2012-2013)
Tiffany Treviño (2017-2018)
Brock Schroder (2018-2019)
Ricardo Jacome (2018-2021)
Ryan Bickhaus (2018-2021)
Michael Sweigard (2019-2020)
Kellon Ronspies (2019-2020)
Nathan Dowler (2020-2021)
Luis Rodriguez (2020-2021)
Andy Loken (2020-2021, 2022-2023)
Riley Ruskamp (2021-2022)
Aaron Lechtenberger (2022-2023)
Russell Masterson (2022-2023)
Weston Kelley (2022-2023)
Three Nebraska Engineering students earn Air Force You Can Fly scholarships
March 1, 2023 - Three College of Engineering students - Luke Landkamer, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering, Eddie Morrissette, a sophomore majoring in mechanical engineering, and Shelby Stevens, a freshman majoring in computer science, and each a member of the Air Force ROTC program - earned Air Force You Can Fly scholarships. The $3,500 awards are designed to help students explore aviation before they decide on which career field to pursue.
Jiashi Yang publishes book on three-dimensional theory for functional materials
March 1, 2023 - "Mechanics of Functional Materials," authored by Jiashi Yang, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, and recetly published by World Scientific, outlines new methods of approaching studies of elastic, thermal, electric, and magnetic interactions in solids.
Many books on the mechanics of materials treat elastic deformations of solids through one-dimensional models for the extension of rods, torsion of shafts and bending of beams. In functional materials, mechanical, thermal, electric and magnetic fields interact among themselves, and therefore, need a more comprehensive model. Yang's book presents a systematic treatment of the three-dimensional theories for these coupled phenomena and the corresponding one-dimensional models for extension, torsion and bending.
Yang's book adopts a mixed approach by devoting the first half of the book to the development of the three-dimensional theories of elastic, thermal, electric and magnetic fields as well as their interactions in dielectrics, conductors and semiconductors. The remainder of the book presents the one-dimensional models for extension, torsion and bending systematically.
Six Nebraska Engineering faculty chosen to UNL's Research Development Fellows Program 2022-23 cohort
Oct. 20, 2022 - Six College of Engineering faculty are among the 11 University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty members selected to participate in the 15th cohort of the Office of Research and Innovation's Research Development Fellows Program (RDFP).
RDFP is an eight-month program designed to provide full-time Nebraska faculty at the assistant-level rank the information and resources necessary to position themselves for success in securing external funding for their research, scholarship and creative activity. Fellows graduate from the program with an intentional plan for pursuing external funding and strategies that prepare them to write winning proposals.
The fellows, selected through a competitive application process, represent eight departments spanning three colleges and the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The College of Engineering faculty chosen for the 2022-23 cohort are:
- Jessica Deters, mechanical and materials engineering
- Mohammad Hasan, electrical and computer engineering
- Xiaoqi Liu, Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction
- Logan Perry, civil and environmental engineering
- Milad Roohi, Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction
- Jamilla Teixeira, civil and environmental engineering