MME 10-Year Merge Anniversary (2011-2021)
We're celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the successful merge of the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. Enjoy some of the highlights as we emerged into Mechanical & Materials Engineering.
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Yang earns Early Stage Investor Project award
Ruiguo Yang (above), assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, earned an Early Stage Investor Project award from the Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication (NCICB). Yang and Limei Zhang, assistant professor of biochemistry, earned the ESIP awards. Along with partner Armen Petrosyan, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and other researchers, the center focuses on aspects of biomolecular communication within and between cells and tissues. The center's long-term goal is to foster the development of collaborative research teams with broad disciplinary representation to interrogate complex disease pathways.
Li, Turner earn UNL College Distinguished Teaching Awards
Yusong Li (left), associate professor of civil engineering, and Joseph Turner, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, were among the 12 University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty chosen to receive the 2017 College Distinguished Teaching Awards.
SME names Rao one of 17 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineers
Prahalad Rao, doctoral candidate and assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, has been selected as one of 17 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineers by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. Rao's research focuses on sensor-based monitoring and diagnosis of complex biophysical and manufacturing processes. His doctorate dissertation was nominated for the university-wide best dissertation award in 2013 and the IIE Pritsker Dissertation Prize in 2014 by the industrial engineering department at Ohio State University.
Qi Wang named NCMN Graduate Research Fellow
Qi Wang, a graduate student in mechanical and materials engineering, has been chosen as a 2017 Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience Graduate Research Fellow. His advisor is Jinsong Huang, professor of mechanical and materials engineering.
Turner, students win ASNT Best Paper Award
Joseph Turner, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, graduate students Christopher Kube and Hualong Du are part of a team that was awarded the 2016 Outstanding Paper Award at a recent meeting of the American Society of Nondestructive Testing (ASNT). The paper -- "Grain Size Measurement of Copper Welding Caps Via Ultrasonic Attenuation and Scattering Experiements" -- was co-authored by three researchers from the University of Windsor (Canada).
Fourteen students receive UCARE undergraduate stipends
UNL's Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) Program has awarded 87 stipends, 14 to engineering undergraduates, to participate in research with a faculty mentor this summer:
Biological Systems Engineering: Janelle Adams, Hickman; Victoria Bart, Woodbury, Minnesota; Josiah Johnson, Lincoln; Blake Hass, West Point; and Alexandra Hruby, Omaha.
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering: Braden Harm, Grove City, Ohio; Joshua Mueller, Bellevue; Brynne Schwabauer, Portland, Oregon; and Matthew Sis, Bellevue.
Electrical and Computer Engineering: Phuong Ninh, Lincoln; and Timothy Carlson, Norfolk.
Mechanical and Materials Engineering: Hamood Al Rahbi, Lincoln; Matthew Bock, Omaha; and Beau Marth, Lincoln.
Five engineering students chosen as Chancellor's Scholars
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. Chancellor's Scholars are students who graduated in December or will receive their degrees in May or August and have maintained a 4.0 grade-point average on all collegiate work at UNL and elsewhere.
Berger receives NIRSA Wasson Award
Jonathan Berger, a senior in mechanical engineering, was one of four UNL students chosen to receive the William N. Wasson Student Leadership and Academic Award presented at the annual NIRSA national conference April 3-6 in Kissimmee, Florida. The award is given to 24 undergraduate and 12 graduate students nationwide and recognizes active participants, employees or volunteers in collegiate recrational sports departments. UNL leads the nation with 74 recipients since the award's inception in 1993 and is the only institution to have at least one Wasson winner every year the award has been given.
Shao earns MRS Graduate Student Gold Award
Yuchuan Shao, a graduate student in mechanical and materials engineering, has been chosen as one of seven receipients of the 2016 Materials Research Society's Graduate Student Gold Award.
Bobaru, Zhang publish study in International Journal of Fracture
Florin Bobaru, professor of mechanical and material engineering, and Guanfeng Zhang, graduate student in engineering, were invited to publish a study in the 50th-anniversary issue of the International Journal of Fracture. By comparing a series of model-based simulations with experimental results, the study helps resolve the long-standing question of how cracks branch — split into two or more cracks — and propagate through brittle materials such as glass.