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.
Read MME 10-Year Magazine (PDF)
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.
Nebraska Engineering/UNMC research team honored for surgical robot
A surgical robot developed in collaboration between Shane Farritor, a professor mechanical and materials engineering at UNL, and Dmitry Oleynikov, a professor and surgeon at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, was recently named a prestigious Game Changer Award winner by Robotics Business Review.
Four engineering students among homecoming royalty finalists
Four College of Engineering students - Jonathan Berger (mechanical and materials engineering), Christopher Davidson (biological systems engineering), Ryan Drvol (mechanical and materials engineering) and Kathryn Rentfro (chemical and biomedical engineering) - are among the 20 UNL seniors selected as 2015 homecoming royalty finalists. The king and queen will be elected by the student body in an online vote Thursday and will be crowned at halftime of Nebraska's football game against Southern Miss, which begins Saturday at 11 a.m.
Huang heads portion of solar cell project
Jinsong Huang, associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering, is heading the UNL portion of a new solar cell project led by Brown University and funded by the National Science Foundation. With $1.3 million of NSF support, Huang’s team will explore molecular-level properties of cells made from perovskite, a class of cost-efficient crystalline materials that represent a promising alternative to industry standard silicon.
UNL engineers' manuscript chosen for ACS Editors Choice
A manuscript - "Color and Texture Morphing with Colloids on Multilayered Surfaces" - by UNL mechanical and materials engineers has been chosen for publication by the American Chemical Society and was featured as in the Editors' Choice section on the group's website. The authors of the paper are associate professor Li Tan, professor George Gogos, postdoctoral research associate Ziguang Chen, and students Shumin Li and Andrew Arkebauer.