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)
Two engineering faculty earn teaching honors
John Barton, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, and Aemal Khattak, associate professor of civil engineering, are among 15 UNL recipients of the 2015 College Distinguished Teaching Awards.
Video profiles MME professor's research controlling obesity
Research done by Jung Yul Lim, associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering, into ways of controlling obesity is the focus of a video on NSF's Science360 News web site.
Tools made by UNL engineers reveal life in Antarctica
The Weather Channel has released a video highlighting how a hot-water drill and an underwater robotic vehicle - both designed, built and operated by a UNL engineering team - have helped scientists in making discoveries about Antarctica's geology and biology
Engineering grad students earn UNL honors
Two graduate students from the College of Engineering were among those honored on Jan. 15 at the Graduate Awards Reception at the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center. Mechanical and Materials Engineering graduate student Yuchuan Shao was selected to receive the Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award for his work with MME assistant professor Jinsong Huang. Shao also received the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience Fellowship. Phillipp Kuehne, a graduate student in Electrical Engineering, was one of three graduate students given the Folsom Distinguished Dissertation Award.
McNair Scholars Program picks three engineering students
Three UNL engineering students were chosen to take part in UNL's McNair Scholars Program for the fall semester of the 2014-15 academic year -- Brittney Bridger-Burton, a mechanical engineering major; and Zully Perez Sierra, a chemical engineering major -- were chosen to the McNair Cohort; and Daniel Rico, a biological systems engineering major, was chosen a McNair Scholar.
Five engineering students among homecoming royalty
Five engineering students - Joseph Farley (mechanical), Zach Foster (chemical), Shane Manning (agricultural), Mary Pistillo (mechanical) and Claire Uryasz (biological systems) - are among the 20 UNL students chosen as homecoming royalty finalists.