Mechanical & Materials Engineering News

Ryan Green, a junior in mechanical engineering, received a get-ready order for possible deployment to help with hurricane recovery efforts in Texas. Green is a specialist with the Nebraska Army National Guard, Company T, 2-104th General Support Aviation Battalion.
September 01, 2017 - As the flood waters begin to recede in Texas, mechanical engineering student Ryan Green awaits a possible Nebraska Army National Guard deployment. Student veteran support services on campus are helping Green navigate this uncertain time.  Full Story

Shane Farritor, professor of engineering at Nebraska and director of Nebraska Innovation Studio, leads a workshop in the Nebraska Innovation Campus makerspace. A new project led by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will establish an Innovation Makerspace Co-Laboratory in Sidney.
August 23, 2017 - Starting in Sidney, a new project led by the University - including College of Engineering faculty Shane Farritor and Jennifer Keshwani - aims to build a network of makerspaces around the state in small towns and places they wouldn't normally exist.  Full Story

Prahalada Rao
August 08, 2017 - Prahalada Rao, assistant professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, was named one of 17 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineers nationally, age 35 or younger, for his exceptional contributions and accomplishments in the manufacturing industry.  Full Story

A study by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Midwest Roadside Safety Facility shows that increasing the height of guardrail systems from 31 to 36 inches could better protect drivers on U.S. highways and interstates.
July 26, 2017 - A study by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Midwest Roadside Safety Facility shows that increasing the height of guardrail systems from 31 to 36 inches could better protect drivers on U.S. highways and interstates.  Full Story

Marieme Toure, from Dakar, adjusts her team's robot at the 2017 Pan-African Robotics Competition in Dakar, Senegal, May 19, 2017. (R.Shryock/VOA)
June 06, 2017 - The hum of tiny machines fills a fenced-off obstacle course, as small robots compete to gather mock natural resources. The robots were built by teams of young people gathered in Dakar for the annual Pan-African Robotics Competition.  Full Story

Ben Terry, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering.
May 31, 2017 - In the near future, you may monitor your health and diagnose illness – all by swallowing a biosensor. Ben Terry, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, discusses this technology in an ASME video.  Full Story

Clayton Anderson (right), a retired U.S. astronaut, worked with Nebraska's Shane Farritor (left) to pilot a surgical robot remotely on May 23. The robot, developed by Farritor and the University of Nebraska Medical Center's Dmitry Oleynikov, is designed to perform abdominal surgery.
May 25, 2017 - On May 23, retired astronaut Clayton Anderson worked with engineering professor Shane Farritor to remotely pilot a surgical robot designed for performing abdominal surgery to test how it might be used in space.  Full Story

Zachary Meade (left), an electrical and computer engineering major, and Scott Schenkelberg, who graduated May 6 with a degree in mechanical engineering, were chosen winners of the Al and Dorothy Schewe Leadership Awards.
May 12, 2017 - Scott Schenkelberg and Zachary Meade have been selected as the winners of the 2017 Al and Dorothy Schewe Leadership Award, given annually to College of Engineering students in recognition of achievement in leadership within the college.  Full Story

University of Nebraska Mechanical Engineering Professor Benjamin Terry holding an swallowable sensor
May 10, 2017 - In the near future, you may monitor your health and diagnose illness – all by swallowing a biosensor. Ben Terry, professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, describes this technology, which may sound like science fiction to many.  Full Story

Hossein Dehghani, a doctoral candidate in mechanical and materials engineering, holds a prototype of his alternative to the traditional colonoscope that physicians use when searching for pre-cancerous or cancerous polyps in the large intestine.
April 19, 2017 - Hossein Dehghani, doctoral candidate in mechanical and materials engineering, has designed a robotic alternative to the traditional colonoscope that could make the procedure a painless and less costly procedure.  Full Story