Mechanical & Materials Engineering News

In a building that used to house the Cornhusker football team, engineering faculty are playing a big role in the Nebraska Intelligent Mobile Unmanned Systems (NIMBUS) lab developing the future of drone technology.
February 17, 2016 - In a building that used to house the Cornhusker football team, engineering faculty are playing a big role in the Nebraska Intelligent Mobile Unmanned Systems (NIMBUS) lab developing the future of drone technology.  Full Story

Eli Sutter, professor of mechanical and materials engineering.
January 21, 2016 - Eli Sutter, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, has been chosen as co-chair of the Materials Research Society’s 2017 Spring Meeting.  Full Story

Virtual Incision - a startup company co-founded by Shane Farritor (left), a professor of mechanical and materials engineering, and Dmitry Oleynikov, a professor of surgery at UNMC - will move into space at Nebraska Innovation Campus in early 2016.
January 15, 2016 - Virtual Incision Corp., a startup company co-founded by mechanical and materials engineering professor Shane Farritor and UNMC's Dmitry Oleynikov, will join Nebraska Innovation Campus in early 2016.  Full Story

Jinsong Huang, Susan J. Rosowski associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering
January 13, 2016 - Three UNL mechanical and materials engineering researchers have discovered a way to make perovskite-based solar cells more competitive with those made from more-expensive silicon.  Full Story

Jinsong Huang and colleagues in his lab
December 22, 2015 - Solar energy remains tantalizingly out of reach as a widely used power source, but a UNL engineer is making big strides in his quest to harness the sun.  Full Story

Morris Schneider, former associate dean and longtime college of engineering faculty member.
November 02, 2015 - Former associate dean Morris Schneider, who served the College of Engineering for nearly six decades (including more than 40 years as a faculty member and administrator), died October 28 at age 91.  Full Story

Put A Sock In It accepts donated socks at 85 locations across UNL's campuses and has distributed more than 3,000 pairs to people in need.
October 27, 2015 - Put A Sock In It, a nonprofit organization founded by three UNL students, is putting its collective engineering experience toward helping Lincoln's homeless population and is also finding a foothold nationally.  Full Story

Shane Farritor, Lederer Professor of Engineering and a professor of mechanical and materials engineering, will give a free public lecture on Oct. 27 at Nebraska Innovation Campus.
October 15, 2015 - Shane Farritor, a professor of mechanical and materials engineering, will discuss the roles of creativity and risk-taking in innovation as he gives the fall Nebraska Lecture on Oct. 27  at the Nebraska Innovation Campus Conference Center.  Full Story

Sitting in NASA's Test Com room at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, UNL Air and Space Research team members instruct divers on how to use a tool they had designed for possible use in space.
September 25, 2015 - A sample collection tool designed by students on UNL's Air and Space Research team impressed NASA engineers at a design challenge at Johnson Space Center and could influence how NASA designs tools for use in space.  Full Story

Sidy Ndao (left), associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering, examines a student team's assembled robot at the SenEcole robotics camp in Dakar, Senegal this past March.
September 15, 2015 - Sidy Ndao, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, hopes to provide new opportunties to children in Africa through the robotics camps he runs in his native Senegal.  Full Story