Mechanical & Materials Engineering News

Benjamin Terry, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, holds a prototype of his team's tapeworm-inspired attachment mechanism. The device adhered to the wall of a live intestine for six days.
July 09, 2015 - UNL engineers have designed an adhesive mechanism that could allow ingestible cameras and biosensors to hang around the digestive system for unprecedented lengths of time.  Full Story

Linxia Gu, associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering, is lead author in a study that examines how improvised explosive devices impact blood vessel networks and can lead to traumatic brain injury. (Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communications)
July 06, 2015 - Linxia Gu, associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering, and a team of UNL engineers have found that blast waves from concussive explosions may put far greater strain on the brain than previously thought.  Full Story

Shane Farritor (left), MME professor, and Dmitry Oleynikov, director of UNMC's Center for Advanced Surgical Technology, have spent more than a decade developing small surgical robots.
May 29, 2015 - UNL professor's development of small surgical robots evokes the 1960s movie "Fantastic Voyage," but provides a glimpse of the future of surgery.  Full Story

Florin Bobaru, professor of mechanical and materials engineering
May 12, 2015 - The research of Florin Bobaru, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, on modeling corrosion damage has generated international news attention recently.  Full Story

Husker Motorsports team members work to repair the car on June 19 after its clutch pin was sheared.
May 01, 2015 - From Formula SAE racing to other student design competitions, Nebraska Engineering students have succeeded in gaining national and international recognition. Here’s a look at some of the recent successes for UNL teams and events coming up:  Full Story

Li Tan, associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering.
April 20, 2015 - <span>A team of UNL researchers has developed a structure that can begin mimicking patterns and designs by replicating color and texture within seconds of exposure to pulses of light.&nbsp;</span>  Full Story

Tom Frederick, a graduate student in mechanical engineering and applied sciences.
April 08, 2015 - A business co-founded by Tom Frederick, a graduate student in mechanical engineering and applied sciences, won a $50,000 prize on Tuesday in a UNL competition and could be headed for even bigger things.  Full Story

Research by UNL's (from left) Ziguang Chen and Florin Bobaru has led to the creation of a new model that better predicts the effects of corrosion. The study was published in the Feb. 27 online edition of the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. Photo by Scott Schrage | University Communications
March 18, 2015 - UNL engineers Florin Bobaru, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, and Ziguang Chen, postdoctoral researcher, are the first to develop a model that looks beyond the surface of corrosion to better predict its spread.  Full Story

Joe Turner
March 02, 2015 - <span>A collaboration between UNL engineers and Purdue University plant biologists helped researchers gain a better understanding of how plant cells grow and gain their shapes. Their results are published in the March 2 edition of Nature: Plants.</span>  Full Story

Dr. Jung Yul Lim
February 23, 2015 - A video about research done at UNL by Jung Yul Lim, associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering, into ways of controlling obesity on NSF's Science360 News web site.  Full Story