March 25, 2016 - Sticks and stones may break bones, but a research group led by UNL mechanical and materials engineering faculty and post doctoral researchers has set out to ensure that the ensuing X-ray will never hurt you.
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March 18, 2016 - A unique team of UNL engineering and business students will travel to Uganda over spring break to complete an engineering capstone and social entrepreneurship project to assist an organization that helps marginalized women.
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March 02, 2016 - Virtual Incision Corp., a company co-founded Shane Farritor, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, announced a first successful in-human use of its robotic surgical device.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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