Mechanical & Materials Engineering News

Jinsong Huang
January 08, 2014 - <span>The next wave of electronics, using organic thin film transistors instead of silicon, is gaining momentum with new research by engineering faculty at UNL and Stanford University.</span>  Full Story

Bin Yang (left) receives a Gold Award from Orlando Auciello, president of the Materials Research Society.
December 04, 2013 - <span>Bin Yang, a doctoral student with mechanical and materials engineering, received a Gold Award for his research on "Fullerene Based Organic Schottky-Junction Devices for Large Open-Circuit Voltage Organic Solar Cells."</span>  Full Story

Research by Li Tan is featured in the Nov. 13 edition of the journal Advanced Materials
November 13, 2013 - <span>Research by Li Tan&nbsp;</span><span>and a team of international scientists was featured in the Nov. 13 edition of the journal&nbsp;</span><em>Advanced Materials</em><span>.</span>  Full Story

Jinsong Huang, assistant professor of mechanical engineering
November 12, 2013 - The Sunday with a Scientist program at the University of Nebraska State Museum of Natural History will feature the research of Jinsong Huang, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering.  Full Story

Hasan Otu, an alunnus of the College of Engineering, speaks to students as he joins the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering, bringing his focus on bioinformatics to teaching and research at Nebraska.
September 24, 2013 - <span>The UNL College of Engineering introduces its newest faculty members.</span>  Full Story

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May 30, 2013 - <span>Joe Turner, Robert W. Brightfelt Professor with UNL Mechanical &amp; Materials Engineering, receives</span><span>&nbsp;a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation</span><span>&nbsp;in Germany.</span>  Full Story

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March 21, 2013 - <span>When most tough fibres are stretched to make them thinner, they become brittle. But a group led by Yuris Dzenis at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln has shown that this is not always the case.</span>  Full Story

A UNL team led by Yuris Dzenis (left) is making continuous carbon nanofibers, which offer advantages over nanotubes alone in structural materials. Images on the right are from Northwestern University via ACS Nano.
March 14, 2013 - <span>University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineers have demonstrated a promising new way to exploit carbon nanotubes' unusual structure and properties more easily and less expensively.</span>  Full Story

The UNL RASC-AL Robo-Ops team of engineering students must build a rover and remotely navigate it through obstacles in a NASA-sponsored competition versus other selected university teams' rovers. The team includes (from left): Allison Miller, Alex Adams, Eric Markvicka, Mark Reichenbach, Joe Bartels, Effie Greene, Lukas Renker and Kearney Lackas. Not pictured: Tom Frederick and Walter Bircher.
March 12, 2013 - <span>The University of Nebraska-Lincoln was one of eight teams chosen to compete in the 2013 RASC-AL Exploration Robo-Ops Competition, an engineering challenge sponsored by NASA and organized by the National Institute of Aerospace.</span>  Full Story

Linxia Gu
March 06, 2013 - <span>Each year, more than a million Americans receive stents to prop open clogged heart arteries and other blood vessels, a<span>&nbsp;UNL engineer’s research may help save millions of people from</span>&nbsp;high risk for suffering reblockages.</span>  Full Story