Mechanical & Materials Engineering News

Carl Nelson displays a walker device that finished among the top devices entered in the 2014 Design of Medical Devices Conference "Three-in-Five" competition.
April 29, 2014 - <span>An engineering concept designed at UNL was ranked among the top three finishers at the annual Design of Medical Devices Conference "Three in Five" competition.</span>  Full Story

Andrew Dickinson From left: Sawyer Jager, Tricia Foley, Erik Moore, Prof. Carl Nelson, Blake Stewart, Piotr Slawinski, Nick Goeser, Christian Laney, Shawn Schumacher, Luke Monhollon, Maggie Clay, Ethan Monhollon, Alfred Tsubaki, Victor Torres, Weston Lewis, Effie Greene, Prof. Ben Terry. Not pictured: Ty Rempe, Dustin Dam.
February 19, 2014 - With work on surgical robotics happening daily at UNL’s College of Engineering, students will reach new heights— literally, 35,000 feet — to conduct research for NASA on robotic surgery for space travel.  Full Story

Ben Terry, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and graduate student Nathan Legband, in the small animal operating room. The Jan. 15 edition of the journal Biomaterials included work by Terry and Mark Borden of the University of Colorado, who collaborated to develop a new way for providing oxygen to people whose lungs cease to function.
January 27, 2014 - <span>Doctors could have more treatment options when a patient can’t breathe, thanks to an innovative procedure from research by faculty with the University of Colorado-Boulder and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.</span>  Full Story

After recovering from a car-bike collision, UNL mechanical engineering student Isra Somanas (right) returns to a favorite hobby: dancing at Lincoln’s Pla Mor Ballroom. At left is a dance partner, UNL student Liz Merrett. Photo courtesy Alan Dasenbrock.
January 15, 2014 - <span>Among UNL students returning to classes for the Spring 2014 semester is Isra Somanas, a mechanical engineering senior who spent the past six months recovering from a near-fatal accident.</span>  Full Story

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