Mechanical & Materials Engineering News

The UNL SAE team sits with their car.
October 28, 2011 - <span>SAE International is seeking volunteers for its 2012 Formula SAE Lincoln competition, to be held June 20-23 at the Lincoln Airpark in Lincoln, Neb.</span>  Full Story

Shane Farritor
October 12, 2011 - <span>An Innovation Seminar Series at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will offer free sessions providing tools to foster creativity and new thinking approaches.</span>  Full Story

Carl Nelson and the ICARE device.
September 15, 2011 - Mechanical engineering professor Carl Nelson's fascination with the mechanics of human motion led him to a local collaboration that could have world-reaching potential.  Full Story

Sally and Wil Hergenrader
April 11, 2011 - <span>German descendent Wil Hergenrader practically grew up on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln campus in the 1930s and 40s. He’d walk through campus, always ending up at his favorite spot: the College of Engineering.</span>  Full Story

Assistant Professor Jinsong Huang advances organic solar cell materials development in his lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering. Huang's innovation applies ferroelectric polymer layers in organic solar cells, a breakthrough that greatly increases the energy efficiency of these photovoltaic devices—which also have lower manufacturing costs—versus traditional silicon-based products.
February 17, 2011 - <span>Jinsong Huang, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, applied ferroelectric polymer layers in the structure of organic solar cells, to make energy harvesting more efficient and with less expensive materials.</span>  Full Story

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December 17, 2009 - <span>The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will send its fourth team in three years to NASA’s prestigious Microgravity University.</span>  Full Story

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August 05, 2009 - <span>The NASA Nebraska Space Grant and EPSCoR office at the University of Nebraska at Omaha has announced that two University of Nebraska-Lincoln professors have been awarded NASA EPSCoR grants of $750,000 each.</span>  Full Story

Andrew Kelley
July 02, 2009 - <span>Andrew Kelley, a UNL senior from Lincoln who majors in mechanical engineering, was chosen as one of NASA's first-ever Student Ambassadors.</span>  Full Story

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June 26, 2009 - Five UNL College of Engineering students earned highly selective Graduate Research Fellowships in 2009 from the National Science Foundation.  Full Story

Yuris Dzenis
June 18, 2009 - <span>Yuris Dzenis, R. Vernon McBroom Professor of Engineering Mechanics at UNL, on a research team that will receive $7.5 million from the U.S. Army Research Office to create stronger fibers for improved defense materials such as flexible armor.</span>  Full Story