Mechanical & Materials Engineering News

Nebraska’s Shane Farritor is the inaugural winner of the University of Nebraska’s Faculty Intellectual Property Innovation and Commercialization Award. (Craig Chandler / University Communication)
April 15, 2022 - Shane Farritor, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, was selected as the inaugural winner of the NU system's Faculty Intellectual Property Innovation and Commercialization Award.  Full Story

Ruiguo Yang, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, is using a $540,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program to explore how cell-cell bridges respond to strains of different magnitudes and rates. (Craig Chandler / University Communication)
April 13, 2022 - Ruiguo Yang is examining how cell-cell junctions — protein structures that enable cells to attach to neighboring cells — respond to the wide range of strains they're subjected to every day, such as cardiac pulses, stretching of the skin and peristalsis  Full Story

Prize winners at the March 23 Engineering Pitch Competition were: First place – Auto Planter, Ian Tempelmeyer (grad student in biological systems engineering); second place – Transverse Direct Drive, Matthew Penne (grad student in electrical and computer engineering); third place – UNL Maker Group, Isaac Regier (senior in mechanical and materials engineering) and Brendan Colford (senior in architecture).
April 08, 2022 - Ian Tempelmeyer, a graduate student in biological systems engineering, won first place in the Engineering Pitch Competition on March 23 for a pitch on a robotic system with a planter attachment to aid corn farmers.  Full Story

Lasers in the Center for Electro-Optics and Functionalized Surfaces are creating surfaces that can help keep power lines from freezing and whipping in the wind. (KETV)
March 25, 2022 - Nebraska Engineering faculty and students working with femtosecond lasers in the Center for Electro-Optics and Functionalized Surfaces are creating surfaces that can help keep power lines from freezing and whipping in the wind.  Full Story

Felicity Sierra, freshman mechanical engineering major, listens to a career panel in the Kiewit Scholars Program. (Craig Chandler / University Communication)
March 25, 2022 - Felicity Sierra, a freshman from Chicago, is charting her own path in engineering as one of 10 students chosen to the inaugural cohort of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering's Kiewit Scholars Program.  Full Story

Eric Markvicka, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering.
March 03, 2022 - Erick Markvicka, who grew up helping on his grandparents' farm and was inspired by fellow Ravenna native and Nebraska Engineering professor Shane Farritor, is working to create a future where humans and technology work together more intimately.  Full Story

On June 28, 2021, the College of Engineering held a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the beginning of construction on Kiewit Hall.
February 16, 2022 - The College of Engineering experienced a year of major milestones and growth in 2021, even as the college and the University of Nebraska system continued to deal with the changing demands of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Full Story

Carl Nelson, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, has been named a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors. (Craig Chandler / University Communication)
February 11, 2022 - Carl Nelson, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, has been elected a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors. His work has resulted in 12 patents in surgical robotics and rehabilitation engineering.  Full Story

Jae Sung Park, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, aims to solve one of the great problems in science — discovering patterns or orders in turbulent flows and then developing methods of exploiting those orders to mitigate their impact on the world. (Craig Chandler / University Communication)
February 04, 2022 - With a five-year, $508,780 Early Career award from the National Science Foundation, Jae Sung Park aims to discover patterns or orders in turbulent flows of gases and liquids, and then developing methods of exploiting those orders to mitigate their impact  Full Story

Keegan Moore, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering.
January 10, 2022 - By working “backwards,” Nebraska Engineering’s Keegan Moore looks to use an AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program grant to refine the test and modeling process to build computer models that more often match physical realities.  Full Story