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Brad Nydahl
April 20, 2011 - <span>Brad Nydahl, CEO of Howard S. Wright Construction, was named the 2011 Construction Management Alumnus of the Year by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction.</span>  Full Story

Timothy Wei
April 18, 2011 - <span>Timothy Wei, of the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been selected as the new dean of the College of Engineering&nbsp;</span><span>at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.</span>  Full Story

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April 15, 2011 - <span>Nebraska Engineering students committed to “Solving Tomorrow’s Problems Today,” with project displays and hands-on activities for future engineers: Friday April 15 in Othmer Hall at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus.</span>  Full Story

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April 13, 2011 - <span>Walter Bircher of Omaha, a freshman mechanical engineering major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will spend the summer studying in Bursa, Turkey, on a Critical Language Scholarship.</span>  Full Story

Members of Nebraska Engineering's I-SAVE team stand with their prototype energy monitoring device. From left to right are Evans Sordiashie, Hosen Hasna, Xueyi Wang, Tim Wisnieski, Mahmoud Alahmad, Wisam Nader, Sean Bergstedt and Caitlin Brow.
April 12, 2011 - <span>Earth Day is officially April 22, but it's a year-round pursuit for students in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln&nbsp;</span><a href="/">College of Engineering</a><span>&nbsp;working on the I-SAVE project.&nbsp;</span>  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

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April 08, 2011 - <span>This month, the National Science Foundation awarded Graduate Research Fellowships to recipients nationwide, including four students at the UNL College of Engineering.</span>  Full Story

Jeffrey Lopez
April 06, 2011 - <span>Jeffrey Lopez, a junior studying chemical engineering, has been awarded a 2011 Goldwater Scholarship.</span>  Full Story

UNL's microgravity team (l-r): Associate Professor Carl Nelson, team adviser; Jake Reher, junior, Omaha; Chase Blazek, sophomore, Bellevue; Joan Yule, junior, Bloomfield; Eric Fritz, sophomore, Atkinson; Bethany Drain, sophomore, Elkhorn; Jake Lewis, senior, Las Vegas, Nev.; Lena Butterfield, senior, Omaha; Eldon Summerson, senior, North Platte; Devin Bertsch, senior, Omaha.
March 22, 2011 - <span>A team of University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering students will travel to Houston's Johnson Space Center to conduct research for NASA that will have them floating on-board reduced gravity missions, March 31 through April 9.</span>  Full Story

Culler Middle School student Carlos Mendoza shares learning from his Roads, Rails and Race Cars experiences, mentored by Nebraska Engineering representatives including (from left, in red lanyards) civil engineering graduate student Scott Sorensen and Professor Larry Rilett.
March 10, 2011 - <span>Twenty students rev their engines for science, technology, engineering and mathematics learning with Roads, Rails and Race Cars, an after-school club at Lincoln’s Culler Middle School.</span>  Full Story