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College of Engineering News Archives

Sam Murray, a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering, is teaching an embedded systems class using integrated circuit solutions created by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
March 25, 2022 - Sam Murray, a doctoral student in electrical engineering, developed Electrical and Computer Engineering's embedded systems class (ECEN 398) and is teaching it this semester. Students in the class are using integrated circuit solutions developed in ECE.  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

Rajib Saha, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and graduate student Niaz Bahar Chowdhury have created a genome-scale metabolic model for the corn root to study its nitrogen-use efficiency under nitrogen stress conditions. (University Communication photo)
March 15, 2022 - Rajib Saha and Niaz Bahar Chowdhury are studying how corn roots adapt to insufficient nitrogen, with an eye toward making genetic tweaks that might increase, or at least maintain, plant growth and yields without excessive application of fertilizer.  Full Story

School of Computing Senior Design students (from left) Cole Vaske, Will Swiston and Cody Binder work on their collaborative project with the Nebraska Water Center.
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Angela Pannier, professor and Swarts Family Chair of Biological Systems Engineering.
March 09, 2022 - The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the election of Angela Pannier, Swarts Family Chair of Biological Systems Engineering and Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, to its College of Fellows.  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

Hyperbolic shear polaritons are coupled light-matter waves which were discovered to exist at the surface of monoclinic crystals. Due to the low crystal symmetry, these waves are not mirror-symmetric. (Credit: FHI / Wernerwerke)
March 03, 2022 - Research conducted at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering "planted a seed" for discovery of a new class of materials that could change the way the field of photonics research.  Full Story

Husker Venture Fund awarded its first investment of $25,000 to Jackson Stansell, (second from left) a biological systems engineering doctoral student. Also pictured are HVF students and managing directors Keith Nordling (left), Emily Kist (second from right), and Adam Folsom.
March 03, 2022 - Husker Venture Fund, a student-led venture capital fund, awarded their debut investment of $25,000 to startup Sentinel Fertigation and its founder Jackson Stansell, a doctoral student in biological systems engineering.  Full Story

Josephine Lau, associate professor of architectural engineering, is leading a study of the efficacy of air cleaners in K-12 classrooms and how they impact students' health and learning.
February 17, 2022 - Josephine Lau is aiming to build on results gleaned from a previous federal study to help K-12 schools across Nebraska create better learning environments for students by studying the efficacy and impact of air-cleaning devices.  Full Story