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College of Engineering News Archives

A Durham School team was among the winners at the JUMP into STEM national finals.
April 19, 2024 - A team of Nebraska undergraduate architectural engineering students was selected as one of four winners at the sixth annual JUMP into STEM finals competition, held Jan. 25-26 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Knoxville, Tennessee.  Full Story

April 16, 2024 - Christine Wittich has received a five-year NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program grant to improve the resilience of rural infrastructure and communities, particularly grain bins, in the face of natural disasters such as wind storms and earthquakes.  Full Story

(top row, from left) Stuart Bernstein, Shubhendu Bhardwaj, Chris Bourke, Bai Chi, Derek Heeren; (center row) Michael Hempel, Kelly Kopocis, Keegan Moore, Ryan Pedrigi; (bottom row) Santosh Pitla, Eva Schubert, Cody Stolle, Rebecca Wachs, Christine Wittich
April 16, 2024 - Fourteen faculty from the College of Engineering are among the 100 faculty to whom the University of Nebraska–Lincoln will award promotion and/or tenure in 2024.  Full Story

Nicole Iverson (left), Carley Conover (center) and Katie Mowat.
April 12, 2024 - Nicole Iverson, associate professor of biological systems engineering, and students Katie Mowat and Carley Conover were among 15 honorees at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's annual Women of Courage, Character and Commitment Celebration on March 20.  Full Story

Students who led the winning projects at the 2024 Engineering Pitch Competition are (from left) Patrick McManigal, Brooke Bode and Alyssa Grube.
April 08, 2024 - Nebraska Engineering students Patrick McManigal, Brooke Bode and Alyssa Grube earned the top three places April 2 at the 2024 Engineering Pitch Competition, held at the Willa Cather Dining Complex.  Full Story

Nebraska AXP team members (left) launched balloons in Roswell, New Mexico during the October 2023 annular eclipse and will launch two balloons on April 8, 2024 during a total eclipse as part of the Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project, for which mechanical engineering student Isaac Cade designed the logo (right).
April 04, 2024 - A team of Nebraska students will launch two balloons in southeastern Missouri on April 8. The balloons will carry experiments as payloads to take advantage of the rare total eclipse.  Full Story

Chemical engineering doctoral students Karen Acurio (left) and Alyssa Grube.
April 04, 2024 - Chemical Engineering doctoral students Karen Acurio and Alyssa Grube have been selected to participate in the Epistimi-ACG-LUCE Summer Leadership Workshop for Women in Energy for a week in July in Athens, Greece.  Full Story

Nebraska researchers George Gogos (third from left), Craig Zhulke and Jeffrey Shield are part of a $9.2 million Department of Defense DARPA grant that could bring UNL up to $2.6 million for the team's research to develop stackable three-dimensional microchips with controllable hot spots to improve performance in future electronic architectures. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
March 29, 2024 - Nebraska Engineering researchers are poised to build on their track records as innovators and leaders in heat transfer and thermal management in the first phase of a $9.2M DARPA team grant to develop scalable technologies to control "hot spots."  Full Story

Using new mixes of metals and state-of-the-art 3D printing in Nebraska's NEAT Labs, Joseph Turner's team developed roller bearings for railcars that tested to be just as robust as those produced with conventional techniques. This, Turner said, could open a pathway to new ways to making these bearings. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
March 29, 2024 - When Nebraska Engineering researchers began cooking up new recipes for manufacturing railcar bearing components, they found new powders and production techniques offer robust alternatives that could change future production techniques.  Full Story

Chun-Hsing Ho, associate professor in the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction.
March 26, 2024 - Chun-Hsing (Jun) Ho, associate professor in the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction, has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for the 2024-25 academic year.  Full Story