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A Falcon 9 rocket carrying an experimental satellite designed by the Big Red Satellite team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln hurtles toward outer space only seconds after launching from Florida on March 21, 2024. (Screen capture from NASA livestream / YouTube)
March 25, 2024 - A NASA SpaceX rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station launched March 21. Among its payload is an experimental satellite designed and built by a team led by Nebraska Engineering students.  Full Story

A rendering of a stretchable ultrasound device designed by Husker engineers. (Adapted from a figure in Advanced Functional Materials)
March 22, 2024 - A team of Nebraska engineers developed liquid metal droplets with special stretching properties that can be integrated into a wearable ultrasound device prototype.  Full Story

Mehmet Can Vuran, the Dale M. Jensen Chair and Professor of Computing.
March 19, 2024 - Growing up in Turkey, Mehmet Can Vuran would disassemble radios to see what was inside and then put them back together. Today, Vuran teaches wireless communications in the School of Computing and is a world renowned expert in wireless sensor networks.  Full Story

Cesar Leos, doctoral student in mechanical engineering.
March 14, 2024 - Cesar Leos, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering, has been selected to receive the Computational Physics Workshop Fellowship from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico for summer 2024.  Full Story

A camera system developed by Zhigang Shen is able to efficiently identify internal defects in pipelines that shuttle gases nationwide.
March 13, 2024 - A camera system developed by Nebraska’s Zhigang Shen is able to efficiently identify internal defects in pipelines that shuttle gases nationwide.  Full Story

Three Nebraska Engineering faculty have been appointed as NSRI fellows. (University Communication and Marketing)
February 29, 2024 - Three College of Engineering faculty are among the 14 from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln who have been appointed as National Strategic Research Initiative (NSRI) fellows.  Full Story

Research teams in the lab of Abdelghani Laraoui, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, are using a quantum sensing technique his lab developed that could lead to big breakthroughs in data transport technologies and in treating diseases. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
February 28, 2024 - Research teams in the lab of Abdelghani Laraoui are using a quantum sensing technique his lab developed that could lead to big breakthroughs in data transport technologies and in treating diseases.  Full Story

Liyan Qu, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been elected a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors. She is the first Husker woman and fifth UNL researcher overall to receive the recognition since the program launched in 2018. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
February 27, 2024 - Liyan Qu, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been elected a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors, becoming the first Husker woman to receive the recognition and the fifth UNL researcher overall.  Full Story

Jacob Hansen, with ALA Engineering and a Nebraska alumnus, and Kunjan Theo Joseph, with the UNL MAARS Lab, work at making their robotic arm program stack blocks at Nebraska Innovation Studio. The programming would simulate a larger robotic arm stacking pallets. (Deann Gayman / University Communication and Marketing)
February 23, 2024 - Since November 2023, Nebraska Innovation Studio's makerspace has offered training for programming and operation of collaborative and welding robots. The workshops are open to anyone.  Full Story

Students on the Big Red Satellite Team work on their CubeSat satellite, which will be launched into space this March and later deployed from the International Space Station.
February 22, 2024 - A team of Nebraska Engineering, high school and middle school students is counting down to the scheduled March launch of its CubeSat satellite into space for future deployment from the International Space Station.  Full Story