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Jinsong Huang, Susan J. Rosowski associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering
January 13, 2016 - Three UNL mechanical and materials engineering researchers have discovered a way to make perovskite-based solar cells more competitive with those made from more-expensive silicon.  Full Story

The UNL College of Engineering's Master of Engineering Management program ranks 12th in the U.S. News & World Report's 2016 Best Online Graduate Engineering Programs rankings.
January 12, 2016 - With its Master of Engineering Management program leading the way, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering is ranked 12th in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2016 rankings of the best Graduate Engineering Programs.  Full Story

Jinsong Huang and colleagues in his lab
December 22, 2015 - Solar energy remains tantalizingly out of reach as a widely used power source, but a UNL engineer is making big strides in his quest to harness the sun.  Full Story

UNL climate change and groundwater quality team, from left: Yusong Li, civil engineering; Zhenghong Tang, community and regional planning; Shannon Bartelt-Hunt and Xu Li, civil engineering; Dan Snow, Nebraska Water Center; and Eric Thompson, economics. Not pictured, David Rosenbaum, economics.
December 22, 2015 - An interdisciplinary team of UNL researchers is investigating the climate’s effect on groundwater contamination from chemicals used in crop and animal production, including indirect effects from land use changes.  Full Story

Lily Wang and Jim Bovaird
December 22, 2015 - An interdisciplinary UNL team aims to find out if that humming HVAC system in the classroom could be harming kids' ability to learn.  Full Story

Lou Leviticus was a longtime professor of agricultural engineering and director of the Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory on UNL's East Campus.
December 15, 2015 - Lou Leviticus, a Holocaust survivor and longtime professor of agricultural engineering at UNL, died Saturday after suffering complications from a stroke. He was 84.  Full Story

Brenna Boyd, a junior in architectural engineering.
December 09, 2015 - An acoustical study performed by Brenna Boyd, a UNL junior architectural engineering major, suggests loud cheering at hockey games probably doesn’t help the home team and might be detrimental to the fans in the stands.  Full Story

Seventeen teams of students designed cars for the annual Incredible Edible Vehicle Competition.
December 08, 2015 - One car dominated in distance and fuel economy, but in the end it was consistency that led to victory for one student team in the annual Incredible, Edible Vehicle Competiton at the East Campus Union.  Full Story

Electrical and computer engineering students (from left) Alexander Meier, Sarah Porath and Drew Wiseman have received IEEE Power & Energy Society scholarships. Jacob Eckstrom, who also received one of the scholarships, is not pictured.
December 04, 2015 - Four UNL electrical engineering students – Jacob Eckstrom, Alexander Meier, Sarah Porath and Drew Wiseman – have been awarded $2,000 scholarships through the IEEE Power & Energy Society Scholarship Plus Initiative.  Full Story

Students will race and then eat vehicles at annual competition.
December 04, 2015 - <span>Introductory biological systems and agricultural engineering students will race and then eat vehicles they design as part of the Incredible, Edible Vehicle Competition on Dec. 8 from 2-4 p.m. in the East Union's Great Plains Room.</span>  Full Story