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Travis Deyle, a 2005 computer and electronics engineering graduate, was chosen by MIT Technology Review to receive its "35 Innovators Under 35" award.
August 26, 2015 - Travis Deyle, a senior hardware engineer at Google(X) Life Sciences and a 2005 UNL computer engineering graduate, was chosen by the MIT Technology Review as one of the "35 Innovators Under 35" award winners.  Full Story

Khalid Sayood,
August 26, 2015 - Khalid Sayood, Henson Professor of Engineering in electrical and computer engineering, is a partner in a start-up bioinformatics company that has signed on to be the latest partner at Nebraska Innovation Campus.  Full Story

BRIDGE-ing Big Data Workshop
August 24, 2015 - The college is hosting the<a href="node/2899"> BRIDGE-ing Big Data Workshop</a> Oct. 8-9, 2015, focusing on creating and maintaining safer bridges for the nation's infrastructure. The workshop will be held at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraska.  Full Story

Members of the Quarter-Scale Tractor Team use the latest Computer Aided Design technology to design their award winning tractors.
August 14, 2015 - The University of Nebraska State Museum’s August Sunday with a Scientist program for children and families will showcase quarter-scale tractors and the science behind them.  Full Story

Shane Farritor, Lederer Professor of Engineering and a professor of mechanical and materials engineering, will give the commencement address on Aug. 15 at Pinnacle Bank Arena.
August 04, 2015 - Shane Farritor, Lederer Professor of Engineering, will address the graduates at the summer all-university commencement ceremony on Aug. 15 at Pinnacle Bank Arena.  Full Story

Angela Pannier, associate professor of biological systems engineering.
July 29, 2015 - Angela Pannier, associate professor of biological systems engineering, was one of six federally funded researchers from across the United States briefed Congress on their research and probable advancements that will be made in the next 20 years.  Full Story

Jinsong Huang, Susan J. Rosowski associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering
July 21, 2015 - A study by UNL engineers shows the same quality that keeps foods from sticking to a pan or water to a raincoat can also boost the performance of solar cells.  Full Story

Jung Yul Lim (right), associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering, was awarded the Berton Rahn Research Fund Prize by the AO Foundation at a trustees meeting on June 19.
July 16, 2015 - Jung Yul Lim, associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering, was recently awarded the AO Foundation’s 2015 Berton Rahn Research Fund Prize Award for his research into bone regeneration.  Full Story

Jay Puckett, a professor of civil and architectural engineering at the University of Wyoming, has been chosen as the new director of The Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction.
July 10, 2015 - Jay A. Puckett, V.O. Smith Professor of Civil and Architectural Engineering at the University of Wyoming, has been named director of The Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction.  Full Story

Benjamin Terry, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, holds a prototype of his team's tapeworm-inspired attachment mechanism. The device adhered to the wall of a live intestine for six days.
July 09, 2015 - UNL engineers have designed an adhesive mechanism that could allow ingestible cameras and biosensors to hang around the digestive system for unprecedented lengths of time.  Full Story