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Nebraska Engineering researchers - (top photo from left) Jongwan Eun, Yuris Dzenis, and Seunghee Kim; and (bottom photo from left) Peter Sutter and Eli Sutter. (Photos by University Communication and Marketing)
November 29, 2022 - More than $1.4 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will allow two College of Engineering teams to expand innovative energy-related research in partnership with national laboratories.  Full Story

Ten faculty from the College of Engineering have been honored with new named professorships, bringing to 27 the total of named professorships in the college.
November 22, 2022 - Ten faculty from the College of Engineering have been honored with new named professorships, bringing to 27 the total of named professorships in the college.  Full Story

Nebraska's Angela Pannier, Swarts Family Chair of Biological Systems Engineering, delivered the Nebraska Lecture on Nov. 17, laying out the history of her field and both the challenges and promises ahead.
November 18, 2022 - Angie Pannier delivered the Nebraska Lecture on Nov. 17, laying out the history gene therapy, and both the challenges and promises ahead. “It’s an exciting time to be in this field,” Pannier said.  Full Story

Stuart Bernstein, associate professor in the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction, shares his talk at the Faculty Research and Creative Activity Slam, Nov. 15 at the Wick Alumni Center.
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Nebraska’s Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) Program has awarded academic-year stipends to 43 students in the College of Engineering.
November 11, 2022 - The Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) Program has awarded stipends to 202 Husker undergraduates — including 43 College of Engineering students — to participate in research with a faculty mentor this fall.  Full Story

Members of the Field-Nets research team pose in a soybean field on East Campus with their millimeter wave radios with phased-array antennas. The researchers (from left) are Santosh Pitla, Qiang Liu, Yufeng Ge, Christos Argyropoulos and Mehmet Can Vuran. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
November 09, 2022 - A team of faculty from multiple departments in the College of Engineering is working to design next-generation wireless network for agricultural fields.  Full Story

Rajib Saha, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering.
November 03, 2022 - Rajib Saha is part of a team seek to bioengineer a common defense mechanism most plants develop naturally to protect against environmental stresses, such as drought, ultraviolet rays and insects.  Full Story

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln has received a $2 million gift from alumni Kit Schmoker (left) and her late husband, Dick Schmoker, for an endowed faculty chair in systems engineering at the College of Engineering.
November 01, 2022 - The University of Nebraska–Lincoln has received a $2 million gift from alumna Kit Schmoker and her late husband, university alumnus Dick Schmoker, for an endowed faculty chair in systems engineering at the College of Engineering.  Full Story

Chungwook Sim (center), associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, is joined by alumni Micheal Assad (left) from Kiewit Corporation and David Gee from e.Construct in accepting the ASCE 2022 T.Y. Lin Award.
October 28, 2022 - A civil and environmental engineering research team was chosen to receive the ASCE 2022 T.Y. Lin Award for a paper that proposes flexural design recommendations for precast, pretensioned ultrahigh-performance concrete applications.  Full Story

Daniel Linzell, Leslie D. Martin professor of civil and environmental engineering, explains the MADS-OPP system for bridge health monitoring to invited guests during a demonstration Thursday, October 27, on a decommissioned bridge in northwest Lancaster County.
October 28, 2022 - Leading-edge technology developed by University of Nebraska researchers to monitor the health of rural bridges in Nebraska was chosen as a winner of the NATO Innovation Challenge and could be applied to transportation systems throughout Europe.  Full Story