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Randy Peters, associate professor of practice in civil engineering, is teaching a senior design capstone course after retiring as director/state engineer of the Nebraska Department of Roads.
March 09, 2016 - After 38 years at the Nebraska Department of Roads, the last three as director, Randy Peters said it was "a natural fit" for him to return to UNL to teach the civil engineering senior design capstone course.  Full Story

Curtis Tomasevicz, lecturer in electrical and computer engineering, shows a squat bar with sensors that are used to measure athletic performance in the Nebraska Athletic Performance Laboratory in Memorial Stadium. Tomasevicz, also a graduate student in biological systems engineering, is working at NAPL while doing doctoral research into how athletes create power while jumping vertically.
March 09, 2016 - From playing football for the Huskers and pushing a bobsled at the Olympics, Curtis Tomasevicz learned much about generating force on a horizontal plane. Now doing his doctoral research, Tomasevicz is taking off in a new direction.  Full Story

UNL's Architectural Engineering Awards Banquet was March 3 in Omaha.
March 08, 2016 - A year of unparalleled successes was reason to celebrate as Nebraska Engineering students, alumni and faculty were honored at the annual Architectural Engineering Awards Banquet on Thursday, March 3 in Omaha.  Full Story

Producers analyze agricultural data during a Nebraska Extension Precision Ag Data Management Workshop. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is a founding member of the Agricultural Data Coalition
March 07, 2016 - The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has joined a new initiative aimed at helping farmers better control, manage and maximize the value of the data they collect every day in their fields.  Full Story

Terri Norton, associate professor of construction engineering in The Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction.
March 03, 2016 - Terri Norton, associate professor of construction engineering in The Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grant to further her research into disaster debris management.  Full Story

Rachel Levine, vice president of UNL's AWWA/WEF student chapter and a graduate student in civil engineering, shows middle school students an experiment during the Global Day of the Engineer, Feb. 24 at the Nebraska Union.
March 02, 2016 - The UNL student chapter of AWWA/WEF made an impact on the next generation of engineers by showing middle-school students how to solve environmental problems during the Feb. 24 Global Day of the Engineer.  Full Story

Virtual Incision Corp. - a company co-founded by Shane Farritor (above), professor of mechanical and materials engineering, and Dmitry Oleynikov, a UNMC professor of surgery - announced the successful first in-human use of its miniaturized robotically assisted surgical device.
March 02, 2016 - Virtual Incision Corp., a company co-founded Shane Farritor, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, announced a first successful in-human use of its robotic surgical device.  Full Story

Pam Dingman, a civil engineering graduate and the Lancaster County Engineer, is one of three stories about women engineers spotlighted in a CNN Money article.
February 26, 2016 - Pam Dingman, a civil engineering alum and Lancaster County Engineer, is featured in a CNN Money article on women engineers who are entrepreneurs and inspiration to the next generation of women engineers.  Full Story

Liyan Qu, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, recently earned a five-year, $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program Award from the National Science Foundation to develop a next-generation power grid transformer. (Craig Chandler / University Communications)
February 26, 2016 - Liyan Qu, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, recently earned a five-year, $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program Award from the National Science Foundation to develop a next-generation power grid transformer.  Full Story

Daryl Dodoo, a junior computer engineering major, explains how to work the controls of a robot to 9-year-old Mia Vogel of Lincoln during the 2015 Nebraska Robotics Expo.
February 17, 2016 - Nearly 1,000 K-12 students, team leaders and math and science teachers form Nebraska will pack the Strategic Air & Space Museum in Ashland on Saturday, February 20 for the annual Nebraska Robotics Expo.  Full Story