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The team working on this DOE project includes: Sulaiman Mohaidat, Ph.D. student in the Durham School, Fadi Alsaleem, assistant professor in The Durham School, Jinying Zhu, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, Bibo Zhong, Ph.D. student in civil and environmental engineering, and Clayton Malone, Ph.D. student in civil and environmental engineering.
April 11, 2022 - Nebraska Engineering researchers Jinying Zhu and Fadi Alsaleem have received a three-year, $800,000 award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a dual-sensing, health-monitoring system for a spent nuclear fuel canister.  Full Story

Prize winners at the March 23 Engineering Pitch Competition were: First place – Auto Planter, Ian Tempelmeyer (grad student in biological systems engineering); second place – Transverse Direct Drive, Matthew Penne (grad student in electrical and computer engineering); third place – UNL Maker Group, Isaac Regier (senior in mechanical and materials engineering) and Brendan Colford (senior in architecture).
April 08, 2022 - Ian Tempelmeyer, a graduate student in biological systems engineering, won first place in the Engineering Pitch Competition on March 23 for a pitch on a robotic system with a planter attachment to aid corn farmers.  Full Story

Ethan Bowles, a senior in biological systems engineering, makes an adjustment to the steering wheel in an electric car during the GoBabyGo! build on April 2. Bowles was among seven Huskers to assist with the project. This was his third time volunteering for the event. (Kent Sievers / UNMC)
April 06, 2022 - Nebraska Engineering students joined with future health professionals in the GoBabyGo! event on April 2 at UNMC. The students customized electric cars to help meet the specific needs of young children with mobility challenges.  Full Story

Riley Ruskamp, master's students civil and environmental engineering and graduate research assistant at Midwest Roadside Safety Facility.
March 25, 2022 - Riley Ruskamp, a graduate student in civil and environmental engineering and research assistant at Midwest Roadside Safety Facility, has received a Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Transportation.  Full Story

Sam Murray, a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering, is teaching an embedded systems class using integrated circuit solutions created by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
March 25, 2022 - Sam Murray, a doctoral student in electrical engineering, developed Electrical and Computer Engineering's embedded systems class (ECEN 398) and is teaching it this semester. Students in the class are using integrated circuit solutions developed in ECE.  Full Story

Lasers in the Center for Electro-Optics and Functionalized Surfaces are creating surfaces that can help keep power lines from freezing and whipping in the wind. (KETV)
March 25, 2022 - Nebraska Engineering faculty and students working with femtosecond lasers in the Center for Electro-Optics and Functionalized Surfaces are creating surfaces that can help keep power lines from freezing and whipping in the wind.  Full Story

Felicity Sierra, freshman mechanical engineering major, listens to a career panel in the Kiewit Scholars Program. (Craig Chandler / University Communication)
March 25, 2022 - Felicity Sierra, a freshman from Chicago, is charting her own path in engineering as one of 10 students chosen to the inaugural cohort of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering's Kiewit Scholars Program.  Full Story

Rajib Saha, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and graduate student Niaz Bahar Chowdhury have created a genome-scale metabolic model for the corn root to study its nitrogen-use efficiency under nitrogen stress conditions. (University Communication photo)
March 15, 2022 - Rajib Saha and Niaz Bahar Chowdhury are studying how corn roots adapt to insufficient nitrogen, with an eye toward making genetic tweaks that might increase, or at least maintain, plant growth and yields without excessive application of fertilizer.  Full Story

School of Computing Senior Design students (from left) Cole Vaske, Will Swiston and Cody Binder work on their collaborative project with the Nebraska Water Center.
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Angela Pannier, professor and Swarts Family Chair of Biological Systems Engineering.
March 09, 2022 - The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the election of Angela Pannier, Swarts Family Chair of Biological Systems Engineering and Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, to its College of Fellows.  Full Story