April 27, 2021 - Ben Johnson and Zane Zents, seniors in electrical and computer engineering, were awarded the 2021 "Eat it!" Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for the Grain Weevil, a grain bin safety and management robot that keeps farmers safe and grain stored efficiently.
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April 23, 2021 - A team of Nebraska middle and high school students, mentored by Nebraska undergraduate engineering students, will have their satellite placed into Earth orbit as part of a NASA launch in the next several years. It is the first ever from a Nebraska team.
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April 14, 2021 - A new $452,783 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture will fund research that will help Santosh Pitla's team develop a new approach for refilling Unmanned Ground Vehicle seed tanks using aerial robots.
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April 12, 2021 - Shudipto Dishari, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, is the first College of Engineering faculty member to be selected for the prestigious 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award.
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April 07, 2021 - The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering has launched the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA), the first engineering research visioning organization of its kind. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is a founding partner.
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March 29, 2021 - Laurence Rilett, professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Nebraska Transportation Center and Mid-America Transportation Center, was chosen as one of three University of Nebraska faculty to receive President's Excellence Awards.
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March 29, 2021 - Nicole Iverson, assistant professor of biological systems engineering, is developing nanoscopic sensors aimed at detecting earlier hints of disease at the cellular level. Learn more about Iverson's work in this video from the "She's A Scientist" series.
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March 09, 2021 - With key research from Rajib Saha, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, a State of Nebraska project shows conventional vehicles can use higher ethanol blend E-30 with no negative impact on vehicle performance after a year's use.
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March 08, 2021 - A team of researchers from three University of Nebraska institutions finished among the Top 10 teams a global competition to develop an artificial intelligence-driven model to advise policymakers on how it is best to handle the COVID-19 pandemic.
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March 08, 2021 - Looking many millennia into the future, a research team headed by Nebraska engineering faculty is developing a new barrier material that would make the deep geologic disposal and storage of spent nuclear fuel a much safer proposition.
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