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Joe Luck, associate professor of biological systems engineering, develops ways to make application systems more efficient in reducing spray drift.
August 12, 2020 - Joe Luck, associate professor of biological systems engineering, develops ways to make application systems more efficient in reducing spray drift. Luck discusses this work as part of IANR's Strategic Discussions for Nebraska.  Full Story

Jacob Mohler, a senior in civil and environmental engineering, is a summer intern with Kiewit and a pitcher on the University of Nebraska Omaha baseball team.
August 11, 2020 - With a fastball that can reach 96 mph, Jacob Mohler could have pursued a career in professional baseball this summer.  Full Story

The Nebraska Engineering HVAC System Selection team consisted of students (top row, from left) Ashley Everitt, John Kramer, Jessica Lee and Mitchael Sieh; faculty advisor David Yuill (lower left) and industry mentor Joe Hazel.
August 07, 2020 - A team of Nebraska architectural engineering students took first place in the HVAC System Selection category at the 2020 ASHRAE Student Design Competition, which drew many teams from across the U.S. and the world.  Full Story

Marilyn Wolf, the Elmer E. Koch Professor of Engineering and Chair of Computer Science and Engineering.
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In March 2019, flooding along the Loup River between Genoa and Monroe wiped out roads and left some homes surrounded by water.
July 30, 2020 - Pop-up courses, like those studying the recovery from the March 2019 floods and he COVID-19 pandemic, are helping the College of Engineering and students to connect to real-time issues with immediate impact.  Full Story

Atop Andersen Hall, Mehmet Can Vuran, Susan J. Rosowski Professor of computer science and engineering at Nebraska, briefs Sen. Deb Fischer, University of Nebraska President Ted Carter and University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Ronnie Green on wireless network research at the university.
July 29, 2020 - Engineers, researchers and wireless technology experts from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are part of a Lincoln-based team that is a finalist for an NSF program to lower the cost of broadband for rural communities.  Full Story

Forrest Kievit and colleagues have calibrated a nanoparticle whose composition allows it to be clearly visualized by both fluorescence and MRI technologies. This could help in delivering medicines across blood-brain barrier to damaged tissues.
July 27, 2020 - Forrest Kievit and colleagues have calibrated a nanoparticle whose composition allows it to be clearly visualized by both fluorescence and MRI technologies. This could help in delivering medicines across blood-brain barrier to damaged tissues.  Full Story

Grace Panther (left), assistant professor of Engineering Education in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Heidi Diefes-Dux, professor of Engineering Education in Biological Systems Engineering.
July 20, 2020 - The COVID-19 pandemic caused faculty to change their teaching practices immediately with little research available about teaching in a crisis. Faculty in the Engineering Education Research program contucted a study about faculty responses to the crisis.  Full Story

The Nebraska Environmental Trust has awarded 21 grants to University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers, including five totaling $520,900 to Nebraska Engineering projects.
July 10, 2020 - The Nebraska Environmental Trust has awarded 21 grants to University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers, including five totaling $520,900 to Nebraska Engineering projects.  Full Story

An employee at Lincoln's Teresa Street treatment facility pours a sample of outgoing treated water into a bottle held by Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, chair of civil and environmental engineering.
July 07, 2020 - With assistance from the Lincoln Wastewater System, researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have launched projects to use wastewater samples for early detection of the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus.  Full Story