April 13, 2022 - Ruiguo Yang is examining how cell-cell junctions — protein structures that enable cells to attach to neighboring cells — respond to the wide range of strains they're subjected to every day, such as cardiac pulses, stretching of the skin and peristalsis
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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