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Senior biological systems engineering students prepare their entry before competing in the Rapid Design Challenge on Sept. 11 at Splinter Labs.
September 11, 2015 - <span>The 53 biological systems engineering students in the senior design course got an early of what to expect from their senior design projects when they competed on Sept. 11 in the Rapid Design Challenge at Splinter Labs.</span>  Full Story

The UNL Fountain Wars team prepares its :"Space Jam"-themed entry for the competition at the ASABE conference in New Orleans.
September 08, 2015 - After top-two finishes at the last two national ASABE student design competitions, UNL's Fountain Wars team looks to continue the momentum as it builds for the future.  Full Story

Meagan Kurmel, an architectural engineering alumnus, was recently crowned Miss Czech-Slovak U.S. at the Wilber Czech Festival.
September 08, 2015 - After being recently crowned Miss Czech-Slovak U.S., architectural engineering graduate Meagan Kurmel will spend part of the next year balancing her engineering career with promoting her heritage.  Full Story

Jinsong Huang, a Susan J. Rosowski associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering.
September 02, 2015 - <span>UNL engineers found that surface defects on crystals used in photodetectors can be used to more precisely tailor the location and width of wavelength bands by adjusting the chemical composition of the crystals.</span>  Full Story

David Yuill, associate professor of architectural engineering.
August 28, 2015 - With first-place finishes in two categories and a third-place finish in another, UNL became the first school to gain top-three finishes in three categories of the annual ASHRAE student design competitions.  Full Story

Travis Deyle, a 2005 computer and electronics engineering graduate, was chosen by MIT Technology Review to receive its "35 Innovators Under 35" award.
August 26, 2015 - Travis Deyle, a senior hardware engineer at Google(X) Life Sciences and a 2005 UNL computer engineering graduate, was chosen by the MIT Technology Review as one of the "35 Innovators Under 35" award winners.  Full Story

Khalid Sayood,
August 26, 2015 - Khalid Sayood, Henson Professor of Engineering in electrical and computer engineering, is a partner in a start-up bioinformatics company that has signed on to be the latest partner at Nebraska Innovation Campus.  Full Story

Steven Stauffer, graduate student in civil engineering
August 24, 2015 - Steven Stauffer, a graduate student in civil engineering, has been awarded a $3,000 American Institute of Steel Construction Education Foundation scholarship, one of 20 given to students in the U.S.  Full Story

BRIDGE-ing Big Data Workshop
August 24, 2015 - The college is hosting the<a href="node/2899"> BRIDGE-ing Big Data Workshop</a> Oct. 8-9, 2015, focusing on creating and maintaining safer bridges for the nation's infrastructure. The workshop will be held at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraska.  Full Story

Members of the Quarter-Scale Tractor Team use the latest Computer Aided Design technology to design their award winning tractors.
August 14, 2015 - The University of Nebraska State Museum’s August Sunday with a Scientist program for children and families will showcase quarter-scale tractors and the science behind them.  Full Story