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Crash Test at the MwRSF
February 28, 2019 - From NASCAR to our nation's highways, the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility (MwRSF) at Nebraska is protecting drivers and saving lives every day with our innovative safer roadside barriers.  Full Story

Bonita Sharif, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, is using eye-tracking technology to analyze how software programmers work in order to develop ways to write code better and faster. (Craig Chandler / University Communication)
February 26, 2019 - Using the latest advances in eye-tracking technology, University of Nebraska–Lincoln computer scientist Bonita Sharif is analyzing how software programmers work in order to develop tools that help them write code better and faster.  Full Story

Sarah Drummey (center), a master's student in architectural engineering, was chosen as the 2018 ACEC Scholar of the Year, a scholarship program that gives preference to students who intern at consulting engineering firms.
February 18, 2019 - Architectural engineering graduate student Sarah Drummey and Brad Strittmatter of Olson Associates confirm that an internship can give engineering graduates a leg up in job market.  Full Story

Ross Barron, a Nebraska civil engineering alumnus and master of engineering management student.
February 18, 2019 - Ross Barron, a professional engineer with Olsson and Nebraska Engineering alumnus, has been named the 2019 Young Professional of the Year by the American Council of Engineering Companies of Nebraska.  Full Story

NESCO's Dalton Rabe and eSAB's Daniel Johnson
February 14, 2019 - With Engineers Week (E-Week) just around the corner (Feb 17-23), NESCO’s Dalton Rabe and eSAB’s Daniel Johnson discuss the Nebraska Engineering student experience and how the big college has the feel of family.  Full Story

NFL star Ndamukong Suh, a former Husker football player and a Nebraska Engineering construction management alumnus, has helped recent graduates Matt Stier and Brynne Schwabauer with not only a scholarship but also a mentoring relationship.
February 12, 2019 - Alumnus and NFL star Ndamukong Suh is giving back through a Nebraska Engineering scholarship and continues to help a pair of recent graduates in their professional journeys.  Full Story

Biological Systems Engineering faculty (from left) Jenny Keshwani, Jeyam Subbiah and Ashu Guru have developed AgPocalypse, a video game to teach farming.
February 07, 2019 - Biological systems engineering faculty Jeyam Subbiah, Jenny Keshwani and Ashu Guru have developed AgPocalypse 2050, a video game for middle school and high school students to promote learning about agricultural decision-making.  Full Story

Alisa Gilmore
January 31, 2019 - Combining her love of engineering and robotics with a passion for STEM outreach programs for kids, Alisa Gilmore is helping to reach the next generations of engineers.  Full Story

Research done by Ruiguo Yang (back right), Jung Yul Lim (back left), and a team of students, including Jordan Rosenbohm, seeks to understand how individual cells communicate with each other as they respond to environmental changes. (Greg Nathan / University Communication)
January 31, 2019 - A team of Nebraska engineers is hoping its cell-stretching research will lead new understandings of how cells react to mechanical stimuli so that those expanded pathways might someday aid in fighting cancer and healing wounds.  Full Story

Fadi Alsaleem, assistant professor of architectural engineering.
January 25, 2019 - Nebraska engineer Fadi Alsaleem has a patent pending for a micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) technology that will allow a soft material to perform complex computing and respond without the need of a conventional computer system.  Full Story