February 06, 2015 - Shane Farritor, professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and his team have received a $2.8 million extension of their U.S. Army grant to fund research into developing devices for robotic telesurgery.
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January 30, 2015 - Jinsong Huang, associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering, and colleagues have discovered that the potential energy efficiency in a promising solar cell material is more promising than previously demonstrated.
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January 28, 2015 - With a new $1.5 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy, UNL electrical engineers are developing a health monitoring system that applies the same principle toward diagnosing and prognosticating damage in wind turbines.
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January 23, 2015 - Two graduate students from the College of Engineering - Yuchuan Shao and Phillipp Kuehne - were among those honored on Jan. 15 at the Graduate Awards Reception at the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center.
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January 23, 2015 - A team of UNL researchers led by Jinsong Huang, associate professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, had a paper published in the December 2014 edition of the prestigious journal Nature Materials.
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January 21, 2015 - Using a hot-water drill and an underwater robotic vehicle designed, built and operated by a team of UNL engineers, scientists have made discoveries about Antarctica's geology and biology.
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January 20, 2015 - Engineering associate dean David Jones (left) and MME professor Shane Farritor are part of a UNL team that will participate in a two-year federal program to boost innovation and entrepreneurship in undergraduate engineering education.
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January 15, 2015 - Three faculty from The Durham School are part of a multidisciplinary UNL team that has secured nearly $1 million from the EPA for a four-year study of the effect of indoor environmental factors on students from kindergarten through 12th grade.
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January 12, 2015 - The performance of electronic memory devices is known to degrade at high temperatures, but Nebraska Engineering researchers have proposed a new memory that requires temperatures in excess of 620 degrees Fahrenheit to operate.
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December 18, 2014 - Led by MME associate professor Jinsong Huang, UNL engineers have doubled the efficiency of a prominent solar cell technology by finding the origins of a phenomenon known to hinder cell performance, stability and evaluation.
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