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Ethan Bowles, a senior in biological systems engineering, makes an adjustment to the steering wheel in an electric car during the GoBabyGo! build on April 2. Bowles was among seven Huskers to assist with the project. This was his third time volunteering for the event. (Kent Sievers / UNMC)
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.  Full Story

Riley Ruskamp, master's students civil and environmental engineering and graduate research assistant at Midwest Roadside Safety Facility.
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.  Full Story

Sam Murray, a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering, is teaching an embedded systems class using integrated circuit solutions created by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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.  Full Story

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. (KETV)
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.  Full Story

Felicity Sierra, freshman mechanical engineering major, listens to a career panel in the Kiewit Scholars Program. (Craig Chandler / University Communication)
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.  Full Story

Rajib Saha, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and graduate student Niaz Bahar Chowdhury have created a genome-scale metabolic model for the corn root to study its nitrogen-use efficiency under nitrogen stress conditions. (University Communication photo)
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.  Full Story

School of Computing Senior Design students (from left) Cole Vaske, Will Swiston and Cody Binder work on their collaborative project with the Nebraska Water Center.
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Angela Pannier, professor and Swarts Family Chair of Biological Systems Engineering.
March 09, 2022 - The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the election of Angela Pannier, Swarts Family Chair of Biological Systems Engineering and Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, to its College of Fellows.  Full Story

With faculty moving into the 50-plus new laboratories and students now using collaborative work and study spaces, the Engineering Research Center (ERC) is positioned to help transform research being conducted in the College of Engineering.
March 03, 2022 - With faculty moving into the 50-plus new laboratories and students now using collaborative work and study spaces, the Engineering Research Center (ERC) is positioned to help transform research being conducted in the College of Engineering.  Full Story

Eric Markvicka, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering.
March 03, 2022 - Erick Markvicka, who grew up helping on his grandparents' farm and was inspired by fellow Ravenna native and Nebraska Engineering professor Shane Farritor, is working to create a future where humans and technology work together more intimately.  Full Story