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Brandon Schurman, a senior in mechanical and materials engineering, listens as site manager Jim Heyen (right) talks about the Grit Removal Unit building during a tour the Hastings Utilities Pollution Control Facility on Nov. 3. (Hastings Tribune photo)
November 08, 2017 - A team of College of Engineering students and faculty from the Nebraska Industrial Assessment Center (NIAC) are gaining valuable experience while helping a utility and a business in Hastings become more efficient.  Full Story

Three Biological Systems Engineering faculty - (clockwise from top left) Yufeng Ge, Joe Luck and Christopher Neale - each received one of 17 USDA agricultural technology grants.
November 02, 2017 - Three Biological Systems Engineering faculty - Christopher Neale, Yufeng Ge, and Joe Luck - each received one of 17 USDA agricultural technology grants.  Full Story

Norman Newhouse
November 01, 2017 - Engineering alumnus Norman Newhouse is one of nine alumni featured for Masters Week Nov. 1-3, sponsored by the Nebraska Alumni Association, Nebraska Student Alumni Association and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor's Office.  Full Story

Lindsey Jarema, president of the UNL chapter of oSTEM (Photo by Sabrina Sommer / The Daily Nebraskan)
October 27, 2017 - Lindsey Jarema, a student in chemical and biomolecular engineering, was a driving force in organizing the UNL chapter of oSTEM to help empower LGBTQ students to succeed in academic and professional STEM careers.  Full Story

Sarah Drummey, fourth-year architectural engineering student
October 26, 2017 - Sarah Drummey, a fourth-year architectural engineering student in The Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction, has been awarded the $10,000 Willis H. Carrier Scholarship from ASHRAE.  Full Story

David Gee (left) and Dr. Chungwook Sim
October 25, 2017 - The Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) has awarded David Gee, a Civil Engineering graduate student working with Dr. Chungwook Sim, the Daniel P. Jenny Research Fellowship for 2017-2018.  Full Story

The Unmanned Aircraft Research team includes Biological Systems Engineering faculty (from left) – Joe Luck, associate professor; Christopher Neale, Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute director of research; Wayne Woldt, associate professor; George Meyer, professor; Derek Heeren, assistant professor; and Yufeng Ge, assistant professor.
October 24, 2017 - A $500,000 research project involving Biological Systems Engineering faculty and funded by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute will deploy drones in search of improved crop irrigation efficiency.  Full Story

Nebraska Engineering student Ethan Krings and alumni Chris Volle, Matthew Mahlin and Justin Green were part of the team that developed a boom that would be used in space to support a flexible solar panel.
October 17, 2017 - A space tool developed by Nebraska undergraduate engineering students is on its way to NASA's Langley Research Center for its first structural test before being launched on a suborbital rocket in spring 2018.  Full Story

Curt Tomasevicz, Ph.D. student in biological systems engineering
October 11, 2017 - With degrees in electrical engineering and working toward a doctorate in biological systems engineering, Curt Tomasevicz has clout as a teacher, but his years on the US national bobsled team and Olympic medals give him extra clout with students.  Full Story

Richard Wood (left), assistant professor of civil engineering; and Yijun Liao (right), Ph.D. student in civil engineering, were joined by Kara Peterman of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in assessing damage at the Aransas County Airport in Rockport, Texas.
October 09, 2017 - Richard Wood, assistant professor of civil engineering, and two Ph.D. students in civil engineering, are part of a National Science Foundation effort to assess the damage caused in Texas by Hurricane Harvey.  Full Story