January 31, 2024 - The Midwest Roadside Safety Facility (MwRSF) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has mobilized to answer the safety and military defense questions raised by the burgeoning number of electric vehicles (EV) on the nation’s roadways.
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January 30, 2024 - Invented by Nebraska Engineering professor Shane Farritor and others, a miniaturized surgical robot was launched into space Jan. 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, headed for the International Space Station where its remote capabilities will be tested.
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January 30, 2024 - A small team of students, led by doctoral student Rachael Wagner of Lincoln, was instrumental in prepping a miniaturized surgical robot for its first spaceflight - a mission to the International Space Station where its remote capabilities will be tested.
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January 30, 2024 - A research team led by Nebraska engineers Rajib Saha and Niaz Bahar Chawdhury has built the largest-ever metabolic model of corn to study how temperature stress affects the plant and how a certain fungus can help alleviate the problem.
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November 30, 2023 - The Center for Electro-Optics and Functionalized Surfaces is now home to a first-of-its-kind laser in the United States to be used for a specialized method of surface modification that could improve manufacturing methods.
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November 20, 2023 - Luke Farritor, a Nebraska Engineering senior majoring in computer science, is getting international attention and little sleep in his quest to develop AI-based programs that will read and decipher fragile ancient scrolls.
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November 17, 2023 - College of Engineering faculty Brittany Duncan and Marc Maguire were recognized with Innovator Awards during the 2023 NUtech Ventures Innovator Celebration on Nov. 6.
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November 16, 2023 - With the support of an NSF grant, Dung Hoang Tran will continues his work to develop a verification tool that will make autonomous vehicles and other robotics machinery both safer and smarter.
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November 14, 2023 - In her Nebraska Lecture, presented Nov. 9, Shannon Bartelt-Hunt showed how the birth of modern epidemiology in 1854 inspired her during the COVID-19 pandemic to develop wastewater-based tracking that helped document the spread of diseases.
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November 14, 2023 - M.R. (Mohammad) Hasan, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, and former Nebraska Engineering researcher Bilal Khan found that integrating AI-based interventions can help undergraduate students succeed in STEM courses.
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