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Xu Li (front left), Bing Wang (front right), Shannon Bartelt-Hunt (back left) and Yusong Li (back right) collect and examine water samples from the Elkhorn River near Waterloo, Nebraska, as part of the EPA research project. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing) Nebraska environmental engineers targeting antimicrobial resistance in environment
Qiang Liu, assistant professor in the School of Computing. Liu ‘slicing’ wireless networks to develop ways to improve efficiency
Six Nebraska Engineering faculty - (clockwise from top left) Nirupam Aich, Seunghee Kim, Xu Li, Massimiliano Pierobon, Jae Sung Park, and Eric Markvicka - were awarded named professorships in July 2024. Six Nebraska Engineering faculty awarded named professorships
Adam Erickson from Abdelghani Laraoui’s lab in the Engineering Research Center aligns the nitrogen vacancy scanning probe microscope used for the study. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing) Spintronics breakthrough opens door to next-gen electronics
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Tyler Wortman, Nebraska mechanical engineering alumnus, is designing and building pharmacy fulfillment centers for Amazon.
April 22, 2024 - Tyler Wortman, former Nebraska football player, earned two mechanical engineering degrees at UNL. Now, he's building and designing pharmacy fulfillment centers for Amazon.  Full Story

(top row, from left) Stuart Bernstein, Shubhendu Bhardwaj, Chris Bourke, Bai Chi, Derek Heeren; (center row) Michael Hempel, Kelly Kopocis, Keegan Moore, Ryan Pedrigi; (bottom row) Santosh Pitla, Eva Schubert, Cody Stolle, Rebecca Wachs, Christine Wittich
April 16, 2024 - Fourteen faculty from the College of Engineering are among the 100 faculty to whom the University of Nebraska–Lincoln will award promotion and/or tenure in 2024.  Full Story

Students who led the winning projects at the 2024 Engineering Pitch Competition are (from left) Patrick McManigal, Brooke Bode and Alyssa Grube.
April 08, 2024 - Nebraska Engineering students Patrick McManigal, Brooke Bode and Alyssa Grube earned the top three places April 2 at the 2024 Engineering Pitch Competition, held at the Willa Cather Dining Complex.  Full Story

Using new mixes of metals and state-of-the-art 3D printing in Nebraska's NEAT Labs, Joseph Turner's team developed roller bearings for railcars that tested to be just as robust as those produced with conventional techniques. This, Turner said, could open a pathway to new ways to making these bearings. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
March 29, 2024 - When Nebraska Engineering researchers began cooking up new recipes for manufacturing railcar bearing components, they found new powders and production techniques offer robust alternatives that could change future production techniques.  Full Story

Chun-Hsing Ho, associate professor in the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction.
March 26, 2024 - Chun-Hsing (Jun) Ho, associate professor in the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction, has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for the 2024-25 academic year.  Full Story

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying an experimental satellite designed by the Big Red Satellite team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln hurtles toward outer space only seconds after launching from Florida on March 21, 2024. (Screen capture from NASA livestream / YouTube)
March 25, 2024 - A NASA SpaceX rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station launched March 21. Among its payload is an experimental satellite designed and built by a team led by Nebraska Engineering students.  Full Story

A rendering of a stretchable ultrasound device designed by Husker engineers. (Adapted from a figure in Advanced Functional Materials)
March 22, 2024 - A team of Nebraska engineers developed liquid metal droplets with special stretching properties that can be integrated into a wearable ultrasound device prototype.  Full Story

A camera system developed by Zhigang Shen is able to efficiently identify internal defects in pipelines that shuttle gases nationwide.
March 13, 2024 - A camera system developed by Nebraska’s Zhigang Shen is able to efficiently identify internal defects in pipelines that shuttle gases nationwide.  Full Story

Three Nebraska Engineering faculty have been appointed as NSRI fellows. (University Communication and Marketing)
February 29, 2024 - Three College of Engineering faculty are among the 14 from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln who have been appointed as National Strategic Research Initiative (NSRI) fellows.  Full Story

Research teams in the lab of Abdelghani Laraoui, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, are using a quantum sensing technique his lab developed that could lead to big breakthroughs in data transport technologies and in treating diseases. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
February 28, 2024 - Research teams in the lab of Abdelghani Laraoui are using a quantum sensing technique his lab developed that could lead to big breakthroughs in data transport technologies and in treating diseases.  Full Story

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