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Nirupam Aich, McNeel Associate Professor of civil and environmental engineering, won the 2024 Faculty Research and Creative Activity Slam. (Photo by Nick Kumpula/Research and Innovation) Aich wins 2024 Faculty Research and Creative Activity Slam
Eric Markvicka, Krohn Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, is leading a project aimed at developing a wearable monitoring device that contains multiple types of sensors, enabling faster and more accurate detection of exacerbations of COPD and chronic conditions like asthma, heart disease and other inflammatory disorders. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing) New device would help those with chronic conditions get timely treatment
Nirupam Aich, Richard L. McNeel Associate Professor in civil and environmental engineering. Aich adds expertise to project developing PFAS detection & remediation process
Data collected in a study of the 2020 election is helping Nebraska Engineering's Jennifer Lather and the Engineering for Democracy Institute make recommendations to put more flexibility in voting processes. (University Communication and Marketing) Lather, research team make recommendations to help lessen voters' waiting times
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Michael Sealy, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, holds a basic example of the medical implants he's designing via the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's 3D printers. Sealy is using the printers to build magnesium-based screws, pins and other implants that can slowly dissolve in the body, which would negate the need for follow-up surgeries to remove such implants.
October 25, 2018 - Michael Sealy, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, is using cutting-edge 3D printers to build implants that can slowly dissolve in the body, which would negate the need for follow-up surgeries to remove such implants.  Full Story

Jian Wang, professor of mechanical and materials engineering.
September 26, 2018 - Jian Wang, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, recently received a three-year, $799,270 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.  Full Story

Jeffrey Shield, department chair and Robert W. Brightfelt professor of mechanical and materials engineering.
September 26, 2018 - Nebraska's MRSEC and Tuskegee University are partners in an NSF diversity-focused materials research grant that will also increase academic opportunities to underrepresented groups of students.  Full Story

Including Nebraska Engineering faculty Daniel Linzell and Chungwook Sim, researchers working on the SMARTI project discuss the management and monitoring of rural bridge health on an edition of NET Nebraska's "Consider This."
September 24, 2018 - On NET's "Consider This," Nebraska civil engineering faculty Daniel Linzell and Chungwook Sim are part of the panel discussing a new initiative that focuses on the management and monitoring of rural bridge health.  Full Story

Michael Sealy, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, and his team are using the Optomec LENS 3D hybrid printer in the NEAT Labs to develop a process for manufacturing customized, dissolvable magnesium surgical implants.
September 12, 2018 - Using a controlled-atmosphere system in a 3D hybrid printer, Michael Sealy and his team of Nebraska engineers are developing a process for manufacturing customized, dissolvable metal implants that can reduce risks and costs for surgical patients.  Full Story

Growing human embryonic stem cells in hydrogel tubes protects them from moving media and promotes health and higher yields.
September 10, 2018 - Researchers know that growing stem cells takes a long time and creates expensive treatments. Nebraska Engineering's Yuguo Lei advises providing a cell culture setting that mimics the natural stem-cell niche as closely as possible to minimize cell stress.  Full Story

Aaron Ediger, graduate student in electrical and computer engineering.
September 10, 2018 - Aaron Ediger, a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering, has received the Graduate Directed Energy Scholarship in High Energy Laser and High Power Microwave Technologies from the Directed Energy Professional Society (DEPS).  Full Story

Jian Wang, associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering.
September 09, 2018 - Jian Wang, associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering, will receive the Materials Today 2018 Rising Star Award in the Materials Genome division. The award will be presented at Rice University in Houston, Texas, Sept. 27-28  Full Story

A $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation will enable UNO and UNL professors to collaborate on producing a big data pipeline for rural bridges.
September 05, 2018 - A new regional innovation center, funded by a $1 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant will be geared toward producing a big data pipeline for rural bridge health management and will include UNL civil engineering faculty.  Full Story

Mechanical and materials engineering assistant professors Bai Cui (left) and Prahalada Rao.
August 24, 2018 - Mechanical and materials engineering assistant professors Bai Cui and Prahalada Rao will collaborate with Tethon 3D to design and produce a ceramic/metal 3-D printer after receiving a grant from the Nebraska Department of Economic Development.  Full Story

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