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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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Jae Sung Park meets with students on his research team.
August 23, 2018 - Jae Sung Park, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, has earned a $177,433 fellowship opportunity with the National Science Foundation to collaborate on a project studying turbulence in fluid mechanics.  Full Story

Timothy Wei is studying the swimming efficiency of marine life. The research has several applications including in athletics and a potential use in the military.
August 23, 2018 - Timothy Wei, Richard L. McNeel professor of mechanical and materials engineering, is studying the swimming efficiency of marine life. The research has several applications including in athletics and a potential use in the military.  Full Story

Shane Farritor, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, is featured in the Faculty 101 podcast.
August 10, 2018 - Shane Farritor, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, is featured in the latest Faculty 101 podcast. Farritor discusses designing robots that can perform surgery and shares advice on how to succeed in college and how to raise creative kids.  Full Story

Biological Systems Engineering faculty (clockwise from top right) Dean Eisenhauer, Derek Heeren and Yufung Ge will be honored with awards at Aug. 1 at the ASABE International Meeting in Detroit, Michigan.
July 27, 2018 - Three faculty from Biological Systems Engineering -- Dean Eisenhauer, Yufung Ge and Derek Heeren -- will be recognized as major award recipients Aug. 1 at the annual American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers awards luncheon.  Full Story

A recent Nuclear Regulatory Commission grant will bolster the research of Bai Cui (left), assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, into developing new materials to be used in construction of the next generation of nuclear reactors. Jeffrey Shield (center), chair and professor of mechanical and materials engineering, and Michael Nastasi (right), professor of mechanical and materials engineering, collaborated on the grant.
July 27, 2018 - A recent grant from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will bolster engineering research into nuclear energy and could provide multiple benefits to the College of Engineering, its future students and the State of Nebraska.  Full Story

Blurred water droplets roll off of a section of wire used to transmit electricity. Dennis Alexander's lab is pursuing a project that will modify power line wires so that they repel precipitation. The work shows promise in reducing ice formation on power lines.
July 27, 2018 - Shark skin offers a near-perfect design for gliding effortlessly through water. A Nebraska Engineering research team led by Dennis Alexander is working to give metal the same unique properties, allowing it to be used for defense and industrial purposes.  Full Story

Husker researchers have engineered the bacterial species Thermotoga maritima to produce more hydrogen than any bacterium before it. (University Communication)
July 26, 2018 - Nebraska researchers, including chemical and biomolecular engineer Yasar Demirel, have broken through a theoretical limit on hydrogen that bacteria could produce by presenting those bacteria with a simple choice — adapt or die.  Full Story

Ali Tamayol (left), assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering; and Prahalada Rao, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering.
July 25, 2018 -  Using 3-D printing to generate tissue that could close wounds like a shark bite may be science fiction today, but Nebraska mechanical and materials engineering researchers are striving to make this scenario a reality.  Full Story

Timothy Wei, Richard L. McNeel Professor of mechanical and materials engineering.
July 24, 2018 - The fastest humans can swim about one-tenth as fast as the fastest sharks. What separates us from the creatures of the sea? Could we ever close the gap? Nebraska Engineering's Timothy Wei discusses his reasearch.  Full Story

A cross section of the coextruded Ethylene Vinyl-alcohol (EVOH) membrane between two traditional polyethylene layers.
June 29, 2018 - Dr. Jongwan Eun, assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Dr. Yunwoo Nam, associate professor of Community and Regional Planning, are working to reduce gas emissions of working landfills.  Full Story

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