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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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Yuguo Lei
November 16, 2017 - The Emerging Innovator of the Year award went to Yuguo Lei, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, for invention of novel devices for cell manufacturing that can be used for personalized medicine.  Full Story

Thirty-four College of Engineering faculty were honored at the Research Celebration.
November 14, 2017 - The College of Engineering recognized 34 faculty members for their "highly impactful" research at the College’s Research Celebration reception on Nov. 9 at the Van Brunt Visitors Center. The reception was part of the university's Research Week activities.  Full Story

Ali Tamayol, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering
November 13, 2017 - Nebraska engineer Ali Tamayol and his team have developed a flexible, biodegradable membrane made from a polymer containing nanoparticles of zinc oxide that could help combat gum disease.  Full Story

Supercomputers stand at the ready in Nebraska's Schorr Center, which is the home to the Holland Computing Center. (Craig Chandler / University Communication)
November 10, 2017 - The expertise and resources at Nebraska’s Holland Computing Center helped researchers around the world study the collision of two neutron stars.  Full Story

Inside this capsule/robot, a camera captures images of the colon (Photo from Office of Research and Economic Development)
November 08, 2017 - A team that includes Nebraska mechanical engineering researchers -- Benjamin Terry, Carl Nelson and Hossein Deghani -- have developed a "soft" robot that could make colonoscopy procedures less invasive, less uncomfortable and less expensive.  Full Story

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

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

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