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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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Dung Hoang Tran is developing a verification tool that will make autonomous vehicles safer and smarter. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
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.  Full Story

Sherri Jones, interim vice chancellor of research and economic development, moderates a Q&A session with Nebraska Lecturer Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, Donald R. Voelte Jr. and Nancy A. Keegan Chair of Engineering.
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.  Full Story

Research by M.R. (Mohammad) Hasan, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, finds that machine learning can assist students in STEM courses.
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.  Full Story

Yufeng Ge (left) and Santosh Pitla inspect the Flexible Robot, or Flex-Ro, which is outfitted with sensors that collect data and help the vehicle avoid obstacles. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
November 06, 2023 - As the world looks toward a future in space, Santosh Pitla, Yufung Ge and David Jones are on a quest to establish at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln the first center for space agriculture.  Full Story

A new technique used by Nebraska engineering researchers Sedighe Keynia, who received a doctorate in mechanical engineering in May 2023, and Joseph Turner allows researchers to better understand how plant cells respond to environmental changes to control the flow of gases and liquids.
November 03, 2023 - A new technique employed in a Nebraska Engineering laboratory has allowed a team of researchers from two universities to gain a greater understanding how plant cells respond to environmental changes to control the flow of gases and liquids.  Full Story

Crews remove concrete and debris from the demolition site of Cather and Pound Halls in February 2018. Nebraska researchers are working to improve recycled concrete for reuse in construction. (University Communication and Marketing)
October 27, 2023 - Nebraska Engineering researcher Seunghee Kim is one of the leaders of a team studying the economic and practical feasibility of using recycled concrete as a building material and carbon sequestration source.  Full Story

Shuai Nie (left), associate professor in the School of Computing, and Yijie Xiong, assistant professor of biological systems engineering and animal science.
October 23, 2023 - An all-women team including Nebraska Engineering researchers Shuai Nie and Yijie Xiong is teaming with Purdue University researchers to design a hybrid broadband communication system for rural communities in Nebraska, bridging the "digital divide."  Full Story

Shudipto Dishari helps Rafael López (left) and Sreyan Saha (right) as they play with cars powered by green energy using biomaterials. Dishari, the Ross McCollum associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, recently began work on a three-year, $489,134 grant from the National Science Foundation that could revolutionize the way devices produce, transport and store electricity. (Craig Chandler / University Communication)
October 20, 2023 - An NSF grant is supporting Shudipto Dishari's research to create polymers using cells of recycled Christmas trees and corn plants to help make electrochemical devices greener and more efficient.  Full Story

A team of researchers, including Nebraska engineers Ruiguo Yang and Grayson Minnick, have crafted smaller lenses, some narrower than a human hair, whose size and optical properties can be modified in seconds when subjected to certain stimuli.
October 20, 2023 - A team of researchers, including Nebraska engineers Ruiguo Yang and Grayson Minnick, have crafted smaller lenses, some narrower than a human hair, whose size and optical properties can be modified in seconds when subjected to certain stimuli.  Full Story

Abdelghani Laraoui (right), assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, and Ben Hammons, a first-year student in electrical and computer engineering, adjust a laser in Laraoui's Quantum Sensing & Defect Discovery and Spectroscopy Lab. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
October 19, 2023 - By looking to create quieter environments, a team that includes Nebraska Engineering researcher Abdelghani Laraoui hopes to take a bit of the “noise” out of quantum computing and help make the emerging technology more efficient, accessible and feasible.  Full Story

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