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At the 2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference, Jena Asgarpoor (left) received the Excellence in Service Award, and Shudipto Dishari received the Outstanding Teaching Award. Nebraska Engineering takes six major awards at ASEE Midwest Section conference
In his lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering, Abdelghani Laraoui works on improving scientific materials and processes for quantum sensing applications. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing) Nebraska-HBCU project to grow opportunities in quantum sensing
Five Grand Challenges grants in 2024 are awarded to projects including Nebraska Engineering faculty. Five Grand Challenges grants awarded to Nebraska Engineering faculty
Kiewit Hall is the College of Engineering's hub for undergraduate engineering education. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing) Eleven new faculty join College of Engineering in 2024
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Cody Stolle, research assistant professor in the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility and in mechanical and materials engineering
September 15, 2023 - In high school, Cody Stolle was inspired to pursue engineering at UNL. Today, his research at the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility is saving lives on U.S. military bases and on the world's roadways.  Full Story

Shudipto Dishari, Ross McCollum associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
September 14, 2023 - Shudipto Dishari and her research team are converting plant wastes into antimicrobial agents that could help prevent pathogenic infections and death while significantly lowering the cost of antimicrobial treatments and being a boon to the bioeconomy.  Full Story

Massimiliano Pierobon, associate professor in the School of Computing.
September 11, 2023 - Massimiliano Pierobon is one of the research leads on a team awarded a $24.5 million contract to develop a first-of-its-kind prophylactic to help protect U.S. troops from the effects of acute radiation syndrome.  Full Story

Aemal Khattak, director of the Mid-America Transportation Center (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
September 07, 2023 - The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Mid-America Transportation Center has won a five-year, $15 million grant to remain the transportation research and workforce development hub for the U.S. Department of Transportation Region 7.  Full Story

Shudipto Dishari, the Ross McCollum Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was recognized by as one of the PMSE 2023 Early Stage Investigator Award recipients at the Fall Meeting in August.
September 05, 2023 - Shudipto Dishari was honored by the American Chemical Society (ACS) and its Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) division as one of the recipients of its 2023 Early Stage Investigator Award.  Full Story

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln team working on the MICRA project includes (from left) Saleh Taghvaeian, biological systems engineering; Daniel Schachtman, agronomy and horticulture; Taro Mieno, agricultural economics; and Seunghee Kim, civil engineering.
September 05, 2023 - Seunghee Kim and Saleh Taghvaeian are on a team that is focusing on water stress in the High Plains that is threatening agriculture and rural communities to find ways to improve soil moisture preservation and help rural areas be more climate resilient.  Full Story

Eight new faculty joined the College of Engineering in the fall semester 2023 - (clockwise from top left) Nirupam Aich, Jeffrey Falkinburg, Bhuvaneswari Gopal, Abia Katimbo, Craig Zuhlke, Seth Polsley, Andre Messner and Neal Lewis.
September 01, 2023 - The College of Engineering has added eight faculty for the 2023-24 academic year, increasing total faculty hires to 75 over the past seven years.  Full Story

Kazi Albab Hussain (left) holds his son while removing a plastic container of water from a microwave. Hussain and Nebraska Engineering colleagues have found that microwaving such containers can release up to billions of nanoscopic particles and millions of microscopic ones. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
August 29, 2023 - Four high-impact research projects from the College of Engineering, including one that aims to make food plastics safer for consumers, have been funded through the second Grand Challenges Catalyst Competition.  Full Story

In August 2023, four College of Engineering faculty - (from left) Justin Bradley, Shudipto Dishari, George Gogos and Rajib Saha - were awarded named professorships.
August 28, 2023 - In August 2023, four College of Engineering faculty - Justin Bradley, Shudipto Dishari, George Gogos and Rajib Saha - were awarded named professorships.  Full Story

Vinodchandran Variyam, professor in the School of Computing.
August 26, 2023 - Vinodchandran Variyam, professor in the School of Computing, and a group of colleagues turned an idea sparked during a 2019 dinner conversation into an algorithm that could potentially change mass data analysis by addressing a longstanding challenge.  Full Story

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