November 30, 2022 - After a 2020 derecho hit east-central Iowa, Nebraska's Christine Wittich conducted "structural reconnaissance" on a unique case study to learn why four of an interconnected group of five grain bins were destroyed and one was left totally intact.
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November 29, 2022 - More than $1.4 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will allow two College of Engineering teams to expand innovative energy-related research in partnership with national laboratories.
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November 22, 2022 - Ten faculty from the College of Engineering have been honored with new named professorships, bringing to 27 the total of named professorships in the college.
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November 11, 2022 - The Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) Program has awarded stipends to 202 Husker undergraduates — including 43 College of Engineering students — to participate in research with a faculty mentor this fall.
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October 28, 2022 - A civil and environmental engineering research team was chosen to receive the ASCE 2022 T.Y. Lin Award for a paper that proposes flexural design recommendations for precast, pretensioned ultrahigh-performance concrete applications.
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October 28, 2022 - Leading-edge technology developed by University of Nebraska researchers to monitor the health of rural bridges in Nebraska was chosen as a winner of the NATO Innovation Challenge and could be applied to transportation systems throughout Europe.
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October 13, 2022 - Inspired by the ability of the human body to heal itself, Congrui "Grace" Jin has been awarded a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award to support research using microorganisms to develop a concrete that can heal its own cracks.
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September 23, 2022 - Forty first-year students in the College of Engineering – including 10 who will be based on Scott Campus in Omaha – have been chosen to the inaugural cohort of the Peter Kiewit Foundation Engineering Academy.
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September 07, 2022 - Nathan Huynh has been named the second director of the Nebraska Transportation Center (NTC). Huynh, who was selected from a nationwide search, will start at UNL on January 2, 2023.
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August 22, 2022 - Jae Sung Park and Yusong Li are working on a three-year, $418,120 NSF grant to learn how small particles – some less than one-tenth the width of a human hair – better move through confined fluid flows in transport systems, such as pipes.
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