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Bill Quatman, general counsel for Burns & McDonnell, on Feb. 18 will discuss the lessons learned from the 1981 Hyatt Regency skywalk collapse.
January 06, 2019 - Years before the Oklahoma City bombing or the 9/11 attacks, the 1981 collapse of the skywalks inside the Hyatt Regency hotel in Kansas City, Missouri was called “the most devastating structural collapse ever to take place in this country.”  Full Story

Civil engineering researchers (from left) Daniel Linzell, Richard L. Wood and Christine E. Wittich discuss what they've learned from sifting through data collected during the December 2017 demolition of Cather and Pound residence halls.
January 03, 2019 - The razing of Cather and Pound residence halls was quite a sight to see. But for Nebraska civil engineering researchers collecting data that day, it was a moment of silence during the blast sequence that may be the most resonant.  Full Story

Tareq Daher, director of the Engineering and Computing Education Core.
November 12, 2018 - Seven doctoral students from the College of Engineering are the first cohort participating in the Graduate Student Training Fellows Program (GSTFP), which aims to prepare students to become successful teachers when they become faculty at a university.  Full Story

Drs. Yong-Rak Kim, Joseph Turner, and civil engineering graduate student Mahdieh Khedmati.
October 31, 2018 - With funding from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Yong-Rak Kim is leading a multi-disciplinary research team to understand binding of concrete. Kim’s team has found promising alternatives to conventional cement-based concrete.  Full Story

Three faculty – (from left) Daniel Linzell, Aemal Khattak and Lily Wang – have accepted new roles in the College of Engineering’s leadership team.
October 25, 2018 - Changes in the College of Engineering leadership team have brought new roles for three faculty – Daniel Linzell, Lily Wang and Aemal Khattak.  Full Story

Left to Right: Bill Flanagan, ACLCA chair; Shaobin Li, Civil Engineering PhD Student; Debbie Steckel, ACLCA Executive Director
October 03, 2018 - Shaobin Li, a civil engineering Ph.D. student focused on environmental engineering, earned the inaugural Student Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Leadership Award from the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA)  Full Story

Including Nebraska Engineering faculty Daniel Linzell and Chungwook Sim, researchers working on the SMARTI project discuss the management and monitoring of rural bridge health on an edition of NET Nebraska's "Consider This."
September 24, 2018 - On NET's "Consider This," Nebraska civil engineering faculty Daniel Linzell and Chungwook Sim are part of the panel discussing a new initiative that focuses on the management and monitoring of rural bridge health.  Full Story

University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering is 80th in the U.S. News list of top U.S. undergraduate engineering programs.
September 10, 2018 - The University of Nebraska-Lincoln programs No. 61 ranking in the latest U.S. News college rankings is in part fueled by the College of Engineering's rise to No. 80 among U.S. undergraduate engineering programs.  Full Story

A $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation will enable UNO and UNL professors to collaborate on producing a big data pipeline for rural bridges.
September 05, 2018 - A new regional innovation center, funded by a $1 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant will be geared toward producing a big data pipeline for rural bridge health management and will include UNL civil engineering faculty.  Full Story

Dr. Ray's research will look at chemical leaching and subsoil injection of carbon.
August 02, 2018 - The Nebraska Environmental Trust (NET) has awarded funding to Dr. Chittaranjan Ray, professor of civil engineering and Director of the Daugherty Water for Food Institute, for two research projects to study approaches for improving our groundwater.  Full Story



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