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Nebraska engineers Christopher Tuan (left) and Lim Nguyen have developed a cost-effective concrete that shields against damaging electromagnetic energy.
November 14, 2016 - Nebraska engineers Christopher Tuan and Lim Nguyen have developed a cost-effective concrete that shields against intense pulses of electromagnetic energy, or EMP.  Full Story

Dr. Daniel Linzell Delivers the keynote speech during the 2016 Fall Banquet at the Strategic Air and Space Museum
November 03, 2016 - The Department of Civil Engineering hosted its second annual Fall Banquet on Saturday, October 29th, 2016  Full Story

Laurence Rilett, professor of civil engineering and director of the Nebraska Transportation Center
October 19, 2016 - The University of Nebraska system's National Strategic Research Institute has earned a $1 million contract for UNL engineers to continue research on improving military checkpoints.  Full Story

Front: Dan Snow, Water Sciences Laboratory; Manish Kumar, WARI fellow; Jesse Starita, Water for Food Institute; Rajesh Singh, WARI fellow. Middle: Chittaranjan Ray, Nebraska Water Center; Rajeev Pratap Singh, WARI fellow; Sanjeeb Mohapatra, WARI intern; Himanshu Kumar Khuntia, WARI intern. Back: Pat Shea, School of Natural Resources, UNL; Alan Kolok, professor, Biology, UNO; Khalid Muzamil Gani, WARI intern; Arindam Malakar, WARI intern. Also pictured is Rufai Ayuba, visiting scholar, Water Sciences Lab
October 04, 2016 - The Water Advanced Research and Innovation (WARI) Fellowship Program brings Ph.D. students and professors from universities in India to the University of Nebraska to work with faculty mentors on water quality issues.  Full Story

Daniel Linzell (left), chair of civil engineering, and Chungwook Sim, assistant professor of civil engineering, are co-principal investigators on a collaborative effort with UNO's College of Information Science and Technology, on an NSF-funded project that aims to use big data solutions to improve the way bridge infrastructure is monitored for potential failures.
September 28, 2016 - Two UNL civil engineering faculty are part of an NSF-funded collaboration with UNO to use big data to improve monitoring of bridge infrastructure for potential failures.  Full Story

A team of UNL engineers - (from left) Yong-Rak Kim, professor of civil engineering; doctoral students Mahdieh Khedmati, Charles Nguyen and Gabriel Nsengiyumva; and Joseph Turner, Robert W. Brightfelt professor of mechanical engineering - is working to find greener, cheaper and more durable concrete mixtures with alternative and recycled materials.
September 28, 2016 - Civil and mechanical and materials engineers get small in their search for cheaper, greener concrete mixtures made from alternative binders and recycled materials.  Full Story

Chungwook Sim surveying a building with short captive columns
September 22, 2016 - Chungwook Sim, assistant professor of civil engineering, recently led a team of researchers to Ecuador to assess earthquake damage and evaluate a vulnerability index for building damage.  Full Story

Rafael Estrada (left) with Civil Engineering students Darshan Baral and Yutian Lei
September 19, 2016 - AWWA/WEF students attended World O! Water, a water pollution education event.  Full Story

UNL Civil Engineering students in Prague
September 09, 2016 - Graduate students Alison Kathol and Zach Mahon visited Prague to study the movement of water through soil as part<span style="line-height: 1.777;">&nbsp;of a collaboration between UNL and the Czech Technical University at Prague.</span>  Full Story

Jinying Zhu, assistant professor of civil engineering
July 26, 2016 - Jinying Zhu, assistant professor of civil engineering, will lead research to develop an online monitoring system to evaluate the health and durability of concrete structures, particularly nuclear power plants, affected by alkali-silica reaction (ASR).  Full Story



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