ECE News Archives

While in the Army, Zachary Meade was a bomb squad technician. Now a UNL electrical and computer engineering student in Omaha, Meade is looking forward to a career that would use engineering, military and research backgrounds to make better prosthetic devices for wounded veterans.
March 14, 2016 - After working in bomb disposal unit of Army, electrical engineering major Zachary Meade lands in Omaha with goal of doing prosthesis research to help wounded fellow veterans.  Full Story

Greg Hyslop, a UNL electrical engineering alumnus, has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Engineering, Test & Technology of The Boeing Company.
March 14, 2016 - Greg Hyslop, a member of the College of Engineering Advisory Board and a 1980 electrical engineering graduate, has been promoted to senior vice president of Boeing Engineering, Test & Technology of The Boeing Company.  Full Story

Curtis Tomasevicz, lecturer in electrical and computer engineering, shows a squat bar with sensors that are used to measure athletic performance in the Nebraska Athletic Performance Laboratory in Memorial Stadium. Tomasevicz, also a graduate student in biological systems engineering, is working at NAPL while doing doctoral research into how athletes create power while jumping vertically.
March 09, 2016 - From playing football for the Huskers and pushing a bobsled at the Olympics, Curtis Tomasevicz learned much about generating force on a horizontal plane. Now doing his doctoral research, Tomasevicz is taking off in a new direction.  Full Story

Liyan Qu, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, recently earned a five-year, $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program Award from the National Science Foundation to develop a next-generation power grid transformer. (Craig Chandler / University Communications)
February 26, 2016 - Liyan Qu, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, recently earned a five-year, $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program Award from the National Science Foundation to develop a next-generation power grid transformer.  Full Story

Daryl Dodoo, a junior computer engineering major, explains how to work the controls of a robot to 9-year-old Mia Vogel of Lincoln during the 2015 Nebraska Robotics Expo.
February 17, 2016 - Nearly 1,000 K-12 students, team leaders and math and science teachers form Nebraska will pack the Strategic Air & Space Museum in Ashland on Saturday, February 20 for the annual Nebraska Robotics Expo.  Full Story

UNL researchers - (from left) Christos Argyropoulos, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering; Stephen Morin, assistant professor of chemistry; and Jay Taylor, graduate student in chemistry - have developed a method for crafting elastic materials with a matte appearance that become highly reflective when stretched.
February 17, 2016 - Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Christos Argyropoulos and his colleagues have developed a method for crafting elastic materials that feature a matte appearance when relaxed but become highly reflective when stretched.  Full Story

In a building that used to house the Cornhusker football team, engineering faculty are playing a big role in the Nebraska Intelligent Mobile Unmanned Systems (NIMBUS) lab developing the future of drone technology.
February 17, 2016 - In a building that used to house the Cornhusker football team, engineering faculty are playing a big role in the Nebraska Intelligent Mobile Unmanned Systems (NIMBUS) lab developing the future of drone technology.  Full Story

Electrical and computer engineering students (from left) Alexander Meier, Sarah Porath and Drew Wiseman have received IEEE Power & Energy Society scholarships. Jacob Eckstrom, who also received one of the scholarships, is not pictured.
December 04, 2015 - Four UNL electrical engineering students – Jacob Eckstrom, Alexander Meier, Sarah Porath and Drew Wiseman – have been awarded $2,000 scholarships through the IEEE Power & Energy Society Scholarship Plus Initiative.  Full Story

Daktronics founder Al Kurtenbach, who received a master's degree in electrical engineering from UNL, speaks to students in the ELEC 121 class during Masters Week in early November.
November 20, 2015 - Al Kurtenbach knew little about running a business when he started Daktronics, but after nearly a half century of building an electronics manufacturing giant the UNL Alumni Master advised engineering students to prepare to change their plans.  Full Story

Put A Sock In It accepts donated socks at 85 locations across UNL's campuses and has distributed more than 3,000 pairs to people in need.
October 27, 2015 - Put A Sock In It, a nonprofit organization founded by three UNL students, is putting its collective engineering experience toward helping Lincoln's homeless population and is also finding a foothold nationally.  Full Story