Mechanical & Materials Engineering News

Shane Farritor (center), professor of mechanical and materials engineering and chief technical officer of Virtual Incision, receives the Prem S. Paul Innovator of the Year Award from Brad Roth (left), NUtech Ventures executive director, and Bob Wilhelm, University of Nebraska-Lincoln vice chancellor of research and economic development.
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A black sheen of oil floats on the surface of Pearl Harbor. The oil, released from the U.S.S. Arizona, rises to the surface as visitors look on from the memorial above. (NPS Submerged Resources Center)
December 01, 2019 - As the sunken USS Arizona continues to corrode in Pearl Harbor, the research by a Nebraska Engineering team - led by a former mechanical and materials engineering professor and two alumni - is gaining more notice.  Full Story

At the 2019 Excellence in Research Celebration, held Nov. 5 at the Van Brunt Visitors Center, the College of Engineering honored 39 faculty for their impactful research in Nebraska and across the world.
November 13, 2019 - The College of Engineering recognized 39 faculty from the college's seven academic units at the annual Excellence in Research event Nov. 5 at the Van Brunt Center. Each of the honorees were nominated by their unit chairs for impactful research.  Full Story

By extending or retracting T-shaped sliders to narrow or widen a series of resonators, a new prototype from Nebraska's Mehrdad Negahban and colleagues can dynamically redirect sound waves passing through the surface.
November 12, 2019 - A sound wave-altering prototype from Mehrdad Negahban and Peking University colleagues that would allow surfaces to tune those waves could be used in applications like magnifying signals or disorienting adversaries.  Full Story

Virtual Incision is a startup at Nebraska Innovation Campus (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
November 12, 2019 - Nebraskans are doers and builders, and a hardware store in Ravenna may have been the perfect playground for an engineer who now designs tools that could save a soldier or astronaut's life.  Full Story

Mehrdad Negahban (left), professor of mechanical and materials engineering, received the Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Award for for Polymer Science and Technology at the International Polymer Characterization Forum (POLY-CHAR 2019) Conference in Nepal.
October 21, 2019 - Mehrdad Negahban, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, received the Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Award for for Polymer Science and Technology at the POLY-CHAR 2019 Conference in Nepal.  Full Story

Senior mechanical engineering major Zoe Jirovsky recently completed an internship at Premier Rides, where she worked with engineers on roller coaster designs.
October 09, 2019 - Zoe Jirovsky appreciates the roller coaster that is college life. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln senior is inching toward another momentum-building hill that will hurl her into the professional world, but she’s not dreading the freefall.  Full Story

Students from Yachay Tech University in Ecuador spent 10 weeks this summer in Lincoln doing research with University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering faculty.
September 30, 2019 - Five students from Yachay Tech, a recently opened university in Ecuador, spent 10 weeks this summer at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln working on projects with College of Engineering faculty in the inaugural UNL-Yachay Summer Research Experience.  Full Story

Bridging Big Data workshop is Oct. 14 at Nebraska Innovation Campus.
September 25, 2019 - The Oct. 14 Bridging Big Data 2019 workshop (BBD 2019) will bring together bridge dataset owners, big data solution providers and academics to discuss these problems and possible solution by focusing on big data pipelines for aging rural bridge infrastruc  Full Story

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September 25, 2019 - The College of Engineering has added 24 new faculty for 2019-20, including new Computer Science and Engineering Chair Marilyn Wolf, increasing total faculty hires to 45 over the past three years.  Full Story