Mechanical & Materials Engineering News

Jian Wang, associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering.
September 09, 2018 - Jian Wang, associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering, will receive the Materials Today 2018 Rising Star Award in the Materials Genome division. The award will be presented at Rice University in Houston, Texas, Sept. 27-28  Full Story

Mechanical and materials engineering assistant professors Bai Cui (left) and Prahalada Rao.
August 24, 2018 - Mechanical and materials engineering assistant professors Bai Cui and Prahalada Rao will collaborate with Tethon 3D to design and produce a ceramic/metal 3-D printer after receiving a grant from the Nebraska Department of Economic Development.  Full Story

Jae Sung Park meets with students on his research team.
August 23, 2018 - Jae Sung Park, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, has earned a $177,433 fellowship opportunity with the National Science Foundation to collaborate on a project studying turbulence in fluid mechanics.  Full Story

Timothy Wei is studying the swimming efficiency of marine life. The research has several applications including in athletics and a potential use in the military.
August 23, 2018 - Timothy Wei, Richard L. McNeel professor of mechanical and materials engineering, is studying the swimming efficiency of marine life. The research has several applications including in athletics and a potential use in the military.  Full Story

Shane Farritor, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, is featured in the Faculty 101 podcast.
August 10, 2018 - Shane Farritor, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, is featured in the latest Faculty 101 podcast. Farritor discusses designing robots that can perform surgery and shares advice on how to succeed in college and how to raise creative kids.  Full Story

A recent Nuclear Regulatory Commission grant will bolster the research of Bai Cui (left), assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, into developing new materials to be used in construction of the next generation of nuclear reactors. Jeffrey Shield (center), chair and professor of mechanical and materials engineering, and Michael Nastasi (right), professor of mechanical and materials engineering, collaborated on the grant.
July 27, 2018 - A recent grant from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will bolster engineering research into nuclear energy and could provide multiple benefits to the College of Engineering, its future students and the State of Nebraska.  Full Story

Ali Tamayol (left), assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering; and Prahalada Rao, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering.
July 25, 2018 -  Using 3-D printing to generate tissue that could close wounds like a shark bite may be science fiction today, but Nebraska mechanical and materials engineering researchers are striving to make this scenario a reality.  Full Story

Timothy Wei, Richard L. McNeel Professor of mechanical and materials engineering.
July 24, 2018 - The fastest humans can swim about one-tenth as fast as the fastest sharks. What separates us from the creatures of the sea? Could we ever close the gap? Nebraska Engineering's Timothy Wei discusses his reasearch.  Full Story

Thomas Hafner, undergraduate student in mechanical and materials engineering.
July 16, 2018 - Thomas Hafner, a student in mechanical and materials engineering, has been selected as a finalist in the Young Engineers Paper Contest in the ASME Fluids Engineering Division at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition.  Full Story

The Husker Rocketry Team: Nate Mann, Brandon Warren, Bricen Margritz, Joseph Broadway, Quinn Brandt, Elizabeth Spaulding, Conner Vokoun, Kenny Thomason, Dillon Margritz, Stephanie Vavra and Grant King
June 21, 2018 - A rocket system designed and constructed by the Husker Rocketry team in the College of Engineering placed third at the Space Grant Midwest High-Power Rocketry Competition in May.  Full Story