April 08, 2015 - A business co-founded by Tom Frederick, a graduate student in mechanical engineering and applied sciences, won a $50,000 prize on Tuesday in a UNL competition and could be headed for even bigger things.
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March 18, 2015 - UNL engineers Florin Bobaru, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, and Ziguang Chen, postdoctoral researcher, are the first to develop a model that looks beyond the surface of corrosion to better predict its spread.
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March 02, 2015 - <span>A collaboration between UNL engineers and Purdue University plant biologists helped researchers gain a better understanding of how plant cells grow and gain their shapes. Their results are published in the March 2 edition of Nature: Plants.</span>
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February 23, 2015 - A video about research done at UNL by Jung Yul Lim, associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering, into ways of controlling obesity on NSF's Science360 News web site.
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February 17, 2015 - Throwing old TVs or phones into the trash one day may not hurt the environment. Jinsong Huang, an assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, leads a team developing organic transparent transistors that are environmentally friendly.
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February 06, 2015 - Shane Farritor, professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and his team have received a $2.8 million extension of their U.S. Army grant to fund research into developing devices for robotic telesurgery.
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January 30, 2015 - Jinsong Huang, associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering, and colleagues have discovered that the potential energy efficiency in a promising solar cell material is more promising than previously demonstrated.
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January 23, 2015 - Two graduate students from the College of Engineering - Yuchuan Shao and Phillipp Kuehne - were among those honored on Jan. 15 at the Graduate Awards Reception at the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center.
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January 23, 2015 - A team of UNL researchers led by Jinsong Huang, associate professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, had a paper published in the December 2014 edition of the prestigious journal Nature Materials.
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January 21, 2015 - Using a hot-water drill and an underwater robotic vehicle designed, built and operated by a team of UNL engineers, scientists have made discoveries about Antarctica's geology and biology.
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