To share the stories of our faculty, staff, students and alumni, the college is celebrating heritage and other nationally recognized months. February is Black History Month. See interviews with Alisa Gilmore (ECE) and students Aaron Young and Noelle Atieno Mware.
More details at: https://engineering.unl.edu/celebrating-diversity/
On Tuesday, Feb. 16, the College of Engineering Seminar Series will welcome Stephanie Adams, dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas, Dallas. Adams will meet with faculty, staff and students before conducting a Zoom presentation. Register at link below.
The Master of Engineering Management program has risen two places to 21st in the U.S. News & World Report list of Best Online Master’s in Engineering Programs. In December, the MEM program was awarded ASEM certification, becoming one of only eight U.S. programs accorded that honor.
The Graduate Engineering Student Advisory Board will present the Graduate Student Symposium on Friday, Feb. 26. Faculty and staff are encouraged to attend the virtual event. The symposium includes keynotes, session talks, and both design and pitch competitions. Click the link below to register.
More details at: https://go.unl.edu/gradsymposium21
From noon Feb. 17 to noon Feb. 18, the University of Nebraska Foundation is celebrating the annual Glow Big Red — 24 Hours of Husker Giving campaign. Faculty and staff in the College of Engineering are encouraged to participate and support Husker students and their campuses. Continue reading…
UCARE’s First Year Research Experience (FYRE) program has capacity to engage additional student-mentor pairs this Spring semester and is seeking faculty who are interested in hosting a FYRE student (through April 30) in their research efforts. For more information about FYRE, click the link below. Continue reading…
More details at: https://ucare.unl.edu/opportunities/fyre
University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate students are invited to a Wednesday, Feb. 17 webinar and panel discussion to learn about applying for National Research Service Award fellowship grants from the National Institutes of Health. Registration is required. Click the link below to learn more or to register.
https://research.unl.edu/blog/grad-students-invited-to-feb-17-webinar-on-nih-research-funding/
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The Office of Research and Economic Development is offering its annual Write Winning Grant Proposals seminar via Zoom over a two-day period, Thursday, March 18 from 1-4:30 p.m. Central Time and Friday, March 19 from 7:30 a.m. – noon Central Time. Registration is open and required to attend. Click the link below to learn more or to register.
https://research.unl.edu/research-education/2021-grant-writing-seminar/
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The 2021 NSF ENG CAREER Workshop will be held virtually April 21- 23. The workshop aims to provide junior faculty who plan to submit a CAREER Award proposal to a program in the NSF’s Directorate for Engineering (ENG) with a CAREER proposal review experience and a forum in which they can interact with NSF Program Directors and recent NSF CAREER awardees.
The workshop will be held from 1-5 p.m. on those dates. More information about the workshops will be announced soon.
5/7: City Campus, UNL Spring Graduate Commencement and Doctoral Hooding Ceremony
5/8: City Campus, UNL Spring Semester Undergraduate Commencement
5/10: Scott Campus, UNO Spring Commencement, Baxter Arena – 8 a.m., engineering undergraduate students; 7:30 p.m., engineering graduate students https://www.unomaha.edu/special-events/commencement/
5/10: COE Master of Engineering Management Information Session, noon, Zoom
The College of Engineering is seeking nominations for the college’s annual Employee Awards Celebration awards. There is no limit to the number of awards for which an individual may be nominated, and all nominations must be submitted online by March 1, 2021 (link below). Continue reading…
The application deadline for Voelte-Keegan Bioengineering Fund support is 5 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 10. Don Voelte and Nancy Keegan established a new fund at UNL to support small grant requests in bioengineering research that utilizes research core facilities at NCMN and NERCF. Continue reading…
Faculty looking to fill their graduate student openings have a few options for advertising those positions. This article examines two of those options. If you need more information, contact your department chair or Kayla Person, director of engineering graduate programs.