The COE Update

Celebrating Pride Month in June.
Celebrating Pride Month in June.

Celebrating Pride Month in June

June is Pride Month and we are featuring the stories of outstanding members of our Nebraska Engineering community as part of our ongoing spotlight of students, faculty, and staff.

  • Kelly Broad, senior, Biological Systems Engineering
  • Seth Caines, junior, Biological Systems Engineering
  • Sidney Matthias, junior, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Ryan Olson, vice president, oSTEM@Nebraska
  • Jen Skidmore, director of student development, Engineering Student Services

Click the link below to read their inspiring stories; as always, you are welcome to share your own personal story.

More details at: https://engineering.unl.edu/celebrating-diversity/
 
Achievements, June 22, 2021
Achievements, June 22, 2021

In the latest installment of this recurring feature, we recognize some of the recent accomplishments, awards and honors earned by College of Engineering faculty, staff and students:

  • Sri Kidambi, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and his team presented their work at the virtual FASEB Liver Biology Conference June 16-17.
  • Shudipto Dishari, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and graduate students Seefat Farzin and Ehsan Zamani, had their paper “Unraveling Depth-Specific Ionic Conduction and Stiffness Behavior across Ionomer Thin Films and Bulk Membranes,” published in the journal ACS Macro Letters: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsmacrolett.1c00110
  • Markeya Peteranetz, learning assessment coordinator in the Engineering and Computing Education Core, wrote a paper on changes in computer science students’ goals during a semester, and it was accepted for the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, to be held Oct. 13-16 in Lincoln.
  • A team from the Architectural Engineering program earned a $10,000 prize in the 2021 NCEES Engineering Education Award competition. Nebraska teams have won awards in five of the past six competitions. https://go.unl.edu/e8gc

 
Originally published June 22, 2021 - Submit an Item