Heidi Diefes-Dux, left, was named an ASEE Fellow, and Jena Asgarpoor received the Keating Award for Innovation and Leadership in Lifelong Learning in Graduate Engineering Education.
Heidi Diefes-Dux was named a Fellow and Jena Asgarpoor received the Keating Award, leading a spate of awards and honors earned by Nebraska Engineering faculty and students at the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) annual conference June 26-29 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
A crane towers over the site of Kiewit Hall, which is under construction at the corner of 17th and Vine streets.
IN THE NEWS: Kiewit Hall in spotlight
Highlights from the Nebraska Engineering community receiving recognition in the media include:
COLLEGE NEWS
Kiewit Hall construction progress featured in ConstructionEquipmentGuide.com article. https://go.unl.edu/w0rz
FACULTY
School of Computing faculty Leen-Kiat Soh and Brittany Duncan are part of a Husker team leading research to smooth the transition of students from two-year colleges to four-year institutions. https://go.unl.edu/dxwk
If you know of someone who has been featured in the media, contact Karl Vogel – kvogel2@unl.edu – to be included in future editions.
Achievements for July 11, 2022.
JULY 11: Research papers, alumni honors
In the latest installment of this recurring feature, which appears in the COE Update on the third Monday of each month, we recognize recent accomplishments, awards and honors earned by College of Engineering faculty, staff and students:
iScience publishes paper on metabolic landscape of pancreatic cancer by Rajib Saha, researchers from chemical and biomolecular engineering and UNMC. https://go.unl.edu/2yud
Paper co-authored by Shudipto Dishari, Vitaly Alexandrov, and chemical and biomolecular engineering research team published in Journal of American Chemical Society. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacsau.2c00143
Santosh Pitla, Cody Stolle co-authors of Best Paper Award at Midwest Association for Information Systems annual conference. https://go.unl.edu/7j3d
ALUMNI HONORS
Construction management alum Jason Peschel named interim director of School of Design and Construction at Washington State. https://go.unl.edu/rhts
Civil engineering alum Doug Engle has been named general manager of Midwest Foundation, the marine division of Alberici Constructors, Inc. https://go.unl.edu/q6j5
If you know of faculty, staff or students who have been awarded major grants or awards, been published in prestigious journals, were recognized with awards at conferences or other events, or any other newsworthy achievements, contact Karl Vogel – kvogel2@unl.edu.
The ASEE 2022 Midwest Section Conference (Sept. 11-13 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) has issued a call for papers. The conference will have full papers, short papers, student poster presentations, and a student IGNITE session. The submission deadline has been extended to Sunday, August 7.
