February was a big month for College of Engineering-led research, with more than 1,000 news outlets from around the world focused on Shane Farritor, Lederer Professor of Engineering, and his oldest son, Luke, a senior computer science major in the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management; and on the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility.
- The Miniaturized In vivo Robotic Assistant (spaceMIRA), controlled by surgeons at Virtual Incision’s headquarters in Lincoln, performed a successful simulated procedure aboard the International Space Station on Feb. 10. The robot was invented by Shane Farritor, who is also co-founder and chief technology officer of Virtual Incision.
- Luke Farritor was named a co-winner of the $700,000 Grand Prize in the Vesuvius Challenge on Feb. 5 for using AI to decipher at least four passages of text, each 140-plus characters long, from digital scans of an ancient seared scroll.
- The Midwest Roadside Safety Facility on Jan. 31 released the results of two crash tests indicating that a common guardrail system used on many roads cannot handle electric vehicles, which are heavier and have a lower center of gravity.
Nebraska Today rounded up links to many of the international media outlets who have reported on these stories. https://go.unl.edu/nsmq
COLLEGE NEWS
- Heartland Robotics Cluster providing training, programming on next-gen robots through Innovation Studio. https://engineering.unl.edu/news/240223/NIS_robots_training/
STUDENTS
- Big Red Satellite Team eagerly awaits NASA launch including its satellite as a payload. https://engineering.unl.edu/news/242022/satellite_NASA_launch/
- 2024 Engineers Week featured in Daily Nebraskan. https://go.unl.edu/x8u9
If you know of someone who has been featured in the media, contact Karl Vogel – kvogel2@unl.edu – so it can be included in future editions.