Recognition / Accomplishments

There’s a lot to catch up on in the college. Check out recent news about our faculty and students on the college's news webpage. A few highlights from June and July 2017 include:

Prahalada Rao (MME) – named one of 17 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineers nationally for his exceptional contributions and accomplishments in the manufacturing industry

Joe Luck (BSE) – named educator/ researcher of the year by the Precision Ag Institute

Mid-America Transportation Center and Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs – helped create the Sovereign Native Youth STEM Leadership Academy

Lily Wang (graduate programs/faculty development) – named president-elect of the Acoustical Society of America for 2017-18

DSAEC – held its 15th annual Tradition of Excellence Golf Tournament in Omaha (60+ teams and close to 250 construction industry professionals)

Ruiguo Yang (MME) – earned Early Stage Investor Project award from the Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication (NCICB). Yang and Limei Zhang (biochemistry) earned the ESIP awards.

Yong-Rak Kim (CIVE) and Ph.D. students Madieh Khedmati and Hani Alanazi - received Best Paper Award at 2017 International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Constructed Infrastructure Facilities

Charles Riedesel and Ryan Patrick (CSE) - Capacity Building Grant awarded to enable computer science and computer engineering students to travel and study in the Middle East

More details at: http://engineering.unl.edu/news/