A roundup of honors and achievements for faculty and staff in the College of Engineering in the past several weeks includes the NIH Director's New Innovator Award, an ASEE Fellow designation and a AMiner's Most Influential Scholars listing, along with several news stories.
Angela Pannier, associate professor of biological systems engineering, has received a 2017 National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award and is the first University of Nebraska-Lincoln researcher to earn this honor.
The New Innovator Award supports exceptionally creative, early-career researchers pursuing innovative projects with the potential to transform their field of study. The award will support Pannier's work to develop novel methods that improve use of adult stem cells in gene therapy, a promising tool for treating a variety of diseases.
"I'm excited to use some new strategies that have never been used in the field before," Pannier said. "We'll be able to understand the system on a much bigger scale and move forward into applications."
https://commonfund.nih.gov/newinnovator/AwardRecipients
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Matthew Dwyer, Sebastian Elbaum and Gregg Rothermel, all professors of computer science and engineering, have been named to AMiner's Most Influential Scholars list for the field of software engineering.
With three winners, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln placed fifth in the software engineering category of AMiner’s Institutes of Winners list, which denotes the research institutes with the most award winners in each category.
Dwyer, computer science and engineering department chair, was listed as a Top 10 Most Influential Scholar and ranked fourth overall.
Rothermel and Elbaum ranked 17th and 74th, respectively.
http://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/smart-bandage-could-promote-better-faster-healing/
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Lance C. Pérez, interim dean and Omar H. Heins Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was chosen to become an American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Fellow during the organization's recent conference in Columbus, Ohio.
Pérez was one of 11 faculty from across the country accorded the honor. The ASEE Fellow is given to society members in recognition of outstanding contributions to engineering or engineering technology education.
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Professor of Civil Engineering Christopher Tuan and his conductive concrete has been recognized with a 2017 TechConnect Defense Innovation award. Only 15 percent of all innovations submitted to the Defense Innovation Summit (DITAC) were selected for this award.
Rankings are based on the potential positive impact the submitted technology will have for the warfighter and national security.
Tuan's conductive concrete mix for building construction helps resolve critical needs for shielding electromagnetic pulses from a high-altitude nuclear explosion (HEMP) and from sudden magnetic field fluctuations. His conductive concrete is a building material that can offer shielding and provide electromagnetic field immunity and radiated emission security. An enclosure provides effective shielding at 10 kHz to 18 GHz. Compared to the cost and expense of a Farady cage, a conductive concrete shelter is 85 percent less expensive and maintenance-free.
http://defenseinnovation.us/partner/showcase/list.html
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A smart bandage that could eventually heal chronic wounds or battlefield injuries is being developed by Ali Tamoyal, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, and researchers from Harvard and MIT.
Tamayol’s work includes developing tools for solving medical challenges and the design, fabrication and characterization of microsystems and fibrous biomaterials for emerging applications such as tissue engineering and drug delivery platforms.
Read about their smart bandage research: https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/smart-bandage-releases-meds-command-183257754.html
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Presage Analytics, the company Jeyam Subbiah (BSE) helped co-found, has been featured in the Lincoln Journal-Star and Silicon Prairie News. He worked with entrepreneur Matthew Wegener and professor Harshavardhan Thippareddi to found the company through NuTech Ventures.
http://journalstar.com/business/local/local-software-companies-replace-paper-based-data-processes/article_490315f6-d893-5105-9451-768c9fb271bb.html
http://siliconprairienews.com/2017/10/isoft-data-systems-presage-analytics-replace-paper-based-data-processes/?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=DailySPNPost&utm_content=101117_iSoft
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More than 30 engineering faculty, students and staff attended the Biomedical Engineering Society annual meeting Oct. 11-14 in Phoenix. The theme of this year’s meeting was “Engineering Personalized Medicine and Therapies.”