A collaborative project between a team of Nebraska Engineering researchers – led by Joe Turner, professor of mechanical and materials engineering – and researchers from the University of Rouen in France was selected for the cover of the journal Fibers (Issue 1, Volume 6, 2018). The paper – “Interfacial Characterization by Pull-Out Test of Bamboo Fibers Embedded in Poly(Lactic Acid),” co-authored by Turner, Antonella Esposito and Jean-Marc Saiter, adjunct faculty in mechanical and materials engineering, Quentin Viel and Carlo Santulli – showed a process of quantifying “the apparent shear strength at the interface between a bamboo fiber and the surrounding poly(lactic acid) (PLA) matrix.”
Read the full article at: http://www.mdpi.com/2079-6439/6/1/7
- - - - - - -
NUtech Ventures would like to congratulate the following innovators at UNL’s College of Engineering for obtaining one or more provisional patent application filings during calendar year 2017:
Fadi Alsaleem, Yang Bai, Robert Bielenberg, Trevor Craig, Lou Cubrich, Amita Daverey, Leimin Deng, Yehao Deng, Jason Dumpert, Ronald Faller, Shane Farritor, Raul Garay Romero, Mohammad Hasan, Jim Holloway, Jinsong Huang, Srivatsan Kidambi, Karla Lechtenberg, Yongfeng Lu, Mateusz Mittek, George Morcous, Carl Nelson, Matthew Newman, Lim Nguyen, Nicholas Palermo, Joseph Palmowski, Lance Perez, Eric Psota, Wei Qiao, Liyan Qu, John Reid, Scott Rosenbaugh, Sunandita Sarker, Jennifer Schmidt, Shiding Sun, Raed Tawadrous, Benjamin Terry, Christopher Tuan, Jun Wang, Ze Wang, Nathan Wulff, Chenfei Zhang and Xiaopeng Zheng.
If you have any questions regarding the invention disclosure process, please contact Zane Gernhart (zgernhart@nutechventures.org) or Mauricio Suarez (msuarez@nutechventures.org).
- - - - - - -
A paper – "On a Queueing Theory Method to Simulate In-Silico Metabolic Networks"
-- written Tad Wysocki, professor of electrical and computer engineering, was published as an Editor’s Choice in the recent issue of Current Metabolomics.
- - - - - - -
Colton Harper, a junior in computer science and engineering, traveled to Honolulu, Hawaii, in mid-April to present a paper at IEEE INFOCOM 2018. The paper, “Estimating Information Exchange Performance of Engineered Cell-to-Cell Molecular Communications: A Computational Approach,” examines the implementation of molecular communication through computational methods. The paper was co-authored by Massimiliano Pierobon, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, and Maurizio Magarini of Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi) in Milan, Italy.
http://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/cse/7994/45853
- - - - - - -
A paper – “Tunable nonlinear coherent perfect absorption in epsilon-near-zero plasmonic waveguides" – written by Christos Argyropoulos, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Ying Li, graduate student in electrical and computer engineering, has been published as an Editor’s Pick in Optics Letters, a journal of the Optical Society of America and one of the leading journals in the field of optics and photonics.
Read the article at: https://www.osapublishing.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-43-8-1806
- - - - - - -
Joshua Mueller, doctoral student in chemical engineering, has been selected to receive a 2018 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Mueller received his B.S. in chemical engineering from Nebraska in 2017 and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. under the supervision of Wei Niu, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering.
- - - - - - -
Huiyuan Liu, a doctoral student in civil engineering, has been named a 2018 Traffic Safety Scholar (TSS) and was awarded a $1,000 scholarship to attend the 37th annual National Lifesavers Conference on Highway Safety Priorities, April 22-24 in San Antonio, Texas. Liu is one of 50 U.S. and international college students selected through a competitive application process. The Lifesavers Conference showcases the latest research, evidence-based strategies, proven countermeasures, and promising new approaches for addressing the nation’s most pressing traffic safety problems.
- - - - - - -
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln was chosen as one of the “25 Best Colleges for Precision Agriculture” by PrecisionAg. The article cited the Department of Biological Systems Engineering and program lead Joe Luck, describing the mission of the program – “the Nebraska Extension Precision Ag Data Management Workshops offer hands-on exercises that focus on yield data quality, geospatial data collection, multi-layer analysis, imagery analysis, and more. Extension work encompasses site-specific management strategies, precision agriculture technology use, and farm management software training.”