Shaobin Li, a civil engineering Ph.D. student focused on environmental engineering, earned the inaugural Student Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Leadership Award from the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA). The award was presented to Li at the 18th annual ACLCA conference in Fort Collins, Colorado, and recognizes Li’s leadership and research efforts in pioneering the development of sustainability assessment techniques to apply in the meat packing industry by developing an innovative framework of sustainability assessment. This includes integrating LCA with food safety to evaluate antimicrobial systems of the beef packing industry and incorporating LCA to evaluate human health from environmental risks with occupational and foodborne risks. Li is co-advised by Bruce Dvorak, professor of civil engineering, and Jeyam Subbiah, professor of biological systems engineering.
https://engineering.unl.edu/shaobin-li-earns-student-leadership-award-lca-xviii-conference/
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Suzette Person, associate professor of computer science and engineering, and former CSE faculty Matthew Dwyer and Sebastian Elbaum, received the Test of Time Award at the 2018 ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering. This award is given annually to recognize highly influential papers published 10 years ago.
https://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/cse/8550/49401
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Kieren Smith, a graduate student in architectural engineering, has received the Leo and Gabriella Beranek Scholarship in Architectural Acoustics and Noise Control from the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). The Beranek Scholarship is a $30,000 award that is given to support graduate study in the fields of architectural acoustics and noise control. First awarded in 2016, it is given annually to a student who is a U.S. citizen enrolled at a university that offers a graduate degree program in those fields. Smith is the first Nebraska student to receive this award. Smith is advised by Lily Wang, professor of architectural engineering. Their current research project is evaluating how room comfort parameters, including acoustics, affect student achievement in K-12 classrooms. In addition to working on this project, Smith is also doing independent analysis of how these parameters fluctuate during the school day.
https://engineering.unl.edu/asa-awards-prestigious-beranek-scholarship-kieren-smith/
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Congratulations to Dean Lance C. Pérez and Team USA for winning the 2018 Japan Wheelchair Softball Championships Oct. 6-8. Pérez was one of 15 athletes chosen to compete on the team. It was his second selection for the national team for this event. Recently, Pérez and his Nebraska Barons team won their 12th national wheelchair softball championship in Kansas City, Kan.