A team of Nebraska construction management students, advised by assistant professor of practice Brandon Kreiling, took first place and set an event speed record at the annual Race to Build competition April 5-7 at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee.
With its victory, the Nebraska team also earned a $5,000 scholarship for the construction management program.
Students on the team included Steve Strehle, Nolan Olsen, Connor Pudenz, Tyler Wyman, Christian Chilton, Madisyn McClemmons, Camden Wrehe, Quentin Moore, Ryan Schroeder, Seth Rinderknect, Garrett Giesler, Matt McMahon, Erik Huskey and Rune VandenBoogaart.
Race to Build is held annually in April at the speedway during the week leading up to the Food City 500, one of the races in NASCAR’s premier circuit – the Monster Energy Series.
The Appalachia Service Project partners with the Bristol Motor Speedway for the project, in which teams of construction management students from three universities compete by building three homes as quickly as they can. The completed homes are given to three veteran families in the Tri-Cities region of northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia.
https://engineering.unl.edu/nebraska-construction-management-team-wins-race-build-competition-record-time/
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Bruce Dvorak, professor of civil engineering, was featured on IANR’s Market Journal and 10/11’s “Pure Nebraska” segments, where he discussed how the recent flooding in Nebraska may affect well water.
Watch the Market Journal episode at: https://youtu.be/5K3BfflVveY?t=739
Watch the Pure Nebraska segment at: https://www.facebook.com/PureNebraska/videos/2307574466178469/
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Engineering Student Services announced several staffing changes resulting from a reorganization designed to help them achieve the goals of increasing enrollment and improving the undergraduate experience by focusing on recruitment efforts and on student persistence through improved services.
The staffing changes are:
* Lori Straatmann is assuming a new role as Director of Enrollment Operations. She will provide her expertise to focus on various curricular and operational issues, including her working with the COE curriculum committee, the Honors Program and Education Abroad, serving as a liaison between ESS and our academic departments, facilitating the transitions for internal (UNO-UNL) transfer students, helping strengthen the pathways for transfer students from other institutions and facilitating any enrollment-related issues on the Scott Campus.
* Garrett Gassman has been promoted to Director of Advisement. He has been serving as Assistant Director of Advisement in the college, primarily working on Scott Campus. He will oversee Advisement for the college on both campuses.
* Bonnie Martin has been promoted to Assistant Director of Career Services. She was previously Career Services Coordinator on Scott Campus. Among many roles, she will work to increase student success while supporting the economic needs of Nebraska by helping prepare students to seek and find internships and full-time employment. ESS is seeking a Career Services Coordinator for Scott Campus, who will report to Bonnie.
* Jana Burns joins ESS as a new Recruitment Coordinator on Scott Campus. Jana brings 15 years of recruitment and higher education experience to the ESS recruitment team. This newly created position will help increase enrollment on Scott Campus, particularly in the Durham School programs.
ESS also converted an open advisor position into a Coordinator of Retention and Student Success, which will allow greater focus retaining and graduating students, and is seeking to hire that position soon.
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Please join us for the Graduate Student Recognition Event on May 1 as we celebrate our graduating master’s and Ph.D. students; and recognize our 2019 Spring Poster Fair winners, 2019 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant, Outstanding master’s thesis, Outstanding doctoral dissertation, and the 2019 Milton Mohr Fellowship recipients. The recognition event will align with the N-E Ride schedule. Light refreshments provided.
Please RSVP by April 24: https://go.unl.edu/zvyp
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The Mid-America Transportation Center is looking for UNL civil engineering undergrads for our annual summer internship program. Application deadline is April 14.
The MATC internships run from May 20 through Aug. 9. The MATC Internship Program partners with partners with private companies, local government, and academia to provide undergraduate students with paid summer internship opportunities in the field of engineering. During this 12-week program, students gain hands-on experience in their area of interest under the mentorship of a professional from organizations such as the Nebraska Department of Transportation, Iteris, Inc., Olsson, City of Lincoln Public Works and Utilities Department, City of Omaha, and Felsburg Holt & Ullevig. Students work 40 hours per week while experiencing the day-to-day tasks and responsibilities of their desired career. The program culminates in a written paper and presentation detailing the student’s internship experience.
Preferred applicants should have junior or senior standing (more than 50 credit hours as of May 2018), a 3.0 grade-point average or higher (strongly recommended), and are currently enrolled in a University of Nebraska- or MATC-affiliated institution.
Applications can be submitted at http://matc.unl.edu/internship/internship_student.php