ACHIEVEMENTS: Student teams win titles, faculty earn honors

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln quarter-scale tractor A Team took top honors at the International Quarter-Scale Tractor Student Design Competition held May 30-June 2 in Illinois. Team advisors are Roger Hoy, professor of biological systems engineering, and Joe Luck, associate professor of biological systems engineering.

https://engineering.unl.edu/husker-quarter-scale-tractor-team-wins-international-competition/

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For the second time in four years, graduate students in The Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction won the Grand Prize and $25,000 in the 2019 NCEES Engineering Education Award.

https://engineering.unl.edu/college-engineering-students-earn-second-ncees-engineering-education-grand-prize/PS:

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Qing Hui and graduate research assistant Qishuai Liu were finalists for the best paper at the 14th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics & Applications in Xian, China June 19-21. Their paper was titled “B-Splines-Based Fuzzy C-Means to Maximizing Overlap Areas for Interconnected Power Systems.”

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Yi Qian, professor of electrical and computer engineering, was recognized at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications in May in Shanghai, China, for being named an IEEE Fellow in late 2018. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Wireless.