UNL CIVE Graduate Students Association

Please join the CEE GSA for our annual picnic on Friday October 16th at 4 PM. All CEE faculty, staff, graduate students, and their families on both campuses are invited to attend. You must RSVP by Monday October 12th if you plan on attending.

🌟Student Spotlight🌟 New graduate student, Brendan Bunker, took a visit to the Loup Central Landfill today. His project aims to install a device that will treat odors with a bio-trickling filter.

We’re excited to welcome the new graduate students to the CEE department! There will be a new graduate student orientation held next Friday September 18th at 12 pm. This event is open to all CEE graduate students. We look forward to meeting you!

Group meeting zoom style was a success! The CEE GSA is excited for the upcoming academic year!
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Congrats to some of our newly elected officers! Sussan Moussavi, a PhD student focused in Environmental Engineering, will serve as President. Katie Mowat, an MS student focused in Environmental Engineering, will serve as Vice President. Khalid Alkady, a PhD student focused in Structural Engineering, will serve as Primary Programmer.

🌟Student Spotlight🌟 Current CEE Master’s students, Gabe and Andrew, spent part of spring break collecting data at the Loup City Landfill. The project they are working on aims to create a pilot bio-trickling filter to concentrate and treat hydrogen sulfide from landfill gas emissions.

Please join us for an FE/PE Exam Workshop open to ALL engineering disciplines! The workshop will be held Tuesday March 17th at 5:00 pm in SEC 318. FOOD IS PROVIDED! This workshop will be lead by Jon Wilbeck, who is the Executive Director for the Nebraska Board of Engineers and Architects. Please RSVP using the QR code or the link provided.

⭐️Student Spotlight⭐️ Francisco is a 2nd year Master’s student focusing in Structural Engineering. His research objective is to produce a tool that can predict load ratings based on finite element modeling. He recently presented his work to academics, agency leaders, policy-makers, and private consultants at the 99th Annual Transportation Research Board meeting in Washington D.C. Francisco used this opportunity to practice his presentation skills, as well as to learn about innovative advancements related to bridge engineering. Francisco will defend his thesis this spring and has accepted a job offer as a bridge engineer at HDR in Omaha. Congrats Cisco!

Noelle, one of our current PhD students focusing in Environmental Engineering, spent last weekend at the annual Women Empowered in STEM conference hosted by the Society of Women Engineers. Her favorite parts of the conference were listening to a range of topics covered by diverse speakers, as well as making new connections. She even had a chance to reconnect with UNL CEE alumni, Shaobin Li, who is currently a postdoc at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign! @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Mitham is a current Master’s student studying Environmental Engineering. His research focuses on the biofiltration of volatile organic compounds emitted from ethanol plants. In this picture, Mitham is collecting samples from the ethanol plant to take back to the lab to analyze the concentrations of various hazardous air pollutants. In his free time, Mitham enjoys soccer, working out, and reading.

Have you ever needed a small missing piece for your experimental setup that is not commercially available and you thought about building it on your own?
Did you know that there is a place full of tools and equipment, FREE for all UNL students and faculty, that you can create and build all sorts of unique projects?
If you did not know, now you know!
It is called “Nebraska Innovation Studio” and here is their website:
https://innovationstudio.unl.edu/

Go check it out! It might save you a lot of money. @ Nebraska Innovation Studio