Accomplishments: Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering

Rubaiya Murshed and Shubhra Bansal (both Mechanical Engineering) have published a journal paper on Perovskite photovoltaic material, "Additive-Assisted Optimization in Morphology and Optoelectronic Properties of Inorganic Mixed Sn-Pb Halide Perovskites." This paper was published in Materials in  January. Murshed is a doctoral student.
Jin Ouk Choi (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) was interviewed by Zena Ryder for the Modular Building Institute. Zena interviewed him about his work and research on modular construction, and his experience in and around the modular construction industry, which is published in the latest issue (March/April 2022) of…
Shashi Nambisan (Transportation Research Center and Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering and Construction), along with Andrew Bennett, director of the Clark County office of traffic safety, was featured on Vegas PBS's Nevada Week program (season 4, episode 32) that discussed speeding behaviors of motorists on roadways in Southern Nevada…
Taylor Finelli (Electrical and Computer Engineering) received the Fall 2021 Cover Artwork Award from Spectra Undergraduate Research Journal.  The office of undergraduate research solicits student submissions to have a student-designed cover for each spring and fall issue. The competitive award intends to foster student participation in the…
The College of Engineering Advising Center (Engineering), led by Chris Parker, was selected as the recipient of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) Region 9 Excellence in Advising - Advising Innovation Award, based on their classroom visits initiative. The team has been doing classroom visits over the past few years…
Hal Berghel (Computer Science) and Doug Jones (University of Iowa) wrote an article, "The State of the Art in Voting Machine Technology: Just How Reliable Are They?" which appears in the January issue of IEEE Computer.
Beiyu Lin (Computer Science) co-authored an article, "Early Forecasting of the Impact of Traffic Accidents Using a Single Shot Observation," which has been accepted to SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2022 (acceptance rate of about 27.8%). The paper was co-authored with Guangyu Meng (University of Notre Dame), Qisheng Jiang (…
Zakai J. Olsen, '16 BS, '18 MS, and '21 PhD Mechanical Engineering and Kwang J. Kim (Mechanical Engineering) are the authors of a new journal publication,  "Characterizing the Transduction Behavior of Ionic Polymer-metal Composite Actuators and Sensors via Dimensional Analysis," which was published in Smart Materials and…
Justin Neubauer and Kwang J. Kim (both Mechanical Engineering), along with Zakai J. Olsen, '16 BS, '18 MS, and '21 PhD Mechanical Engineering; Zachary Frank, '21 PhD Mechanical Engineering; and former post-doc Taeseon Hwang are the authors of a new journal publication,  "A Study of Mechanoelectrical Transduction Behavior in Polyvinyl Chloride…
Charlotta E. Sanders (Mechanical Engineering) and co-author Mark Sanders have published their manuscript “A world's dilemma ‘upon which the sun never sets’:  The nuclear waste management strategy (part IV): Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine, and United Arab Emirates” in the journal Progress in Nuclear Energy. The article is the fourth and…
Charlotta E. Sanders (Mechanical Engineering) and co-author Mark Sanders have published their manuscript “A world's dilemma ‘upon which the sun never sets’:  The nuclear waste management strategy (part IV): Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine, and United Arab Emirates” in the journal Progress in Nuclear Energy. The article is the fourth and…
Jin Ouk Choi (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) along with colleagues at the Iowa State University and the Australian National University published a special collection announcement paper, "Diversity and Inclusion in the Engineering-Construction Industry" in the Journal of Management in Engineering published by…