In The News...
Lincoln Journal Star - May 01, 2008
Lincoln Math Teacher Receives Presidential Award
Please join us in congratulating Jerel Welker, high school mathematics teacher at Southwest High School in Lincoln, Nebraska, recipient of the 2007 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Mr. Welker participated in the 2006 UNL Professional Development Science and Math Summer Technology Institute, co-sponsored by the Nebraska Transportation Center in the College of Engineering and the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools in the College of Education and Human Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Mr. Welker stated that he was able to incorporate information he received during the Summer Institute as part of his application for this award.
Omaha World Herald - March 30, 2005
Kiewit Lab\'s Task: Traffic Flow Alerts
Motorists could gain more street smarts from research at the Peter Kiewit Institute and funded by a $1.6 million grant. Beginning this summer, a lab focused on intelligent transportation systems will study how best to get to motorists the data collected by traffic detectors. The research could have such real-world implications as alerts about current conditions and forecasts for later conditions - all delivered directly to motorists in their cars or on their cell phones.
Nebraska Trucker - August ,
Pioneering New Frontiers In Highway Safety and Efficiency
This is a report on where your bumper
meets the barrier—how your tax dollars are
deployed to make real-life improvements for
your business through the Nebraska
Transportation Center at the University of
Nebraska College of Engineering.
Omaha World Herald - February 29, - Living
Youth Zone: Safer walk to school is grants\' goal
At Omaha's McMillan Magnet Center, it's common for eighth-graders to start thinking like civil engineers. Read the full story.
UNL Today - February 4, 2008
Celebration Announces National Academy of Sciences Grant for Bridge Research
University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering researchers aim to find ways to make the nation's bridges last longer and to design new ones that last a century or longer with funding from a new $2 million grant. Read the full story.
