IRF Essay Student Winner - Jeff Thiele

Congratulations to Civil Engineering graduate student Jeff Thiele, one of the five winners of the International Road Federation’s annual student essay competition. An international panel of judges graded essays submitted under five separate categories. Jeff Thiele’s essay won the “Innovative Financing” category.

2009 MATC Professional Development Science and Math Summer Technology Institute

From June 17-19 and July 15-17, 2009, eighteen high and middle school teachers, as well as twenty-two of their students, participated in the fourth Professional Development Science and Math Summer Technology Institute at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The summer institute, which is sponsored by the Nebraska Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education and by the U.S. Department of Transportation, is intended to develop the skills of teachers in the use of engineering resources available through the UNL Engineering Department, and to increase the interest of high and middle school students in the fields of science, technology, math, and engineering through exposure to real-life transportation problems.

MATC Welcomes 2009 UNL Summer Interns

On May 15th, 2009, the fifteen undergraduate students selected to participate in the UNL MATC Summer Intern Program this summer met with their sponsors and the faculty coordinators at an orientation luncheon on UNL's campus. The popular internship program, which runs from May 18 through August 14, allows students to gain practical engineering experience by working for transportation firms and agencies primarily located in the Midwest.