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frOM THE DEAN > To engineer is ingenious
Perhaps you didn’t know, but the word “engineer” comes from the Latin “ingenium”: to create.
We at Nebraska Engineering believe very strongly that this is our main challenge in educating the
engineers of tomorrow.
Just to illustrate this point, I’d like to talk to you today about our Power of Red flag. This shows the
process whereby ideas for tomorrow are generated in our college.
Four years ago while on a trip to Brazil, I attended a soccer game. After each side scored, fans in the
stands opened up enormous flags—the likes of which I’d never seen before. My immediate reaction
was, “Why don’t we have this at NU?”
Well, it took a couple of years, and a lot of efforts by a lot of people, but we succeeded at getting our
flag made. For the past two years, our students have been waving it at opening ceremonies during
Husker football home games.
This simple example is intended to let you know—we are not sitting still. We are creating ideas, every
day, and those ideas have a mission: to make the Nebraska (and the world) of tomorrow a better
place.
From small things that appear big like our
Power of Red flag, to really, really big things
that appear small—like the new nanofiber
developments of Dr. Yuris Dzenis, R.
Vernon McBroom Professor of Engineering
Mechanics—we are creating the advances of
tomorrow.
We invite you to join us in this exciting
time for the College of Engineering at the
University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
–David H. Allen