Midwest Roadside Safety Facility (MwRSF)

We were thrilled to host a great group of engineering freshman!

If you're on the hunt for a role that makes a difference, join us here at MwRSF as our next Assistant Director of Business Operations! This is a critical leadership position that keeps our operation running smoothly and enables life-saving research. See the details and apply: https://lnkd.in/g9gzt2uX #MwRSF #hiring #roadsafety #business #research #UNL

Had a great time hosting freshman engineering students at the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility (MwRSF) last week! Roughly 100 students joined us as part of their freshman seminar for exposure to different majors and groups within the UNL College of Engineering. Thank you to the UNL Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for helping to organize the event, and thank you to all of the students who came to hang out!

Need vehicle parts? Want to own a piece of history from a past MwRSF crash test? Now's your chance! After all crash test data has been collected, our vehicles go to public auction for scrap, parts, a hobby rebuild, or anything else. Bidding starts now! Check out the available lots: https://lnkd.in/gHJZCwQq. Bidding closes November 12.

Join us on Friday for a seminar led by MwRSF collaborator Dr. Mehmet Can Vuran, focusing on vehicle-to-barrier and high speed communications, a critical research area related to autonomous vehicles.

Of eleven new College of Engineering faculty, TWO new Research Assistant Professors joined MwRSF this year! Drs. Tewodros Yosef and Andrew Loken have kept busy with securing new research grants, publishing research papers, and presenting at the 2nd International Roadside Safety Conference. Keep up the good work, guys!

Congratulations to MwRSF collaborator Dr. Seunghee Kim on being named the Charles J. Vranek Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering! An endowed professorship is the highest academic honor the college can bestow. We're so glad to see you recognized!

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Midwest Roadside Safety Facility conducted groundbreaking electric vehicle crash tests, which were highlighted in a CBS News feature.

#NSRIFellow Dr. Cody Stolle appeared on CBS News to discuss research from the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility (MwRSF) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Via the article: Researchers at the University of Nebraska are testing how U.S. infrastructure matches up to EVs. They crashed a 7,000-pound electric pickup — weighing 2,000 pounds more than a gas-powered pickup — at 62 mph into concrete barriers commonly used as freeway medians. The barriers contained the collision, but chunks of concrete were sent flying, and several of the 5,000-pound barriers were pushed back 10 feet — 50% more than normal. "Unfortunately, these guardrail systems, which have performed very well with gasoline vehicles historically, do not appear to be containing electric vehicles when impacting the similar types of conditions," said Cody Stolle, a University of Nebraska associate professor who has been studying the issue. Nebraska Republican U.S. Senator Deb Fischer Fischer said there has to be a greater awareness regarding the current standards for guardrails and barriers to encourage further research. "It was eye-opening. There was a lot of damage. And again, if there would've been vehicles on the other side of that barrier, we would've seen a severe accident," said Fischer. Read the full article at https://lnkd.in/g9YWZ7JA. #UNL #UNLresearch #electricvehicles #EVs #roadsafety #highwaysafety #homelandsecurity #Nebraska

🎥 CBS Mornings featured MwRSF's electric vehicle (EV) research and sat down with Dr. Cody Stolle to discuss: check it out! "The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that half of all new car sales will be EVs by 2032, leaving limited time to address these concerns and upgrade roadside safety barriers." read the article here: https://lnkd.in/g9YWZ7JA #electricvehicles #UNL #MwRSF #engineering #research #transportation #roadsafety