Football interview vs. Minnesota

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Ronnie Green talks about Nebraska Engineering doing research on behalf of the U.S. Navy, innovating to develop a process to repair ships without having to return to a shipyard.

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[00:00:00.239](cowbell beats)
[00:00:02.180](upbeat music)
[00:00:03.013]Welcome back.
[00:00:03.846]Countdown to Kickoff here on the Husker Sports Network.
[00:00:05.500]Nebraska and Minnesota tonight at 6:35
[00:00:08.670]from TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
[00:00:11.490]Every week on Countdown to Kickoff
[00:00:13.580]we get a chance to sit down
[00:00:14.600]with University of Nebraska Lincoln Chancellor Ronnie Green.
[00:00:17.070]I was excited about coming up here October 12th,
[00:00:19.230]and I thought, "We're gonna beat winter.
[00:00:20.837]"It's gonna be nice."
[00:00:21.670]And it's a little chilly out there today.
[00:00:23.744]Oh, it's a little cool,
[00:00:25.531]little bit of white stuff in the air last night and today,
[00:00:28.720]but not too bad.
[00:00:29.553]Not too bad. I mean, it's,
[00:00:30.840]I remember two years ago when we were here in Minneapolis,
[00:00:34.890]and it was kind of cold if I remember right.
[00:00:36.730]It's a little later in the season, I think,
[00:00:38.170]than tonight, but it'll be a good game.
[00:00:41.407]I hope all of our farming friends back in Nebraska
[00:00:44.020]can get out in the fields this week.
[00:00:45.220]Got some dryer conditions coming up.
[00:00:46.750]I know those guys are anxious to put it to,
[00:00:48.880]put it in the barn. They sure are.
[00:00:51.620]You know, we had a late spring getting crops in the ground,
[00:00:54.810]and I know they're wanting to get out of the field
[00:00:58.387]before too late this year, too.
[00:01:00.290]So hoping for good weather.
[00:01:01.810]Yeah, no doubt.
[00:01:02.643]Well, Nebraska's well known for our student athletes.
[00:01:05.530]We're gonna be watching some of them compete here tonight.
[00:01:07.810]They do such a great job on our playing fields and surfaces,
[00:01:11.070]but they're also really talented
[00:01:12.840]in the classroom and the community.
[00:01:14.250]We recently learned that a Nebraska student athlete
[00:01:16.715]is a finalist, yes, a finalist
[00:01:19.230]for the NCAA Women of the Year.
[00:01:21.460]Tell us about who this is and what an honor this is.
[00:01:24.500]Well, you know, Greg, we have a long tradition
[00:01:26.940]at the University of Nebraska of excelling
[00:01:29.420]in academics and athletics,
[00:01:31.170]and very special honor this year for Angela Mercurio,
[00:01:36.960]who is one of our triple jumpers, long jumpers,
[00:01:40.270]from our track and field team.
[00:01:42.050]Outstanding student who graduated this past year,
[00:01:45.300]and she's one of nine finalists for
[00:01:47.920]the NCAA Woman of the Year award for 2019,
[00:01:51.300]which is big deal.
[00:01:53.340]We've only had one student from, from a Big Ten school
[00:01:58.130]who has ever been chosen for the award,
[00:02:01.100]and that student was from Nebraska.
[00:02:03.420]Was a volleyball student standout, Billie Winsett-Fletcher,
[00:02:06.730]in 1996 received the award.
[00:02:09.193]Angela, you know, is also an outstanding student.
[00:02:13.560]She graduated with a near perfect 4.0 grade average
[00:02:17.560]in biochemistry and women's and gender studies
[00:02:20.450]this past year.
[00:02:21.300]She's going on to medical school to further her career
[00:02:26.350]now that she's completed her eligibility.
[00:02:28.450]Just an outstanding student,
[00:02:30.530]and hoping for the best for her
[00:02:32.010]as one of those finalists to bring that award home.
[00:02:35.450]Fantastic.
[00:02:36.283]Thank you.
[00:02:37.116]Congratulations and thank you
[00:02:37.949]for bringing her to our attention.
[00:02:40.100]Few weeks ago you let us in on the big announcement
[00:02:42.470]as it relates to Nebraska Engineering
[00:02:44.570]with the partnership with Kiewit and some others
[00:02:46.524]who are gonna help you really spur on that college.
[00:02:49.872]You had some engineering news that may sound surprising.
[00:02:53.240]Nebraska Engineering is doing some research
[00:02:55.060]that could help out the US Navy.
[00:02:57.420]What does that involve?
[00:02:59.070]Well, you know, our College of Engineering
[00:03:01.240]covers a lot of areas
[00:03:03.240]all across civil engineering, electrical engineering,
[00:03:05.530]chemical engineering, Ag engineering,
[00:03:08.390]architectural engineering, construction management.
[00:03:11.500]But one of the areas you don't necessarily think
[00:03:13.750]about Nebraska working in is the Navy
[00:03:17.190]and working with ships
[00:03:19.420]and maintaining ships
[00:03:21.290]in our defense force in the US Navy.
[00:03:24.310]And we currently are doing a big project
[00:03:27.640]with the US Navy's Office of Naval Research
[00:03:30.247]where they have turned to us for help
[00:03:32.800]on doing what we call Shipyard on a Ship
[00:03:36.098]where we have ships that are deployed
[00:03:39.670]that have aluminum sides
[00:03:42.410]and, as those aluminum sides corrode,
[00:03:44.540]usually the only way that a ship can be fixed is used,
[00:03:48.900]has the need for that maintenance is to put them in dock
[00:03:51.980]and put them in shipyard
[00:03:53.380]to fix the corrosion that occurs over time.
[00:03:57.790]You know, exposure to saltwater and sea and sun's
[00:04:00.630]gonna do that on aluminum, so we have developed
[00:04:05.170]a process in the College of Engineering
[00:04:08.000]in the electrical engineering department.
[00:04:09.880]Yongfeng Lu, who is a professor of electrical
[00:04:12.490]and computer engineering,
[00:04:13.523]has been working in this area for a number of years.
[00:04:17.030]He's developed a laser system that prevents
[00:04:19.850]and repairs corrosion on these aluminum-sided ships.
[00:04:23.710]Small, it's lightweight.
[00:04:25.930]Enables crews to make on-the-spot repairs
[00:04:28.450]that address that corrosion
[00:04:29.900]so they don't have to waste the time
[00:04:32.090]and the dollars to be in a shipyard.
[00:04:33.860]You can just kind of do it in real time, if you will.
[00:04:37.090]And they're now testing that operationally
[00:04:39.759]on Navy ships in the defense force.
[00:04:42.770]So a big deal with Nebraska Engineering.
[00:04:46.800]It has the potential to save the department
[00:04:49.110]of the Navy millions of dollars,
[00:04:51.204]so it's science and improvements
[00:04:53.160]from our college that's making a big difference.
[00:04:54.980]No doubt.
[00:04:55.813]Sounds pretty futuristic,
[00:04:57.200]and I guess that how research works, right?
[00:04:59.000]You have faculty members who are trying
[00:05:01.670]to keep an eye on what's the next big thing.
[00:05:04.491]That's right.
[00:05:05.540]I call it research that matters.
[00:05:06.849]You know, we do a lot
[00:05:07.682]of research that matters at the University of Nebraska.
[00:05:10.910]You know, when the team, in this case,
[00:05:13.360]began the research for the current prototype
[00:05:16.480]that they're working, the lasers that they needed
[00:05:18.960]to actually do this weren't even commercially available.
[00:05:21.880]They had to develop that technology,
[00:05:24.130]but they continued to develop it,
[00:05:25.740]developed the underlying engineering principles
[00:05:27.940]or their solution, because they were confident
[00:05:30.170]that that laser technology would develop in a way
[00:05:33.080]that would be able to make it, make it work.
[00:05:35.290]So it allowed them to kind of
[00:05:36.300]stay on the edge of innovation.
[00:05:38.300]Then they were fortunate to be asked
[00:05:41.300]by the Navy to work on this area.
[00:05:43.762]They also, of course,
[00:05:45.857]are using a lot of students in that work.
[00:05:48.660]The lab hosts two or three high school interns each year,
[00:05:51.560]a number of graduate students who work in Yongfeng's group.
[00:05:54.780]He's a, he's quite a workhorse, I can tell ya.
[00:05:57.160]I guess. I know him well,
[00:05:58.734]and very proud of the work that they're doing to help
[00:06:02.440]our Navy and our defense force
[00:06:05.640]that's deployed out across the world.
[00:06:07.070]Fantastic.
[00:06:07.903]Something all Nebraskans can be proud of,
[00:06:09.640]that that type of work is going on
[00:06:10.659]at the University of Nebraska.
[00:06:12.577]Well, stay bundled up.
[00:06:14.240]Let's see if we can get this one
[00:06:15.340]in the win column here tonight.
[00:06:16.450]Little more snow coming down,
[00:06:17.301]look out the window here, you know.
[00:06:18.733]I just, while you were talking I was looking out,
[00:06:20.820]saw the snowflakes back here.
[00:06:22.260]Well, we're looking forward to a good game.
[00:06:23.870]Go Big Red.
[00:06:24.703]Ronnie Green with us here on Countdown to Kickoff.
[00:06:26.900]We've got some few more thoughts ahead
[00:06:28.470]from TCF Bank Stadium.
[00:06:29.588]We'll do that next.

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