The state Board of Regents approved 58 faculty promotions and tenure applications for the 2016-17 year during its April 21 meeting in Council Bluffs. The full list of faculty can be found here. The new titles and promotions take effect in July for A-base (12-month) faculty and in August for B-base faculty.
Nine College of Engineering faculty received promotion and tenure for 2016-17.
| Promotion to Professor (Already Tenured) | |
| Song-Charng Kong | Mechanical Engineering |
| Srikanta Tirthapura | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Namrata Vaswani | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Eliot Winer | Mechanical Engineering |
| Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure | |
| Jeramy Ashlock | Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering |
| Guiping Hu | Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering |
| Phillip Jones | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Simon Laflamme | Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering |
| Ian Schneider | Chemical and Biological Engineering |