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Join NIU alumni and friends Thursday, April 28, to learn about renewable fuels and the viability of alternative energy sources. NIU alum Promod Vohra, dean of the NIU College of Engineering and Engineering Technology, and Gregg Hassler, vice president-finance for Waste Management, Inc., will share their views on ethanol, biodiesel, and other fuels for the future....

Engineering students from NIU have rolled out their design for a simple vehicle designed to improve the lives of people in some of the most remote and rugged areas of the world. The vehicle was unveiled April 16 at the 11th Annual Basic Utility Vehicle Competition, hosted by the Institute for Affordable Transportation in Indianapolis....

Engineering students from Northern Illinois University earlier this month rolled out their design for a simple vehicle designed to improve the lives of people in some of the most remote and rugged areas of the world. The vehicle was unveiled Saturday, April 16, at the 11th Annual Basic Utility Vehicle Competition hosted by the Institute...

Abhijit Gupta, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology, will receive the Monroe Seligman Award from the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology. The award recognizes Gupta’s contributions to the institute in the area of vibration testing as a tutorial instructor, mentor to many engineers and an ambassador...

An NIU engineering student shows off his vehicle April 6 during the Society of Automotive Engineers visit. NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (CEET) played host Wednesday, April 6, to the Chicago and Rockford/Beloit sections of SAE, the Society of Automotive Engineers. “Staying closely connected to business and industry in the region and across the...

Three NIU officials headed for warmer climes in Malaysia during the university’s recent spring break, but the trip wasn’t about rest and relaxation. The trio instead visited the campuses of Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP), one of NIU’s partner universities in Malaysia, to discuss development of three undergraduate programs in engineering technology. The NIU delegation included Deborah Pierce,...

NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology had a busy week.  In celebration of national Engineers Week, CEET organized a series of events that brought 200 middle and high school students from 10 schools in the northern Illinois region and included a trivia competition and banquet for CEET students.  The halls of the Engineering Building were...

When Dean Romualdas Kasuba helped design the current home of the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology at NIU, the plans for the building (which opened in 1995) did not incorporate putting his name over the door of the building’s main auditorium. That detail was taken care of Tuesday, Feb. 8, as the current leadership...

Abhijit Gupta, candidates for dean of the NIU Graduate School and associate vice president for graduate studies, will hold a series of open forums Thursday, Feb. 24, and Friday, Feb. 25. His original interviews were postponed last week by the university-closing blizzard.  Gupta is professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the NIU College...

On the heels of a record-breaking 2010 Northern Illinois football season on the field, a record-tying five Northern Illinois football student-athletes have been named to the Mid-American Conference’s Academic All-MAC football squad as selected by the league’s faculty representatives. Northern Illinois and Western Michigan led all MAC schools with five selections each to the 29-man...

Darrell E. “Doc” Newell, who joined the NIU Industry and Technology Department in the fall of 1967 and retired from the NIU College of Engineering and Engineering Technology in the spring of 1990, died Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010, in DeKalb. He was 84. Before his retirement, Newell served as chair of electrical engineering and as interim associate dean...

Students from NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology presented projects to college faculty and Caterpillar executives at an Oct. 25 event. The event is part of an ongoing partnership between CEET and Caterpillar, which this past year has employed nearly 40 NIU engineering students at various the manufacturing divisions to help improve the efficiency...