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NIU Robotics Club
NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology soon will have a new robotics club. The first meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, in Room 253 (the Acoustics and Vibrations Lab) of the Engineering Building. Junior electrical engineering major Ryan Riddel hatched the concept for the club when he noticed that NIU did not...
Rich Harvest Farms
Two groups of NIU College of Engineering and Engineering Technology students partnered with Rich Harvest Farms as part of their senior design project. The task at hand: come up with a solution for the elite Sugar Grove golf course’s underground bunker rake system. Rich Harvest Farms is one of the few golf courses that utilize...
Theodore Hogan
Theodore Hogan, a professor of technology in the NIU College of Engineering & Engineering Technology, recently contributed a chapter to the sixth edition of a textbook titled “Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene.” Hogan has taught many courses on industrial hygiene; the editor of this textbook, Barbara Plog, was one of his first students in 1980. He...
Abul Azad
Abul Azad, a professor in the NIU Department of Technology, recently published a book titled “Internet Accessible Remote Laboratories: Scalable E-Learning Tools for Engineering and Science Disciplines.” The book is the result of collaboration between three academics from NIU and MIT, as well as Carinthia University of Applied Sciences in Austria. The book has five...
From left: Jes Cisneros, Promod Vohra, Nicholas Pohlman, Omar Ghrayeb and Chris Jones
NIU’s College of Engineering & Engineering Technology (CEET) and the University Honors Program teamed up to implement a new, customized honors program for engineering students. CEET faculty member Nick Pohlman set the idea in motion by securing a University Honors Summer Improvement Grant. “I originally applied for the grant because I was an honors student as...
Logo of the NIU Society of Women Engineers
Northern Illinois University’s Society of Women Engineers (NIU-SWE) received two awards from the Chicago Regional Section of SWE. NIU-SWE won two awards in the Small Section category. The first award was an honorable mention for the best collegiate section. The second was an award for the best collegiate website. NIU-SWE received $300 in cash in...
Rockford Area Economic Development Council logo
A Rockford education, industry and workforce development collaborative has submitted a proposal for a highly competitive $2.1 million federal Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge (JIAC) grant focusing on the regional advanced manufacturing cluster. This follows the collaborative’s successful proposal in 2011, which brought a $2.4 million grant to the area in support of the aerospace...
NIU’s Mini Baja team, which designs and builds off-road vehicles for competition, recently participated in a Society of Automotive Engineers event at the MGA research facility in Burlington, Wis. Competitions encourage intuitive design to win. Students must use a stock Briggs and Stratton 10-horsepower engine and follow the Mini Baja 71-page rule book. “From start...
CEET, Caterpillar partner for golf, scholarships
Eighty golfers scrambled to raise more than $18,000 for merit-based scholarships in the NIU College of Engineering andEngineering Technology during the second annual Tee Up Fore Scholarships event. Held June 19, the event is a result of collaboration between CEET and Caterpillar, Inc. One hundred percent of the profits go to scholarships. “As Aristotle said,...
Missy Gillis
Missy Gillis, director of external programming for NIU’s National Safety Education Center (NSEC), has clear goals for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration-certified training education center. “My main goals are to learn everything I needed to learn about the center. It was a bit of a learning curve starting this job, so I want to...
Junior Paul Hammerschmidt (Westerville, Ohio/Westerville Central) of the Northern Illinois men’s golf team was named to the Academic All-Mid-American Conference team announced on Wednesday by the league office. “We are very proud to see Paul receive another honor for his hard work on and off the golf course,” head coach Tom Porten said. “Paul has...
Battle Bots!
NIU’s Enhancing Engineering Pathways (NIU-EEP) aims to establish a sustainable pathway for girls into the field of engineering. To create and strengthen the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) pipeline, another year of NIU-EEP’s free summer camp will take place from June 11 through June 15. The application is available online. Launched in 2008, and...
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