Tag: U.S. Department of Commerce
Have an idea for a short-term project with the potential to improve the state of manufacturing in Illinois? NIU’s Division of Research and Graduate Studies invites faculty and staff to submit such proposals to the Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center (IMEC), which since 1996 has helped more than 2,500 Illinois manufacturing companies to achieve more than...
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that NIU will receive $2.4 million to develop tools for process control and qualifying parts made with layer-by-layer additive-manufacturing processes. Benefits of additive manufacturing include producing goods quickly and on-demand, with greater customization and complexity and less material waste. “It is...
Happy New Year, and welcome back to campus. This should prove to be a very interesting year at both the state and federal levels. In Washington, D.C. … Congress has been on holiday recess since mid-December, returning to session this week. Congress did approve the remaining FY2012 appropriations bills Dec. 15, 2011, which comply with the...
NIU will be represented among officials from 56 colleges who will travel to Indonesia and Vietnam this weekend on an educational trade mission with Francisco J. Sánchez, the U.S. undersecretary of commerce for international trade. NIU will treat the trip as a fact-finding mission for potential students and educators. Students from Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi...