Tag: College of Engineering and Engineering Technology
Four members of the Northern Illinois Huskie football team have been named to the Capital One Academic All-District V first team in voting by the College Sports Information Directors of America and will advance to the Capital One Academic All-America ballot for 2012. Defensive end Alan Baxter (Buffalo Grove, Ill./Buffalo Grove HS), noseguard Nabal Jefferson...
Attention health care professionals: NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (CEET) will offer two courses for safety and health in work environments. Classes will provide information about OSHA requirements and procedures for controlling exposure of blood-borne pathogens on health care facilities and ergonomic guidelines training for nursing homes. Courses will be offered Monday, Dec....
NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology is getting a cutting-edge robotics and mechatronics lab with the help of corporate sponsor OMRON Global. OMRON Global is an international company that focuses on a wide variety of manufacturing automation products, producing motors, sensors, safety equipment and more. The company has proven quite successful, and leaders have...
NIU will host “Interdisciplinarity: How Can This Approach Help Resolve the Most Complex Health Care Issues of Our Time?” from 8:30 to 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29, at NIU-Naperville. This groundbreaking workshop is being jointly designed and implemented by the NIU colleges of Business, Engineering and Engineering Technology, Health and Human Sciences and Law to...
The NIU Clean Snowmobile Team is back in action this year with the hopes of creating two new vehicles for competition next March in Houghton, Mich. The team is working on a 2007 Yamaha Phazer as well as a 2011 Polaris Rush. The Polaris Rush was donated by Polaris to the team this year for...
October is career fair season at NIU. With many companies coming to campus to network with students, this is an ideal time to think about life post-graduation. NIU’s College of Engineering & Engineering Technology (CEET) hosts its own job fair each year, catering to the career and internship needs of CEET students. This year, computer...
NIU mechanical engineering professor Federico Sciammarella was chosen as technical chair for the upcoming 2012 Rapid Product Development Association of South Africa (RAPDASA) international conference. The conference takes place Wednesday, Oct. 31, through Friday, Nov. 2, According to its website, “RAPDASA embraces the complete product development value chain … RAPDASA aims to become a government-recognized...
Northern Illinois tight end Jason Schepler (Sycamore, Ill./Sycamore HS) has been named one of 30 candidates for the 2012 Senior CLASS Award for Football, which is presented annually to an NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision senior who excels in four areas of excellence: community, classroom, character and competition. Schepler is the only Mid-American Conference representative, and...
Northern Illinois University has been named to the list of Best National Universities as a first tier institution, ranked No. 189 by U.S. News and World Report. Last year, NIU was ranked 194 in this same category. “This is very good news,” said Raymond Alden, executive vice president and provost. “It affirms the excellence in...
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...
Northern Illinois University announced its fall 2012 new freshman enrollment is up 2.9 percent to 2,664 following the first 10 days of classes, according to NIU’s Office of Institutional Research. The strength of the university’s incoming freshman class is reflected not only in its numbers, but also grade point average and class rank. The percentage...
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...