Tag: College of Engineering & Engineering Technology
Another semester is coming to a close, and for students in the NIU College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (CEET), that means that Senior Design is right around the corner. Each semester, senior engineering and engineering technology students create capstone projects that are the culmination of everything they learned during their time at NIU. Students...
One year ago, as Sean Dwyer celebrated a few days off from his NIU classes during the Thanksgiving holiday, the first-year student in the College of Engineering & Engineering Technology got to work. It wasn’t finishing the leftover turkey, braving the Black Friday chaos or watching as much football as humanly possible. It was the...
The College of Engineering and Engineering Technology’s Corporate Scholars program gives companies the opportunity to have an impact on the NIU campus. Partnering corporations help prime NIU students to fill engineering positions as interns or full time positions after graduation. “The Corporate Scholars program is a wonderful opportunity to pair the best and brightest students...
NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology held its Scholarship Banquet & Alumni Awards event Nov. 1. Many scholarships and awards were presented to honor the outstanding achievements of each alumnus and the generosity of donors to the college. Awards were given on the college level and to alumni of the departments of Electrical Engineering,...
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...
