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NIU Robotics Club
For the second time in as many years, the NIU Robotics Club engineered the “Most Innovative Design” at the annual AMD Jerry Sanders Creative Design Competition. “NAI” – its name originates from the acronym, Northern Autonomous Intelligence – is a 145-pound ground robot designed to navigate through a series of objective-based challenges. In March, students...
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While he hasn’t spent much time on a snowboard, Brianno Coller could appreciate better than most the complaints about the halfpipe at the Sochi Winter Olympics. The NIU professor of mechanical engineering is featured in a video produced by NBC Learn, which explains the engineering that goes into creating a world-class halfpipe. The video is...
NIU College of Engineering and Engineering Technology job fair (October 2012)
NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (CEET) will host engineering and technology companies from across the region from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.Thursday, Feb. 20, for a jobs and internships fair. Companies looking for full-time and internship positions should consider attending at the NIU Engineering Building on Garden Road. Each semester more than 300...
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NIU mechanical engineering professor Brianno Coller is featured in “Science and Engineering of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games,” a new 10-part video series. The series was created through the collaborative efforts of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and NBC Learn, the educational arm of NBC News. The videos are the latest installment in NSF’s and...
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NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology honored seven prestigious alumni and several scholarship recipients for the 2013-14 school year at the Scholarship and Award Banquet The banquet took place Thursday, Nov. 7, and featured a jazz band, appetizers and dinner, followed by speeches, presentations of the winners and dessert. Each department awarded a winner,...
Milivoje M. Kostic
NIU is looking to gain international students and encourage current students to study abroad to expand the university’s global influence and better prepare students for an international economy. For example, the university has “emerging and important partnerships” with China. “In the last two months, we have had delegations from potential Chinese partner universities visit us...
NIU Robotics Club
For an aspiring engineer, building a successful project is one of the greatest things in the world. Meeting a team of engineers who can teach, articulate and demonstrate how to be an engineer is a close second. Members of Fox Valley Robotics & Batavia Robotics got the best of both worlds when the NIU Robotics...
College of Engineering & Engineering Technology job fair
NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology will host a job fair from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, in Room 354 of the Engineering Building. The job fair is designed specifically around placing students interested in careers or internships in the engineering, technology or computer science fields, specifically with an interest in...
Pettee Guerrero
College is a defining moment in a person’s life, and many students feel scared about transferring to a four-year university after graduating from community college. The thoughts of not being able to to fit in or afford a college education cross our minds very often. I was one of those students. After I graduated from...
#WHYENGINEERING
Across the United States, engineering and manufacturing companies are struggling to find engineers to steer the country out of a recession. It is estimated that by 2018, the nation will have a shortfall of more than 250,000 engineers. At the same time, 16 of the top 20 growing occupations will require science, technology, engineering and...
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Being a leader is no easy task. Learning how to be an even better leader is even harder. But being around other leaders can help hone even the most polished leadership skills. NIU hosted the National Society for Black Engineers (NSBE) Region IV Leadership Conference from Aug. 23 to Aug. 25. Founded in 1975, NSBE...
NIU Engineers Without Borders in Africa
Engineers Without Borders is dedicated to bringing the classroom to other countries to design and build new projects that can help fix problems and build portfolios. Based in the NIU College of Engineering and Engineering Technology, this group of boundary-crossing individuals travel to remote places and help others to design projects which alleviate issues. Some...
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