NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (CEET) congratulates five teams that were presented with awards from the Engineering and Technology Alumni Society on Senior
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Space Grants Set Trajectory of Students’ Learning Experiences
NIU students will have the chance to have some out of this world experiences this academic year, thanks to two professors from NIU’s College of
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Senior Design Stories: Robotic Guiding Device for the Blind
It’s estimated by the Centers for Disease Control that more than 3.4 million Americans over the age of 40 are either legally blind or visually
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NASA Scholarship Winners
Congratulations to three CEET students who each won a $3,000 Illinois Space Grant Consortium (ISGC) scholarship. The ISGC scholarship supports “outstanding undergraduate students pursuing aerospace,
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Engineering Technology’s Welding Lab
The Welding Laboratory (part of Manufacturing Laboratory) in the Department of Engineering Technology is the one and only welding Laboratory on NIU campus. It is
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Senior Design Stories: Increasing Warehouse Efficiencies
During the last 16 years, SD Wheel Corp. has experienced exponential growth within their market of matching car and truck enthusiasts with wheel and tire
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Senior Design Team 14 partnered with sponsor The Morton Arboretum in the 2020 Senior Design Program to devise a way to more efficiently monitor the
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Solar Car Competition
Students from Belvidere High School in Belvidere, Ill. and Hiawatha High School in Kirkland, Ill., participated in a solar-powered car competition at Anderson Hall on
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Therapy device designed by all-female team of engineers presented at annual meeting
UPDATE 10/21: An all-female team of engineers presented the abstract of their occupational therapy device at the national Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) annual meeting in
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Student Designs Solar Phone Charger
Mechatronics Engineering student Di’Quan Ishmon has solved the problem every person with a mobile device faces: a dead battery. UPDATE: His invention was the runner
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