T.J. Smull College of Engineering
Biggs Engineering Building
525 South Main St.
Ada, OH 45810
Phone: 419-772-2371
Email: engineering@onu.edu
Ohio Northern University is holding a wind turbine celebration on Friday, May 21, at 1 p.m.
The event will take place at the base of the newly constructed trio of wind turbines off Klingler Road. This project is one of the largest on-site wind electricity projects in the country and the largest in the state of Ohio.
Dr. Kendall L. Baker, Ohio Northern president, Robert Smith, president of the ONU Board of Trustees, and Dave Retterer, mayor of Ada, will speak at the event.
Matt Pierce, a senior...
Dr. Khalid S. Al-Olimat, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Ohio Northern University, is part of a nationwide consortium from 65 universities cooperating as part of a $2.5 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to be awarded to the University of Minnesota.
The grant is part of a larger initiative to revitalize electrical power engineering education. Al-Olimat is leading ONU’s participation in the project. Over a three-year period, ONU will receive $25,000, which will...
Student teams from Ohio Northern University’s T.J. Smull College of Engineering garnered 15th- and 22nd-place finishes at the 2010 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Aero Design competition in Fort Worth, Texas.
Forty-seven teams from Canada, Brazil, Poland and the United States participated in this year’s event.
The goal of the annual competition is to design, build and fly a radio-controlled airplane that carries the maximum payload weight possible in a controlled flight manner. The...
A team of students from Ohio Northern University’s James F. Dicke College of Business Administration and T.J. Smull College of Engineering won the 2010 Illinois Institute of Technology’s Innovation Chase on Friday, April 3.The competition focused on a product-development problem. Teams prepared project plans, idea pitches, ethnographic studies and prototypes before making a final team presentation. Each winning team member was awarded $500.ONU defeated teams from the University of Illinois-...
Ohio Northern engineering students placed first among 13 universities at the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Region 2 Micromouse Competition held at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa.
The competition is a challenging and popular robotics competition. Teams construct an autonomous robotic "mouse" that navigates to the center of a random maze from a specified corner in the shortest amount of time possible.
Members of the ONU micromouse team are Allan Hall, a senior in...
Ohio Northern University celebrates its 38th annual Honors Day program on May 8. Honors Day recognizes ONU students and faculty members for their distinguished scholarly achievement and service to the University community. Honors Day has a rich tradition of ONU departments and colleges recognizing students for their academic achievements. Honors Day begins at 8:15 a.m. and runs until 5 p.m. More than 40 undergraduate academic departments and honor societies will present awards and induct new...
More than 70 Ohio Northern University students will participate in Ohio Northern’s fifth annual Student Research Colloquium in McIntosh Center on Saturday, May 1, beginning at 10 a.m.The Student Research Colloquium celebrates academic achievement among Northern students of all disciplines by providing them the opportunity to present and discuss the results of their research to their fellow students, faculty and visitors to ONU’s campus.Dr. Catherine Albrecht, dean of the College of Arts &...
Dr. John K. Estell, professor of computer science and computer engineering and chair of the ECCS department, was an invited presenter at the 2010 ABET Symposium held April 15-17 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
His talk, titled “A Heuristic Approach to Assessing Program Outcomes Using Performance Vectors,” presented a methodology for systematically transforming the data collected from direct classroom assessment activities into succinct vectors that categorize aggregate student performance, which is then...
Dr. Ahmed Abdel-Mohti, assistant professor of civil engineering, has received a National Science Foundation grant to attend the U.S. and Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering.
The ninth U.S. National and Tenth Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering will be July 25-29 in Toronto, Canada. This conference brings together researchers and practitioners to share the latest knowledge and techniques for understanding and mitigating the effects of earthquakes.
The conference is jointly...
Six civil engineering students, all juniors in the Prof. Mohammad Khasawneh’s Transportation II class, have been named recipients of Hot Mix Asphalt Scholarships. Prof. Khasawneh is an assistant professor of Civil Engineering in the Smull College of Engineering at Ohio Northern University.They are Ryan P. Athy from Shelby, Ohio, Korey C. Sarven from Lima, Ohio, Shane R. Huntley from Sandusky, Ohio, Drew D. Richards from New Washington, Ohio, Jonathan J. Mihoci from Jefferson, Ohio, and...
