T.J. Smull College of Engineering
Biggs Engineering Building
525 South Main St.
Ada, OH 45810
Phone: 419-772-2371
Email: engineering@onu.edu
Two Ohio Northern University civil engineering students were each awarded a $500 scholarship from the Toledo Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) on Monday, Nov. 5.Sarah Massella, a senior from Bridgeport, Pa., and Katherine Bowman, a junior from Richfield, Ohio, were the recipients of the award. The two students are members of the ONU chapter of the ASCE.ASCE’s Honors and Awards program recognizes the commendable achievements and remarkable accomplishments of the civil...
The Ohio Northern University College of Engineering’s real-life class, Engineering Projects In Community Service (EPICS), is working on three major projects throughout the area: building a replica of the Mars rover Curiosity for the Armstrong Air and Space Museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio; refurbishing a concrete base for historical Civil War cannons in Forest, Ohio; and upgrading the village of Ada’s website.Modeled after a similar program started by Purdue University in 1995, the ONU EPICS program...
Ken Reid, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, is coauthor of a paper that reports the initial results of teacher workshops offered for teachers in the Dominican Republic earlier this year.Reid coauthored the paper with Doug Gorham from the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). More than 100 teachers took part in the workshops held last May at schools run by Solid Rock International. The workshops drew on the expertise of Reid, Debra Gallagher,...
Dr. Srinivasa Vemuru, Ohio Northern University professor of electrical and computer engineering, was awarded a National Science Foundation Enhancing Access to the Radio Spectrum (EARS) grant to conduct a collaborative research project with the University of Akron, the University of Toledo and Norfolk State University.Titled “Enhancing Spectral Access via Directional Spectrum Sensing Employing 3-D Cone Filterbanks: Interdisciplinary Algorithms and Prototypes,” the grant totals $49,964.Vemuru...
The Ohio Northern University T.J. Smull College of Engineering will host a seminar, “Energy Economics – Keeping the Lights On,” at The Inn on the campus of ONU on Friday, Oct. 5, at 7:30 p.m.Jan Klaiss, a senior planning analyst at Consolidated Edison (ConEd) in New York City, will be the featured speaker. This event will concentrate on the economics of the energy industry and its impact on the field of engineering. Klaiss’ presentation will cover how energy economics has gone from focusing on...
Ken Reid, director of engineering education at Ohio Northern University, is one of 72 of the nation’s most innovative, young engineering educators selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) fourth Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) symposium to be held in Irvine, Calif., from Oct. 14-17.Faculty members who are developing and implementing innovative educational approaches in a variety of engineering disciplines will be part of the event, where they can share...
ONU’s education and engineering education programs participated in STEM in the Park on Saturday, Sep. 8 on the campus of Bowling Green University. Ken Reid, engineering, and Deb Gallagher, education, designed the activity and exhibit based on "Build a Rubber Band Racecar" from a website from the IEEE featuring low-cost engineering designs for the classroom. Students from elementary through high school were given a set of materials and a handout instructing them to build a car...
Dr. Ken Reid and Dr. Eric Baumgartner of the T. J. Smull College of Engineering have published a chapter in the book "Advancing the STEM Agenda: Quality Improvement Supports STEM." The chapter, titled "Toward a New Paradigm: A Bachelor of Science Degree with a Major in Engineering Education," describes Ohio Northern's B.S. in Engineering Education program, now entering it's second year. The book can be found online (ISBN: 978-0873898393) or on ASQ's website.
Dr. Ken Reid, program director of engineering education and director of first-year engineering, has published an article in the Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research. Reid's article, "Comparison of ‘Typical’ vs. Open Ended Ethics Case Studies in First-Year Engineering," focuses on the use of expanded case studies in the study of ethics in first-year engineering. The latest issue, Volume 13, Issue 4, is now available online.
Engineering’s programming environments course has a new component, thanks to a donation of 20 Texas Instruments Chronos watches, secured by the efforts of Dr. John K. Estell, professor of computer engineering and computer science.The Chronos looks like a sports watch, but is a highly integrated, wireless development system that provides a complete reference design for developers creating wireless smart watch applications. Chronos is a reference platform for many applications, such as wireless...
