T.J. Smull College of Engineering
Biggs Engineering Building
525 South Main St.
Ada, OH 45810
Phone: 419-772-2371
Email: engineering@onu.edu
Eight Ohio Northern University students, a male and female from each class, were honored with awards at the annual President's Leadership Dessert, held April 30.
Special guest speaker for the event was Ohio State University Head Football Coach Jim Tressel.
Receiving the DeBow Freed Awards for Outstanding Leadership as freshmen were Bethany Schreck, an art major from Bethel Park, Pa., and Ryan Lowry, a business administration major from Bluffton, Ohio.
Sophomore winners were Natalyn...
A team of Ohio Northern University mechanical engineering seniors competed in the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Aero Design East competition April 18-20 in Marietta, Ga. The goal of this competition was to design, construct and fly a radio-controlled model aircraft that met specifications and could carry as much weight as possible.
The ONU team placed 15th overall among 39 teams in their class. They received a third-place award in the written report category. The team's airplane...
The Ohio Northern University chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) recently received the 2008 Region 3 Governor's Award.
The Governor's Award recognizes the ONU chapter of ASCE as a leading student chapter in the region, taking into consideration student activities, professional development and community outreach. This is the second consecutive year that the ONU chapter has received this award.
Region 3 of the ASCE consists of college and university chapters from...
Ohio Northern University student Ryan J. Mahle, a senior engineering major from Kettering, Ohio, was the recipient of the 2007 Robert O'Shea Engineering Ethics Award for Ohio American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) and Younger Members.
Mahle garnered the honor after his paper "Eminent Domain and the Engineer's Ethical Responsibilities" was named the top submission by a panel of engineers.
In winning the award, Mahle, a member and past president of the ASCE student...
Dr. Bruce Berdanier, associate professor of civil engineering at Ohio Northern University, has been awarded a planning grant in the amount of $29,664 from the National Science Foundation.
ONU is the lead institution of an international consortium of professors in mainstream universities in the United States, Mongolia and Jordan, as well as Tribal Colleges and Universities, known as the International Assessment Containment and Treatment Group (ACT Intl.). The focus of ACT Intl. is to promote...
The Ohio Northern University T.J. Smull College of Engineering, in conjunction with Rhodes State College, American Trim and the city of Lima, have announced their submission of a $3 million grant proposal to the state of Ohio's Third Frontier Project to establish a Materials Deposition Center (MDC). Rhodes State College is serving as the lead organization for the grant proposal and has been successful in prior collaborative efforts in bringing Third Frontier resources to the community....
Dr. Joseph Hager, director for technology transfer programs at the Edison Materials Technology Center (EMTEC), will speak on "Energy Technology Alternatives in Changing Times" as part of the Ohio Northern University's Spotts Lecture Series in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 26.
The event is free and open to the public.
Hager will review current energy issues and will focus on the types of alternative energy technologies that may become...
The Ohio Northern University estimating team earned a first-place finish at the eighth annual Ohio Contractors Association (OCA) Estimating Competition held in Columbus on Feb. 15 and 16. For its first-ever first-place finish, the Northern team was awarded $2,000.
"This is a very cool outcome," said Dr. Bruce Berdanier, associate professor of civil engineering, who served as the team's faculty advisor. "Especially when you consider the nature of our degree program in...
Ohio Northern University and the city of Lima have formed a partnership to build and operate a research and development center in Lima. The center will be located on a site that is being developed through a grant Lima received from the Ohio Job Ready Sites Program.
ONU President Kendall L. Baker, Ph.D., said this agreement is a great opportunity to showcase the University's regionally and nationally respected T.J. Smull College of Engineering. "The new center provides our students and...
Twenty-three high schools from northwest Ohio will compete in the Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics and Science (TEAMS) competition to be held on Ohio Northern University's campus on Wednesday, Feb. 20. TEAMS is a dynamic academic program and competition that introduces high school students to the world of engineering.
Student teams currently are in training for the competition, applying classroom-taught math and science concepts to real-world problems. The teams must also...
