T.J. Smull College of Engineering
Biggs Engineering Building
525 South Main St.
Ada, OH 45810
Phone: 419-772-2371
Email: engineering@onu.edu
Dr. Jed E. Marquart, Ohio Northern University professor of mechanical engineering, presented a paper and chaired a technical session at the Sixth Annual AIAA Flow Control Conference, sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). The conference was held in New Orleans, LA, on July 25-28 with more than 1,500 engineers and scientists in attendance, and approximately 750 technical papers were presented.Marquart chaired a technical session entitled “Boundary Layer...
The Ohio Northern University Baja SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) team finished fifth overall at Baja SAE Wisconsin 2012, held June 7-10 at the MGA Research Corporation Proving Grounds in Burlington, Wis.The event featured 95 colleges and universities and was sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.“We are ecstatic with a fifth place finish in Wisconsin. With the large amount of teams attending and the amount of talent there, this was by far one of the toughest competitions we...
The Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN), a collection of 20 colleges and universities that includes Ohio Northern University, was awarded an Edison Gold Medal in the category of Collaborative Networks and Support on Thursday, April 26. The award was announced during the Edison Awards’ 25th anniversary celebration in New York City.The colleges involved with KEEN were recognized for their collaborative work in creating the 21st-century engineer by instilling the entrepreneurial mindset...
Ohio Northern University presented Dankook Awards to Chelsea Mack, a fall 2011 graduate from Euclid, Ohio, and Nicholas Baker, a spring 2012 graduate from Loveland, Ohio, in a ceremony prior to the undergraduate commencement on Sunday, May 13.Presented since 1974, the Dankook Award is an annual reciprocal award exchanged between Dankook University in South Korea and Ohio Northern University. The award recognizes students with outstanding records in academics, student leadership, co-curricular...
A team of students from Ohio Northern University’s Smull College of Engineering competed in the Lockheed Martin / Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Aero Design 2012 competition, hosted by Georgia Model Aviators. Northern’s team finished 22nd out of 40 squads in its class during the competition, which was staged in conjunction with the SAE Aero Design East 2012 event in Cumming, Ga., April 27-29.For the competition, each team must design, build and fly a radio-controlled model airplane that...
Ken Reid, director of first year engineering, and Chris North, associate professor of communication arts, have been invited to prepare a webinar/podcast on "International Service Learning" for the American Society for Quality (ASQ). The webinar is based on a workshop presented at the North Central ASEE Conference, recently held at Ohio Northern. See the webinar.
Dr. John K. Estell, professor of computer science and computer engineering, was an invited presenter at the 2012 ABET symposium held April 19-21 in St. Louis, Mo. His 90-minute presentation, “A Heuristic Approach to Assessing Student Outcomes Using Performance Vectors,” presented a methodology for systematically transforming the data collected from direct classroom assessment activities into succinct 4-tuple vectors that categorize aggregate student performance. Heuristics are then applied to...
Students from Ohio Northern University’s T.J. Smull College of Engineering have created a team of robotic football players to compete in the fourth annual University of Notre Dame robotic football competition on Friday, April 20, at 7 p.m. in Notre Dame’s Stepan Center. The event is free and open to the public.As part of their senior capstone project during the 2011-12 academic year, a team of ONU students manufactured robotic players (quarterbacks, centers, linemen, running backs, wide...
Ohio Northern University’s Smull College of Engineering will host the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) North Central Regional Conference, in which regional universities face off in a variety of competitions, including concrete canoe and steel bridge building competitions, from March 30-April 1.The three-day conference brings together hundreds of students from across Michigan and Ohio for a number of events, including oral presentations, canoe races, timed bridge assemblies, and load...
Ohio Northern University’s Baja Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) team finished first overall at the 2012 Winter Baja competition Feb. 18, 2012, in Lake Linden, Mich.Hosted by Michigan Technological University, the 2012 Winter Baja featured 48 cars from schools such as Virginia Tech, the Univiversity of Michigan, and South Dakota School of Mines. Although a relative lack of snow made track obstacles smaller this year, race organizers compensated by incorporating a half-acre skating rink...
