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’s Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Baja team placed 17th overall at the regional Baja SAE® competition held June 11-14. The team also took 9th in the endurance portion of the competition. 100 teams traveled from across the globe, including the United States, Canada, North Korea, El Salvador and Mexico to Burlington, Wis., for the event.
The Baja SAE® competition serves to challenge engineering students to research and design an off-road vehicle to be subjected to...
The Ohio Northern University off-road vehicle team finished 17th at Baja SAE Wisconsin 2009, held in Burlington, Wis., June 11-14. The Ohio Northern University off-road vehicle team finished 17th at Baja SAE Wisconsin 2009, held in Burlington, Wis., June 11-14. In addition, ONU's concrete canoe team finished 13th at the 22nd annual American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) National Concrete Canoe Competition at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala., June 11-13. "Through these...
Ohio Northern University will celebrate its 2009 Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony on Sunday, May 24, 2009, at 2 p.m. in the Sports Center.
About 600 students will be awarded degrees.
Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher will address the graduating students as the guest speaker. Fisher has more than 16 years of public service, serving as Ohio attorney general, as a state senator and as a state representative. Prior to becoming lieutenant governor and state development director, Fisher served as the...
ONU electrical engineering alumna, Kate (Plummer) Gray, BSEE '07, was recently featured as the "Extreme Engineer" for the April 2009 issue of The Pre-Engineering Times. The Pre-Engineering Times is a monthly electronic newsletter published by JETS (the Junior Engineering Technical Society) that goes to thousands of students and teachers. To see the article, go to the April 2009 Newsletter.
Nine ONU engineering students, along with their faculty advisor, recently traveled to Tucson, Ariz. to participate in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Undergraduate Design, Build, and Fly (DBF) Competition. The competition was held at the TIMPA Airfield, in the desert outside of Tucson, on April 17-19.
The goal of the DBF competition was for each team to design, build and fly a radio controlled model airplane that could successfully complete a variety of...
Three students majoring in electrical and computer engineering at Ohio Northern have won an award in the Region 2 IEEE Students Activity Conference in Youngstown State University for their senior design project titled “A Design of an Impact Monitor Device”.
The team of Thomas Fritz, of Middlefield, Ohio, Michael Sherry, of Defiance, Ohio, and John Weeman, of Wooster, Ohio, won second place in the paper defending competition. The students were awarded certificates and $500.
The IEEE region...
Five ONU engineering students were recently awarded scholarships by the Ohio Space Grant Consortium (OSGC). These scholarships are funded through the OSGC by NASA and are intended to encourage engineering students to enter the aerospace field.
The three junior scholars will receive $3,000 each for the 2009-10 academic year and will be eligible to continue as senior scholars. The two senior scholars, who served previously as junior scholars, will each receive $4,000 for the 2009-10...
David C. Crago, Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law dean and professor of law, has been named ONU’s interim vice president of academic affairs, effective July 1.
Crago, who will remain dean of the College of Law, takes on the responsibilities of the departing Dr. Anne Lippert, who announced her retirement earlier this year. Lippert, who has been with ONU since 1971, has served as vice president since 1992.
Dr. Kendall L. Baker, ONU president, said, “Dean Crago has provided...
Two ONU senior mechanical engineering students recently took first place at a regional student conference with their senior capstone project. Nick Schifer of Bucyrus, Ohio, and Matt Schuster of Worthington, Ohio, recently traveled to the Region 3 student conference of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) to present a report on the project. This year, the conference was hosted by the AIAA chapter at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. When it was over,...
The Ohio Northern University concrete-canoe team captured first place in the American Society of Civil Engineers' regional concrete-canoe contest at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Mich., April 2-4. The victory qualifies ONU to compete in the national competition in Tuscaloosa, Ala., June 11-13.
The Polar Bear's top finish marks the first time ONU has won the regional competition since participating in the event and broke a six-year winning streak by Michigan Tech....
