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 College of Engineering honored Donald Campbell with the T.J. Smull College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award on March 21. Campbell, who has had an accomplished career in the aerospace industry, is the second recipient of the award, which was established in 2010. After Campbell, who grew up in Lima, Ohio, graduated from ONU in 1959 with a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering, he earned a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Ohio State...
Dr. Khalid Al-Olimat, associate professor and chair of the Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department presented a paper titled "A Simple and Feasible Design Approach to Power System Stabilizers" at the 31st IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Identification, and Control (MIC 2011) which took place Feb. 14-16, 2011, in Innsbruck, Austria. The research paper was supported by the summer research program of Ohio Northern University.Al-Olimat also...
Sarah L. (McConnell) Rowland, BSCE ’06, P.E., has been named 2011 Young Engineer of the Year by the Toledo Society of Professional Engineers, Ohio chapter. She was honored at a luncheon on Monday, Feb. 21 and a dinner banquet on Thursday, Feb. 24.The award is given to a young engineer who excels in educational and collegiate achievements, professional and technical society activities, civic and humanitarian activities, engineering achievements and professional engineering accomplishments.A...
Three juniors in civil engineering, Michael Abraham from Olmsted Falls, Ohio, Chad Coward from Crestline, Ohio, and Andrea Turnwald from Ottoville, Ohio, have received Hot Mix Asphalt scholarships. The scholarships are for $1,000 each.Flexible Pavements of Ohio (FPO) and its member companies, working through the Ohio Asphalt Scholarship Fund, sponsor the scholarships at 10 universities in Ohio, which offer courses in asphalt pavement technology.All three ONU recipients are students in Dr....
Dr. Paul Polak, founder of the Colorado-based nonprofit organization International Development Enterprises (IDE), will be the featured speaker for the Ohio Northern University Spotts Lecture in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts on Monday, March 21, at 7 p.m. His speech, “Design for the Other 90 Percent,” is free and open to the public. IDE was established to increase the income of those in impoverished countries by country-specific, market-oriented development models. The...
Two teams of Ohio Northern University engineering students garnered top 20 finishes in the regional Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) “Backwoods Baja,” race in Arkansaw, Wis., on Saturday, Oct. 23.Hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Stout, the event consisted of two two-hour endurance races on a short motocross-style track. The freshman team, driving car No. 80, were plagued by drive-train problems throughout the race and finished 12th out of 25. ONU’s other entry, No. 41, finished second...
Members of the ONU engineering faculty presented a series of papers at the recent Frontiers in Education Conference in Washington, D.C. Dr. Ken Reid, director of freshman engineering and associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, presented a paper co-authored by Dr. John Estell, professor of computer engineering and computer science, titled “Development of Personas: Emphasizing Human Need in a First-Year Engineering Course.” Dr. Reid presented two additional papers...
Engineering’s Structures 1 Class, taught by Dr. Ahmed Abdel-Mohti, assistant professor of civil engineering, attended Ohio Contractor Association (OCA) Day on Oct.21, 2010 in Perrysburg, Ohio.This annual event allows students visit a number of construction sites to learn about structures. Six schools participated with ONU having the largest number of students participating.Lindsay Ziegler, a junior in civil engineering from Bowling Green, Ohio, was awarded one out of four OCA scholarships...
Ohio Iota, the ONU chapter of the engineering honor society Tau Beta Pi, was honored at the 105th Tau Beta Pi National Convention in King of Prussia, Pa. Chapter members attending the convention included: president Lauren Sutherland, senior electrical engineering major from Findlay, Ohio; corresponding secretary Michael Krak, senior mechanical engineering major from Senecaville, Ohio; Joint Engineering Council representative Andrew Stephon, senior computer engineering major from New...
ONU has received a $19,500 course and program grant from the National College Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) to support “Cross-disciplinary Development Teams to Make Students’ Ideas Real,” a project aimed at advancing the entrepreneurial mindset at Ohio Northern University. The project involves both the T.J. Smull College of Engineering and The James F. Dicke College of Business and will be implemented by Dr. J.D. Yoder, associate professor of mechanical engineering and...
