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. Ken Reid, director of freshman engineering and associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Ohio Northern University, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to examine the current state of first-year engineering courses. The grant totals $63,062.Reid will lead a steering committee of engineering professors from prominent universities across the country who teach first-year programs. This committee will develop an Imen-Delphi procedure to collect data from a...
Ohio Northern University Engineering Projects (Bonyo's Kenya Mission) ONU students design two projects
Jacque Daley-Perrin has joined Ohio Northern as director of development for the College of Engineering.
A graduate of Bowling Green State University, she holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education. She comes to ONU from Rhodes State College, Lima, where she was vice president for college advancement. Prior to that she was executive director of the Lima Memorial Hospital Foundation and also held professional positions at Bowling Green State University and The Ohio State University,...
Ohio Northern University professors Dr. John-David Yoder, associate professor of mechanical engineering, Dr. Robert Verb, associate professor of biology, and Dr. Leslie A. Riley, assistant professor of biological sciences, received a $10,000 research grant to design, build and test a watercraft capable of autonomously sampling water quality on Ohio lakes.
A team of Ohio Northern engineering and biology students, advised by faculty from both areas, will be responsible for creating and testing...
Dr. John K. Estell, chair of the Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department, has been named program chair for the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Computers in Education Division’s 2011 ASEE Annual Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and the 2012 ASEE Annual Conference in San Antonio, Texas.
As program chair, Estell will be responsible for organizing the paper sessions within the division for these two conferences.
“Addressing Third World Poverty in First-Year Engineering Capstone Projects: Initial Findings,” a paper by Dr. John K. Estell, chair of the Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department, Dr. Ken Reid, director of the Freshman Engineering Program, and Dr. Jed Marquart, interim chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department, has been awarded third place in competition sponsored by the First-Year Programs Division (FPD) of the American Society for Engineering Education (...
The Ohio Northern University Office of Alumni Relations honored five alumni with Distinguished Alumni Awards during the 2010 Alumni Weekend on June 5. Ohio Northern’s Distinguished Alumni Awards are based on outstanding service to the objectives of ONU’s Alumni Association, service with distinction in the nominee’s chosen profession, and tangible expression of loyalty to ONU. This year’s honorees are Thomas J. Hagan, a 1965 pharmacy graduate from Covington, Ohio; John Harrison Hull, a 1975...
Dr. Srinivasa R. Vemuru, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Ohio Northern University, will use a $23,112 grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a laboratory at the T.J. Smull College of Engineering for the development of computationally intensive algorithms and the use of commercial CAD tools for testing digital and analog VLSI, FPGAs and advanced semiconductor devices. Titled “Digital/VLSI Test and Reliable Computing Research Laboratory,” Vemeru’s...
Young students introduced to engineering (IndyStar.com, Ken Reid, engineering, quoted)
Students from Ohio Northern University’s T.J. Smull College of Engineering will create two robotic football players to compete in the third annual University of Notre Dame robotic competition next spring.
As part of their senior capstone project during the 2010-11 academic year, a team of ONU students will create two robotics players with funding from the University of Notre Dame. These players will compete in a “combine,” which tests the skills of each robot specific to their position, and...
