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Tagged: Department of Mechanical Engineering

NIU Supermileage team wins international competition

Champs earn best placement in team’s 10-year history

  • April 12, 2019
DeKalb, Ill. — The NIU Supermileage team has earned the “super” in its name. And then some. The team took top honors at a recent international competition in California when…

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NIU students push 3D printing boundaries to the max

Latest collaboration pairs college with RadMax Technologies, Inc. (RadMax)

  • February 25, 2019
DeKalb, Ill. — Surrounded by 3D printers in a space designed to challenge and inspire, Todd Durham feels at home. The mechanical engineering major from Genoa spends much of his…

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Brianno Coller

Race cars, video games, engineering lessons

NIU’s Brianno Coller named Illinois Professor of the Year

  • November 19, 2015
Engineering professor Brianno Coller’s epiphany came when he was showing a NASA-produced video of a mission to Mars to a class. Something shifted in the air. The students’ body language…

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