Engineering Technology

NSU science, technology students, faculty use biomedical, software skills during pandemic

NATCHITOCHES – Science and engineering technology students and faculty at Northwestern State University are lending their expertise to help healthcare providers and the community during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Anna Dugas, an assistant professor of physics, created a COVID-19 face shield and requested permission to use university’s Lutzbot Taz 6 3-D FDM printer to print 28 face […]

ET student, faculty earn ASEE-CIEC honors

NATCHITOCHES – Aura Hernandez of Natchitoches, a graduate student at Northwestern State University, earned the Best Poster Award at the Conference for Industry Education Collaboration sponsored by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE-CIEC) in Orlando, Florida, last month.  Hernandez’s poster, “Evaluation of Paint Primers on Weathered Wood,” was judged on the originality of her […]

ET hosts 5th annual Robotics Competition

Timothy Rodriguez, center, and Marquis Miles, right, from Natchitoches Magnet School readied their robot for strength competition while NSU Engineering Technology student Caleb Vining recorded stats during NSU’s fifth annual Robotics Competition. This is the first year Natchitoches Magnet’s Robotics Club has participated.

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High schoolers learn about career opportunities at Engineering Technology Symposium

NATCHITOCHES – “Technology touches every aspect of our lives,” said Dr. Jafar Al-Sharab, head of Northwestern State University’s Department of Engineering Technology, as 285 high school students from Lincoln, Ouachita, Sabine and Calcasieu parishes convened for the Engineering Technology Symposium at NSU.

 

The agenda included an exhibition of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines offered […]

Reliford article featured on Cambridge content site

NATCHITOCHES – An article by Ronald Reliford of Campti has been published in Cambridge Core, the home of academic content for Cambridge University Press.  “Analysis of Denton E-Beam 2 Nanofabricated Thin Films by Metrology” highlights the importance of instrumentation (measurement and control) and metrology (study of measurement) in nanotechnology and its emerging applications in everything […]

Students sign to participate in AMT

Through the AMT program, students work as a paid employee in their sponsoring manufacturing facility three days per week and attend intensive classes at CLTCC two days per week with both CLTCC and NSU faculty.

Inaugural AMT class honored with recognition ceremony

Benjamin Gewin, Taylor Kight and Melonia McDaniel are the first completers of an innovative program in which students attend classes at CLTCC two days per week and work in paid positions three days per week in a sponsoring manufacturing facility.

NSU will participate in upcoming events to promote AMT program

Northwestern State University will participate in two upcoming events to promote the Advanced Manufacturing Technician (AMT) GeauxFAME program, a partnership between NSU, Central Louisiana Technical Community College and Natchitoches Community Alliance.

Students participate in RockOn! workshop

A student and faculty team from Northwestern State University participated in a research event hosted by NASA earlier this summer at Wallops Flight Facility on the eastern shore of Virginia.

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