NIU College of Engineering and Engineering Technology

Established in 1985, the NIU College of Engineering and Engineering Technology is the youngest college on the Northern Illinois University (NIU) campus. CEET enrollment has increased every year despite a decrease in national enrollments.[2]

In June 2016, the NIU College of Engineering and Engineering Technology announced Omar A. Ghrayeb, Ph.D as interim dean, effective June 30.[3] In July 2017, Donald Peterson, Ph.D. joined the college as dean. Peterson is an accomplished researcher with degrees in aerospace, mechanical and biomedical engineering. He previously held faculty and administrative positions at Texas A&M University-Texarkana and the University of Connecticut.

Also leading the college are Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs Mansour Tahernezhadi, Ph.D., P.E., and Abul Azad, Ph.D., the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Outreach and Diversity.

• Biomedical Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Engineering Technology
• Industrial and Systems Engineering
• Mechatronics Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

CEET faculty are engaged in a broad array of research sponsored by private industry and agencies such as:[4]

• National Science Foundation
• Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
• Argonne National Laboratory
• National Institute of Standards and Technology
• State of Illinois
• NASA Illinois Space Grant Consortium

Ongoing research addresses issues in Homeland Security, energy and environment, lean manufacturing, active noise and vibration control, supply chain management, biodegradable products, P-20, computational engineering, biomedical engineering, nanoscience, health systems engineering, wireless communications, power electronics, radio frequency, mechatronics, computational fluid dynamics, and more.[5]

Engineering Building: The main NIU College of Engineering and Engineering Technology building is designed to teach students concepts in the classroom and immerse them in their application. While it has a full complement of modern classrooms, most of the building is dedicated to laboratory space where students can get hands-on experience at everything from creating nano-technology in the newly updated micro-electronics lab to building half-scale race cars and industrial robots in the large industrial labs.

Students also have access to laboratories featuring wind tunnels, a sound-proof acoustics testing chamber, and labs dedicated to work in fields like bio-signal analysis and electrodynamics.

Still Hall and Still Gym: The CEET Department of Technology is housed in the historic Still Hall and Still Gym. Opened in 1928, the buildings were among some of the first built on campus and originally housed a gymnasium, Industrial Arts Laboratories, classrooms, rooms for printing, book binding, metal work and mechanical drawing.

Today the buildings house 13 laboratories that feature state of the art technologies for students working on robotics, digital communications, plastics injection molding, pneumatics and hydraulics and rapid prototyping of mechanical parts. The buildings also include workshops for metal working and welding.

Computer Labs: Computer labs maintained by a dedicated IT staff are located in each building.

The NIU College of Engineering and Engineering Technology is ranked 38th (2020) in the nation for public engineering institutions where master's degrees are the highest degree offered (US News and World Report).[10]

• Official website