Russ College of Engineering and Technology Stories

OHIO researchers win grant to study treatment for possible fatal complications of COVID-19

April 30, 2020 5 min

Faculty researchers from Ohio University have received a $100,000 grant to investigate possible treatments for mitigating the severity of COVID-19.

Chemical engineering students top their task at virtual environmental design contest

April 27, 2020 3 min

Bringing home first place took on new meaning this month for an Ohio University chemical engineering student competition team.

Kenworth chosen as Outstanding Co-op and Internship Employer

April 27, 2020 2 min

Truck manufacturer Kenworth, a subsidiary of PACCAR, has been awarded the Russ College of Engineering and Technology’s Outstanding Co-op/Internship Employer for 2020.

Russ College students honored for leadership, accomplishments at Tau Beta Pi virtual award ceremony

April 21, 2020 4 min

Ohio University’s student chapter of engineering honorary society Tau Beta Pi hosted the Russ College of Engineering and Technology’s first-ever virtual event via YouTube on Saturday evening

Who is who in the Russ College, Grace Sallar

Who’s Who in the Russ College: Grace Sallar

March 23, 2020 1 min

Grace Sallar knows her way around the Russ College. Not only is she a staff and faculty member, she has spent the last 10 years at Ohio University

Faculty and student researchers in the Russ College’s Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment are developing composite decking boards from coal

From Idea to Shelf

February 20, 2020 3 min

OHIO’s Technology Transfer Office shepherds inventions to market

Students participating at the annual Russ College Spring Career fair

Career fair springs professional opportunities on students

February 17, 2020 2 min

Almost 50 companies seeking engineers and technologists connected with Russ College students Thursday and Friday at the annual spring career fair.

OHIO online graduate engineering programs among best in the nation

Ohio University online graduate engineering programs among best in the nation

January 21, 2020 2 min

he Russ College of Engineering and Technology’s online graduate engineering programs rank 38th in the nation and 3rd in the State of Ohio for 2020, as well as 22nd in the nation for veterans

Meet + Greet: Andrew Weems, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

January 21, 2020 3 min

Where are you from, and what brought you to Athens?I’m originally from Tennessee but have lived throughout the South for the majority of my life.

Ohio University mechanical engineering seniors take third in national design competition

July 16, 2019 2 min

Mechanical engineering seniors have won third place in a national engineering design competition in Washington, D.C., in which students improve the working environments of people with disabilities.

John Sabraw painting on a canvas by a pond

Stewards of the Landscape

June 9, 2019 6 min

OHIO’s faculty and students are lending a nurturing hand to planet Earth by taking toxins from water to make artist-grade paint pigments and leveraging life-sized replicas of oil and gas pipeline with software models to prevent spills.

collage of three vintage photos of people in Athens in or looking at airplanes

Friendly Skies

March 7, 2019 1 min

Ohio University’s Gordon Bush Airport is home to Francis Fuller Training Center, where almost 120 Russ College of Engineering and Technology students are working toward their private and commercial pilot licenses. The College also offers an aviation management degree. Future pilots start in the classroom and can eventually become Certified Flight Instructors themselves, along the way banking more than 1,400 hours in flight before receiving their degrees.

The photo essay that follows illustrates the hours of effort OHIO aviation students put into becoming pilots.

Ohio University aviation program receives aircraft as top flight school

January 22, 2019 1 min

Textron Aviation, manufacturer of Cessna, Beechcraft, and other leading training aircraft, has named Ohio University as one of just four 2019 Top Hawk schools,

Chemical engineering senior and Society of Women Engineers President Ashley Weitzel helps an Athens-area Girl Scout assemble a Rube Goldberg machine at the groups’ “Buildings, Brains, and Boxes” design contest

The future (of engineering) is female

October 28, 2018 4 min

Ohio University students studying engineering and technology know to expect rigorous coursework and lots of career options. The field’s female students also know to expect a huge gender gap.

Last word with Amir Farnoud

August 16, 2018 2 min

Amir Farnoud is a researcher who thinks big but works with the very small. The very, very small.

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