ANGOLA – Thirteen graduating seniors in Trine University's Allen School of Engineering & Technology were inducted into the Order of the Engineer during a recent ceremony.
Tanner Neeley, of Mentone, majoring in electrical engineering, was among the students who participated in the ring ceremony in Fawick Hall on Wednesday.
The ring ceremony is the public induction of candidates into the Order of the Engineer, a fellowship of engineers who are trained in science and technology and dedicated to the practice, teaching or administration of their profession.
During the ceremony, engineering students are invited to accept the Obligation of the Engineer and a stainless steel ring is placed on the smallest finger of the working hand. The obligation is a formal statement of an engineer's responsibilities to the public and to the profession. Both the order and the obligation serve to stimulate public recognition by engineers of two basic principles: that the primary purpose of the engineering profession is the protection of the public health, safety and welfare; and that all members of the engineering profession share a common bond, according to a news release from Trine.
Trine University conducted its first ring ceremony in November 1978.
Awards Presented For STEM Symposium
ANGOLA – Trine University presented its second STEM Research and Design Symposium on Dec. 7 in the Jim and Joan Bock Center for Innovation and Biomedical Engineering.
The symposium featured 43 student projects from the Bock Department of Biomedical Engineering, the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, the Department of Chemistry, the Department of Exercise Science, the Department of Mathematics and the Doctor of Physical Therapy program. More than 85 students participated.
Projects ranged from departmental freshman and research projects to Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) and graduate-level research.
More than 100 attended the event, including students, faculty, staff and community members.
A local student presented with an award included:
• Honorable Mention Undergraduate Project: Nicole Finchum, a junior biomedical engineering major from Oak Forest, Illinois, and Alex Plastow, a junior biomedical engineering major from Warsaw, for “Platelet Adhesion of a Fibrinogen-Soaked Polycrystalline Silicon Biointerface: a Comparison with a Novel d-LbL Biointerface.”
