Posts Tagged ‘teaching grants’
NFPA Foundation Supports Chainless Challenge Team – Hands On Experience for Students
NFPA Education and Technology Foundation awarded a teaching grant to support a team of students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that exposed them to fluid power design, applications and technology through a capstone design project that required them to develop a fluid powered bicycle to compete in the Parker Hannifin sponsored Chainless Challenge.…
Read MoreNFPA Foundation Awards Three Teaching Grants For The 2015 Fall Semester
The NFPA Education and Technology Foundation has awarded three teaching grants that will begin in fall 2015. The objective of these teaching grants is to engage students in learning about fluid power, encourage teaching resources, connect talented students to our industry and foster ongoing forums between educators and industry. Student Activity Based Learning Project, Antigone Sharris,…
Read MoreNFPA Teaching Grant recipient Georgia Tech’s Creative Decisions and Design course
I recently visited the Georgia Institute of Technology to see first-hand how the NFPA Education and Technology Foundation teaching grant has inspired the increased use of pneumatic systems in the Creative Decisions and Design course. The grant has enabled the school to purchase additional components to accommodate the increased number of students enrolling in the…
Read MoreStudents Learn About Fluid Power Through NFPA Funded Projects
The NFPA Education and Technology Foundation has awarded six teaching grants. The projects will begin in January 2015, and give a number of students opportunities to learn about and study fluid power: At Western New England University, a senior mechanical engineering student is involved in the design and modeling of the Development of Servo-Pneumatic Experimental…
Read MoreTeaching Grants Engage Students in Fluid Power
The NFPA Education and Technology Foundation has awarded six teaching grants that will begin in January 2015. The objective of the grants is to engage students in learning about fluid power, encourage teaching resources at 2-year colleges and 4-year universities, connect talented students to our industry and foster ongoing forums between educators and industry. The…
Read MoreNFPA Education and Technology Foundation Awards Five New Teaching Grants
Five 2014 spring semester teaching grants have been awarded by the NFPA Education and Technology Foundation. Each grant will help strengthen interest in fluid power and help the Foundation in its efforts to attract some of the best and brightest students to our field. This brings the number of teaching grants to 34, given out to…
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