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 compete in the Chainless Challenge

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.…

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NFPA Foundation Awards Three Teaching Grants For The 2015 Fall Semester

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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,…

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NFPA Teaching Grant recipient Georgia Tech’s Creative Decisions and Design course

Georgia Tech's ME2110: Creative Decisions and Design class

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…

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Students Learn About Fluid Power Through NFPA Funded Projects

Students learn about fluid power through NFPA Foundation 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…

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Teaching Grants Engage Students in Fluid Power

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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…

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