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Some undergrad students fromthe Illinois Institute of Tech-nology’s Armour College ofEngineering are gearing upto compete this spring in the

Parker Chainless Challenge, a featthat involves creating a bicycle thatoperates without a chain.

The competition is sponsored bythe California-based Parker HannifinCorporation and students fromvarious colleges and universities fromaround the country are tasked withdesigning the bicycle (or tricycle),building it and entering it into thecompetition, this year being heldApril 8, 9 and 10 at The Great Park inIrvine, Calif.

The goal, according to MatthewSpenko, associate professorof mechanical and aerospace

engineering at IIT, is to get studentsmore familiar with Parker Hannifinand the use of fluid power. It’s notabout creating a new product as achain remains the best way to powera bicycle.

“This is definitely not somethingyou would bring to market,” Spenkosaid.“It’s not a product developmenttype challenge. It’s more about thelearning and engineering challengeof doing something different than it isabout creating a better bicycle.”

The goal is to give the studentsan open-ended problem to solve.There really is no one solution to theproblem of using hydraulics to powera bicycle, Spenko said.

According to the specifications forthe challenge as outlined by ParkerHannifin, the objective is to “promoteoriginal thinking in a competitivesetting by combining two technologyplatforms that are not normallyassociated with one another – the

bicycle and fluid power.”Parker Hannifin manufactures

motion and control technologiesand systems, providing engineeredsolutions for a variety of mobile,industrial and aerospace markets.The company employs approximately57,500 people in 50 countries aroundthe world.

There are two different phasesof the completion. In the first phase,the students score points basedon vehicle and fluid circuit design,hardware selection, analysis ofdynamics, fluid flow, expectedperformance and prototype builddate.The students also are tested ontime management.

All this leads up to the second andfinal phase of the competition whichinvolves a sprint race, a time trial race,an efficiency challenge and otherraces designed to test how well eachindividual team’s bicycle or tricycleperforms.

Two years ago, IIT walked awaywinning six out of seven categories.However, last year (the third year IITstudents competed), a part on thebike failed and IIT was knocked outof the competition early, accordingto Carl Ferrario, project lead formechanical work on this year’s team.This year, he said, he and his fellowteam members are hungry for someredemption.

“We’re improving on last year’sdesign,” said Ferrario, a former bikemechanic and junior at IIT.“We’refeeling confident that we worked outthe bug.”

The bug, Ferrario added, wasgoing to a completely new design tooquickly.They used a tricycle designfor the first two years and last yearwas the first year they used a bicycle.

While the competition is important,Ferrario pointed to other benefits ofchallenge.

“It’s that bridge between booklearning and working in industry soyou can hit the ground running aftergraduation,” he said. It’s great workingwith Parker Hannifin because they’resuch a big name in the industry.”

The students also get a chanceto use the latest technology. Forexample, according to Ferrario, thebicycle he and other students arecreating this year is being designedusing 3D imaging software.

The students are almost finishedwith the prototype and are eagerto move on to the final phase of thecompetition. Other IIT team memberswho are part of this year’sParker ChainlessChallenge includeEmanouelMilanov,ChaemoonLee, NicholasTaluzek,DavidCermak andNathan Ruhl.

ParkerHannifinunderwrites theentire competition,paying for the partsnecessary to build thebikes and transportation to thecompetition and also awards cashprizes to both the winning studentsand their school.This year, IIT will

be competing against studentsfrom 10 colleges and universities,including the University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign, the Universityof Cincinnati, California PolytechnicState University – San Luis Obispo,Purdue University,Western MichiganUniversity, Murray State University,Cleveland State University, theUniversity of Akron, Case WesternReserve University and OhioUniversity.

One of the benefits to ParkerHannifin is it gives the company achance to find quality engineers. Forexample, two former IIT students whowere team members for previouschallenges – Josh Buck and SeanO’Halloran – are now employed inParker’s aerospace division.

Bob Meyer, who competed in thechallenge for IIT last year, is now acomputer aided engineer in vehicledynamics and loads for GeneralMotors. He said the competition is agreat way for students to work on realprojects and get solid experience toprepare them for the real world.

“Fluid power is everywhere andit’s been around forever; it’s hugelypowerful and versatile,” Meyer said.“Just about the only mark againstit is its notorious lack of efficiency.The Chainless Challenge bringsthis otherwise easy to ignore flawto center stage.The rules arestructured so you can’t just ply theindustry standard and throw energyat the bikes to overcome the lack ofefficiency.You must design out the

inefficiency.”Meyer said he is gratefulto Parker Hannifin for

creating and executingthe challenge.“Anyone can donateto schools but ittakes a special kindof company to breakthe norm and hostsomething like the

Chainless Challengeand I think this desire

to set the trend is whatmakes Parker such an

extraordinary company,”Meyer said.

For more information about thestudent’s progress in this year’scompetition, visit www.engineering.iit.edu.

Team to compete in Parker ChainlessChallenge this spring in California

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Poised for the challenge: IIT students Chaemoon Lee (from left), Carl Ferrario, Nathan Ruhl, Emanouel Milanov and Nicholas Taluzek work onthe bicycle they plan to enter in the Parker Chainless Challenge this spring. | PHOTO BY MICHAEL ROBERTS

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was “plastics.”For students looking fora hot career ticket now,there is no one word,according tocollege and universityleaders and advisors.

The top majors thatemployers are looking forinclude perennial favoritessuch as engineering,computer science andbusiness and finance, saidLinda Moore, director ofcareer services at EasternIllinois University inCharleston. Health care,especially majors thatrequire more education suchas occupational or physicaltherapy, is also in demand.

The National Associationof Colleges and Employersfound that more than 57percent of respondingemployers intend to hirefinance majors this year,said Doug Reichenberger,director of career services atSouthern Illinois University-Carbondale. More than 56percent intended to hireaccounting majors, and morethan half want to highercomputer science and

mechanical engineeringmajors.

Those aren’t the onlymajors that are gettinghired, Moore said.Thesame companies thatwant business or financemajors also want tobring communicationsor psychology majorsinto their workforces totake advantage of theirinterpersonal skills.

“They can go into humanresources or recruiting,”Moore said.“But they canalso get managementtraining positions.Theyembed them with thebusiness and financemajors.”

Reichenberg said theexperience of recentgraduates at SIUsupports those trends.More than 40 percentof December 2014graduates whoalready have jobsare working inbusiness-relatedfields.The nextlargest group isworking in fields thatemphasize interpersonalrelations, including socialwork, education andsimilar settings.The thirdlargest group is working inengineering, he said.

The most important thing,Moore said, is for studentsto keep their options openwhen the start college andspend time during their first

year to find out what careersare available to them.

“It might turn out thatthey want to do somethingthat they never heard of,”Moore said,“Many studentsare picking from the sliceof the pie they know, andthey don’t even see the restof the pie.They need to usetheir career center, and useit early.”

Students at GovernorsState University are

asked to do something simi-lar, choosing a broad area ofstudy as a freshman beforenarrowing their choice ofmajor down their junior year,university president ElaineMaiman said.

It’s part of the GovernorsState plan for students’ firsttwo years, a new program inan institution that until thisyear only offered degreecompletion for studentswho did their first two yearselsewhere and graduateprograms.

A survey released by theAssociation of AmericanColleges and Universitiesshows that employers of allkinds value people who cancommunicate well in speechand in writing, think criticallyand work well with others,Maimon said.The first twoyears at Governors Statein all areas emphasize thedevelopment of those skillsacross curriculum areas.

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Students who start asfreshmen at Governors Statetake at least three classes

each semester with studentsassigned to the samelearning group, with adedicated core of facultymembers and a careercounselor assigned towork with them from theirfirst semester, Maimon

said. Students also willhear from people who work

in the broad areas they areinterested in so they know whatthey need to pursue their goals.

“For example, to be licensedas a physical therapist, you musthave a doctoral degree,” shesaid.“If that’s what you wantto do, you need to major insomething that will prepare youfor that.”

Graduates in GovernorsState doctoral programs

in occupational and physicaltherapy are in high demand,Maimon said, as those whoreceive doctorates in nursing.

Students who receive healthcare qualifications at thecommunity college level arealso in demand, said StevenGustis, manager of careerservices at Collegeof DuPage.

Graduates of the college’sdental hygiene program arein especially high demandnow, he said, as are registerednurses and certified nursingassistants. Home health servicesespecially are looking forworkers, he said.

Students also can start anengineering degree at Collegeof DuPage, and, if they meetrequirements, finish theirdegrees at the University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The program “sets themup for almost guaranteedadmission at U of I,” Gustissaid, noting that students enterthe U of I engineering schoolas juniors.“And that’s a very

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Certifications in informationtechnology are popular,especially in networkingtechnology and in computerinformation systems, he said.

Reichenberger said studentswho have a passion for acareer that isn’t on the “hot list”

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attitude of,‘It’ll be a challenge,but this is what I really want todo,’” SIU’s Reichenberger said.

“They’re determined.In a lot of cases, they’resuccessful because ofthat passion.”

Some groups areheaded towards STEMcareers, she said, andthey are on a track thathas then taking calculus.The others focus on

statistics, whichwill be useful ina wide variety ofcareers.

Maimon,who was anEnglish majorat the University ofPennsylvania, said,“Inever took calculusand I never missed it.I never took statisticsand I miss it every day.”

Once students reach theirjunior year, or those who transferin after two years at a communitycollege, they can start lookingfor internships to find out

what they can do with, say, anEnglish degree in a business orgovernment setting.

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Hard at work: A student in the dentalhygiene program at College of DuPageworks on a patient in the college’sdental hygiene lab. Steven Gustis,manager of the career services at thecollege, said there has been strongdemand in recent years for dentalhygienists. | SUPPLIED PHOTO

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With tuitions at an all-time high, the cost ofcollege and the increasingly competitive jobmarket have become major considerations foraspiring college students and their parents.

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You may have heard Eastern Illinois University is the No. 4 public regional uni-versity in the Midwest, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings.

The faculty and staff at Eastern Illinois University is proud to receive this kindof recognition from such a well-respected publication — also note that U.S. Newsbumped the university up five spots to a No. 31 ranking among hundreds ofMidwestern regional universities offering master’s degree programs — but it’sno surprise to see EIU ranked as high as it is compared to its peers in Illinois andthe 12-state Midwest region. After all, the combination of academic excellence,student life opportunities and superior value offered at EIU isn’t easily matched.

Academic ExcellenceThe 14:1 student-faculty ratio and average class size of 17 guarantee EIU

students will always have access to the kind of personal relationships with their in-structors they can’t find at just any institution. Students who choose EIU appreciatethis, too, as illustrated by the fact that the university continues to tout the highestfreshman retention rate (79 percent) and the highest graduation rate (60 percent)among all Illinois public universities in its class.

A Living-Learning CommunityBut, a college student’s opportunity for growth shouldn’t begin and end

in a classroom or laboratory, and at Eastern, faculty and staff take that belief toheart. EIU presents myriad opportunities for growth as an individual through par-ticipation in one — or many — of the university’s hundreds of registered studentorganizations covering a wide variety of interests and subjects.

In addition, the active Office of Student Community Service serves as arepresentation of the university’s commitment to volunteerism. Beginning from thefirst days an EIU student spends on campus, the importance and personal benefitsof community are instilled upon them.

The faculty and staff of EIU think this shows in the number of additionalhours students put into volunteering during the remainder of their stay, whichrecently went over a half million.

A Tremendous ValueIn a time when skyrocketing tuition and slashed admission standards are

a reality at nearly every other similar school, EIU has done neither.The university’s already affordable tuition rates — available not only to in-state

students but also residents of neighboring states — remained constant from lastyear to this year.

At the same time, EIU managed to maintain the same standard of excellence stu-dents, faculty, and alumni have grown to expect for those entering our university.The faculty and staff of EIU truly believe you could search the entire region and notfind a better value for your college dollar.

Ask yourself now,“Am I EIU?” If you think you could be, begin your #Fu-turePanther journey by visiting us at www.eiu.edu.

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The digital age has made on-line information widely availableboth for good and bad purposes.When it comes to the nation’ssecurity, monitoring, tracking,securing and analyzing digitaldata is a key factor in defendingintelligence networks.

Creating a line of cyberwarfare defense is the U.S. Navy’sresponsibility, which has a com-munity charged with master-ing the capabilities, tools andtechniques required to effectivelycollect, process, analyze and ap-ply information.

This is a growing field, and in-dividuals interested in careers incomputer science and computerengineering will find excellentopportunities with the Navy.Enlisted sailors and naval officersspecialize in information-intensivefields that include informationmanagement, information tech-nology, information warfare, cyberwarfare, cryptology, intelligence,meteorology and oceanography.Collaboratively, they developand defend vital intelligence,networks andsystems.Theyalso managethe criticalinformation thatsupports theU.S. Navy, jointand nationalwarfightingrequirements,maintaining theNavy’s essentialtechnologicaledge.

Cyberspaceis the interde-

pendent network of informationtechnology infrastructures, includ-ing the Internet, telecommunica-tions networks, computer systemsand embedded processors andcontrollers. America’s Navy hashighly technical computer scien-tists and computer engineers whodevelop tools and techniques inthe information environment thatensure situational awareness, pro-vide defense against attacks anddeliver tactical advantages.

Some of the day-to-day jobsinclude gathering data throughsources ranging from advancedcyberspace operations to un-manned surveillance systems,converting data into actionableintelligence, and maintainingcutting-edge communicationsnetworks that effectively shareand safeguard information. It’s allpart of the mission for those whoserve in the professional areasof information and technologyin America’s Navy — for thosewarriors who do battle within thecyberspace domain.

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High-tech monitoring of digitalinformation keeps America secure

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Courses designed to acquireResidency & Licensure in theUSA & abroadConsists of 4-semester BasicScience program in St. Lucia5th semester completedat a U.S. teaching hospital5th semester includes a liveUSMLE board review72-week Clinical Study programin the U.S. at teaching hospitalsBasic Science tuition$3,800.00/semesterClinical Science tuition$8,400.00/semester

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Upcoming Spring Admission Events

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Understanding Your Financial AidMarch 24, 2015 | 6-8 p.m.

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Open HouseMarch 26, 2015 | 4:30-7 p.m.

Open House is designed for adultstudents. Whether you’re interested inone of our nine graduate programs,looking to complete a certificate, ortransferring after attending another

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Graduate ProgramsTransferring to Mount Mary

Accelerated & Certificate ProgramsAdult Student Options & Resources

Preview DayApril 25, 2015 | 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.Designed for high school sophomores

and juniors, Preview Day will help you geta head start on the college admission

process. You’ll learn about scholarships,financial aid, and student activities

offered at Mount Mary University! Plus,speak with current Mount Mary studentsand faculty about your academic andextracurricular interests, and enjoy a

student-led tour of our beautiful campus.

CREO 2015: IgniteAnnual Student Designer Fashion & Art Show

Friday, May 8, 2015 | mtmary.edu/creoYou’re invited to a live, student-designed,

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