MIE ARCHIVE NEWS AND EVENTS | Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

March 2017 *Dr. Siva Nadimpalli*	Prof. Siva Nadimpalli in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering was honored with the 2017 National Science Foundation's most prestigious CAREER Award...read more
March 2017 *Prof. B. Mani (on left), Mrs. L. Tchouassi and Mr. J. Glaz*	Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Faculty and Staff received Awards at the Faculty, Staff and Student Award Ceremony of the 19th Annual NCE Salute to Engineering Excellent on March 9, 2017 in the Campus Center Ballroom. Prof. Balraj Mani, University Lecturer, received the 2017 Saul K. Fenster Innovation in Engineering Education Award Mrs. Lucie Tchouassi, Coordinator/Advisor, Undergraduate Program, received the 2017 Excellence in Advising Award Mr. Joseph Glaz, Laboratory Technical Coordinator received the 2017 Dean's Service Award
March 2017	Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Student Andrew Pennock received the 2017 Department Outstanding Senior Award at the Faculty, Staff and Student Award Ceremony of the 19th Annual NCE Salute to Engineering Excellent on March 9, 2017 in the Campus Center Ballroom.
December 2016 *Dr. Anthony Rosato*	Dr. Anthony Rosato was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics in December 2016.
November 2016 Bo Zhang	A Mechanical Engineering graduate student Bo Zhang received the AVS Vacuum Technology Division Oral Presentation Award, for presentation of "Dynamic Process Modeling on a Condensation-based Depressurization System". Awarded at the 63rd AVS International Symposium and Exhibition, November 2016.
October 27, 2016 Naga A. Musunuri	A Mechanical Engineering graduate student Naga Musunuri received the Graduate Student Award from the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame (NJIHoF). The award recognition is for: Research / commercial efforts related to developing new inexpensive and scalable spectroscopy methods for detection of adverse particles in a multitude of environments.
August 2016 *The people in the picture are (from left to right):* Back: Shuolun Wang, Edison Amah, Dr. Pushpendra Singh and Dr. Shawn Chester Front: Rajasekhar Tripuraneni, Dr. Anthony Rosato	A number of Mechanical Engineering faculty and students took part in the International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM). The conference was held in Montreal, August 2016. The three professors from Mechanical Engineering are: Pushpendra Singh gave an invited talk on "Fluid dynamics of hydrophilous pollination in Ruppia (widgeon grass)". This work is done in collaboration with Naga Musunuri and Prof. Ian Fischer of Mechanical Engineering, Prof. Dan Bunker of Biological Sciences, and Dr. Susan Pell of United States Botanic Garden. Shawn A. Chester spoke about "Combined Modeling and Experiments Polymeric Gels" Anthony Rosato was part of two lectures (1) "Magnetic point vortex dynamics in the plane" in collaboration with Denis Blackmore from our Math Department. And (2) "The Influence of Non-uniform Vibration on Granular Jamming, Segregation and Self-assembly" in collaboration with colleague Christopher Windows-Yule at the University of Twente, Netherlands. And the three graduate students from Mechanical Engineering are: Edison Amah spoke about "Electric Field Driven Hierarchical Self-assembly of Monolayers of Mixtures of Particles" with Prof. Pushpendra Singh and Prof. Ian Fischer. Rajasekhar Tripuraneni spoke about "Real-time measurement of biaxial modulus of Germanium anodes for li-ion batteries" with Prof. Siva Nadimpalli. Shuolun Wang spoke about "Modeling the effect of inelasticity on instabilities in soft dielectrics" with Prof. Shawn A. Chester.
July 2016 *Dr. Shawn Chester(left) and Dr. Anthony Rosato*	Two Mechanical Engineering faculty Dr. Shawn Chester and Dr. Anthony Rosato attended a conference in Seoul, South Korea. The conference was the 12th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM) read more
March 2016 Bo Zhang	Bo Zhang, received the NCE Outstanding Graduate Student Award...read more
Kimberly Lam	STEM Sister: Kimberly Lam is an Ardent Advocate for Women in Engineering....read more
February 2016 Ashley C. Pettesch	Ashley C. Pettesch, Freshman Mechanical Engineering ME student was one of 12 participants from NJIT in the 2016 Johnson and Johnson Engineering Showcase held at the Johnson and Johnson World Headquarters, New Brunswick on February 23rd 2016. read more
February 2016 Shuolun Wang	Johnson & Johnson Research showcase...read more
Noted Energy Expert Speaks on Campus Feb 24, 2016	Josh Taylor, a noted researcher on energy distribution and storage from the University of Toronto, drew an audience of more than 40 engineering students to a lecture on flexible pricing and delivery methods for meeting electricity demand.read more
	Prof. Rosato in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering gave an invited keynote lecture with his colleague Prof. Blackmore (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences) entitled, " Advances in Dynamical Simulation and Analysis of Granular Flow" at the International Conference on Dynamical Systems - Theory and Applications" in Lodz, Poland on December 8th, 2015.
From Left to Right: Prof. Siva Nadimpalli, Fangda Cui, Prof. Shawn Chester, and Rajasekhar Tripuraneni	Three Mechanical Engineering faculty and two graduate students presented their research at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2015 Conference read more
From Left: Harsh K. Patel, Edison Amah, Naga A. Musunuri and Dr. Ian Fischer	Two Mechanical and Industrial Engineering faculty and Three students attended the 68th Annual Meeting of American Physical Society...read more
October 13, 2015 Karlas Madera, Francesca DeFilippis and Prof. Robert Montanari	NJIT offers students many opportunities to travel abroad -- to see the world -- and to acquire an international understanding.read more
From left: Sevilay onal, Sharareh Dehkordi, Babak Hoseini and Jingran Zhang	A team of four Industrial Engineering Ph.D. students accompanied by faculty members participated in the 2015 FORMS Annual Meeting....read more
Bharath Nunna and Prof. Eon Soo Lee	Dr. Eon Soo Lee gave a presentation on his micro biochip research at the NIH-IEEE 2015 Strategic Conference on ......read more More NJIT News and Features....read more (Nov 2015)
Rajasekhar Tripuraneni	A graduate student from the MIE department received prestigious Haythornthwaite Foundation student travel grant......read more (August 2015)
Prof. Shawn Chester	Prof. Chester recently returned from a conference where he was invited to speak in Tokyo. He was invited to the IWACOM (International Workshop on Advances in Computational Mechanics) held in Tokyo this year. He spoke about his recent work that was NSF funded about Smart Polymer Gels. (Oct 2015)
Prof. Shawn Chester (left) and Prof. Siva Nadimpalli	Two NJIT Faculty from Mechanical Engineering presented their research at the Society of Engineering Science Annual Conference..read more (Oct 2015)
A team took first place in a robotics contest: Kevin Prol (left) Jacob Nieuwenhuis, Steve Greendyk and Jonathan Larrazabal	NJIT Students Win First Place in a Major Robotics Competition....read more
	From Dirt Bikes to Fuel Cells....read more
The SAE Formula car team at NJIT.	Team of Students Will Race a Formula Car....read more (2014)
The Baja SAE team at the Caterpillar Demonstration and Learning Center.	A Team of Engineering Students Participate in Baja Car Contest....read more (June 2014)
Jarius Amar and Tom Zirmirski	ME Students Take Third Place in National Design Contest....read more (2013)