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Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

NJIT's Newark College of Engineering ‘Salute’ Celebrates Excellence Across Alumni, Industry, Philanthropy and Student Achievement

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering brought together alumni, students, faculty, staff and industry partners for its 28th Annual Salute to Engineering Excellence, an evening that celebrated the people and partnerships helping shape the college’s future.Held April 16 at Stone House at Stirling Ridge,...

Dana Knox Research Showcase Highlights Student Research With Real-World Reach

Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
NJIT’s Dana Knox Research Showcase filled the Bloom Wellness and Events Center with student research spanning science, engineering, computing, management and the humanities. With poster presentations, two-minute elevator speeches and Board Day luncheon attendees moving through the event, the showcas...

The Whole System: How an NJIT Engineer Built a Career on Seeing Every Part of the Picture

Monday, April 13th, 2026
When Chris Wunderlich was finishing his final semester at New Jersey Institute of Technology, he had two job offers sitting in front of him. One was from Picatinny Arsenal, the U.S. Army's premier research and manufacturing hub for weapons systems, where he would have gone deep into warhead design. ...

NJIT Hosts David Good High School 3D Printed Bridge Competition, Governor Livingston Takes Gold

Friday, April 10th, 2026
High school students from across the region brought engineering concepts off the page and into practice at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s David Good 3D Printed Bridge Competition, where high school teams were challenged to design, assemble and test 3D-printed bridges under real performance cri...

Producing Leaders, Albert Dorman Honors College Awards Alumni and Students at Annual Reception

Friday, April 10th, 2026
The Albert Dorman Honors College brought together students, alumni, faculty and staff on April 8 for its second annual Alumni Recognition and Dorman Awards Reception, an evening at NJIT’s Highlander Pub that celebrated achievement across generations of the honors college community.Held after the col...

NJIT Business, Engineering Programs Recognized in U.S. News Best Graduate Schools Rankings

Tuesday, April 7th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology graduate programs in business and engineering are again represented in the latest U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings, with several engineering specialties improving their standing and the Martin Tuchman School of Management earning a set of...

Undergrad’s Putnam Score Tops NJIT Records — and His Wildest Dreams

Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
Undergrad Aiden Finley Lim ’29 woke up the morning after participating in the nation’s toughest undergraduate math competition with a number stuck in his head — one that, as it turned out, he would surpass on his way into NJIT record books.Lim, a mechanical engineering major in the Albert Dorman Hon...

Cosmetics Industry Brings Hands-On Lab Work to NJIT Students

Monday, March 23rd, 2026
Chemistry and chemical engineering majors learn to make all kinds of compounds and solutions, but an afternoon focusing on the design and packaging of facial serum was probably a first for them.That’s what happened on March 11 when 50 students gathered in NJIT’s Agile Strategy Lab, with the multipur...

The Aunt Betty Fund Awards Inaugural STEM Scholarships to 3 NJIT Students

Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
A trio of students from New Jersey Institute of Technology have been selected as the inaugural recipients of STEM scholarships from The Aunt Betty Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing the burden of student loans taken on to pay for higher education.The awards follow a competitive selection proces...

Why Do Lithium-ion Batteries Fail? Scientists Find Clues in Microscopic Metal 'Thorns'

Thursday, March 12th, 2026
For the first time, scientists have observed how tiny metal "thorns" called dendrites sprout inside lithium-ion batteries, which can cause the batteries to short-circuit. Their findings, published Mar. 12 in the journal Science, shed light on previously unknown mechanical properties of lithium dendr...