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Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Leader of the House Sees STEM in Action at NJIT

Thursday, April 28th, 2022
The Assistant Speaker of the House of Representatives visited New Jersey Institute of Technology to get a closer look at how STEM education and research fuels the economic mobility of the city, region and country. U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark, D-MA-05, toured NJIT’s Makerspace — the largest in the stat...

Mark Pothen, Mechanical Engineer, Working in Health Care

Monday, April 25th, 2022
Techies call it the hands-on imperative — that the best learning is by doing — and the concept is something Mark Pothen, a mechanical engineering major, takes to heart. Pothen worked part-time this academic year as a business analyst for health care startup Axuall Inc., where he'll become an associa...

NJIT Baseball Highlighted by Likely Draft Pick Marcano and MLB's Leiter Jr.

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
NJIT Highlander baseball had an exciting spring, with star player Julio Marcano putting his name among the school home run record books, and team alumnus Mark Leiter Jr. making it back to the majors for the Chicago Cubs. Marcano, a second baseman and outfielder, blasted his 23rd career homer Ma...

NJIT Ranked Top 100 Engineering Grad School by US News & World Report

Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
U.S. News & World Report has released its 2023 rankings for the nation’s top graduate schools, with NJIT ranked among the best for graduate degree programs in engineering. The university slots in this year at No. 86 — up two positions from the prior year and 25 positions in the past eight years ...

Two NJIT Undergraduate Researchers Awarded Goldwater Scholarships

Monday, March 28th, 2022
From an estimated pool of over 5,000 college sophomores and juniors, two NJIT students — Simone Bishara and Vishva Rana, both Albert Dorman Honors College scholars — have been named Goldwater Scholars this year by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The scholarshi...

US News and World Report Ranks NJIT Online Programs Top 100 Nationally, Top 3 Statewide

Tuesday, January 25th, 2022
Three of NJIT's online graduate programs placed among the top 100 in this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings of American universities, and in the top three for New Jersey institutions. More colleges and universities than ever before began offering distance learning options in response to C...

Eric Sherman Named America East Winter Presidential Scholar Athlete

Friday, December 24th, 2021
NJIT men's lacrosse redshirt junior Eric Sherman has been named one of nine America East Winter Presidential Scholar Athletes, the conference announced Wednesday afternoon. Sherman, a Cherry Hill native and Mechanical Engineering major with a 3.85 GPA., joined Faith Bonett (New Hampshire ...

Solid Mechanics Expert Wins Coveted 'Young Investigator' Award

Thursday, December 16th, 2021
NJIT Associate Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Shawn Chester won the coveted Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), which recognizes special achievement in applied mechanics for researchers under the age of 41. Chester...

NJIT Student Bottle Rockets Soar Where No Highlander Has Gone Before

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021
Mibrar Reza and Adam Tracy — following the spirit of Verne, von Braun, NASA and Musk — were the first-place winners of this semester's inaugural NJIT Makerspace Soda Bottle Rocket Competition, charting unexplored regions of Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium with water-powered flights of 227 and 25...

Turbocharging the Internet Fulfillment Revolution

Monday, October 25th, 2021
Sanchoy Das recalls his first jaw-dropping view of an Amazon fulfillment warehouse in 2013. The word “explosive” came to mind. Gone were the single-product sections where boxes of diapers and paper towels were stacked next to each other in neat rows. Instead, these products were dispersed throug...