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Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Engineering Student Lands J&J Co-op, Named NJIT's Intern of the Year

Wednesday, April 29th, 2020
When Jeremy Bedient was navigating Career Development Services’ (CDS) Spring 2019 Career Fair, seeking a co-op with Johnson & Johnson was nowhere on his radar. But at the moment he passed by the company’s supply-chain booth and saw there was no line, he figured “why not” and took advantage of th...

Meeting the Demand: Honors Scholars Produce Hundreds of Personal Protective Equipment

Thursday, April 9th, 2020
It all started with an email sent by NJIT/Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) alumnus, Biren Bhatt, M.D., to Louis Hamilton, ADHC dean, as the coronavirus pandemic was spreading with lightning speed throughout the New York-New Jersey area. Dr. Bhatt, an attending emergency physician at Hackensack Me...

NJIT Robotics Club Qualifies for Vex World Championships Tournament

Thursday, March 12th, 2020
NJIT's robotics club just stamped its ticket to the world championships tournament of a top-level league, despite competing as underdogs this season after all of its top members graduated last year. Chief engineer Yichao Zhang and lead programmer Dale Nacianceno — the former a senior, the latt...

Industrial Engineering Grad's Journey in STEM Takes Her to Facebook

Tuesday, March 10th, 2020
By the end of this month, Rukayat Balogun will be working at Facebook as a site logistics analyst, overseeing staff that maintain the servers and the facility, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. She will be located just outside of Atlanta for this new position, which came her way last ...

Makerspace Evolving With More Room, Additional Labs, New Training

Wednesday, February 12th, 2020
Changes are afoot in the campus makerspace, with plans coming together for adding new equipment and laboratories, provisioning the 10,000-square-foot expansion and developing more kinds of training. The main space opened in December 2017, replacing an older facility known at various times as Campus...

Princeton Review Ranks NJIT Among Top Schools with 'the Best ROI'

Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
New Jersey Institute of Technology is one of the nation’s best colleges for students seeking a superb education with great career preparation and at an affordable price, according to The Princeton Review®. The education services company profiles NJIT in the recently published 2020 edition of its an...

Honors Team Taps Inventive Skills to Help Handi-capable Dancer

Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
The call was put out to NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) this past spring and nine Dorman Scholars answered it. Their charge was to design and construct a tap-dance board for a handi-capable wheelchair user — a patient at Mount Sinai Health System in Manhattan who would be participating al...

Tech Treatment: NJIT Re-engineering Team Helps Local Emergency Department

Wednesday, October 30th, 2019
Saint Barnabas Medical Center (SBMC) in Livingston, N.J., is no stranger to accolades. Among other notable rankings, the acute-care teaching hospital has received 16 A ratings in a row from the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, and is one of less than 41 hospitals in the country to achieve this consis...

Top 100 National Intern Elijah Mathew Talks Summer with Stryker

Thursday, September 19th, 2019
Mechanical engineering major, Elijah Mathew, spent his summer interning with Stryker. Through NJIT's career fair, Elijah found the operations intern position and has earned a spot on the Top 100 Intern list on nationalinternday.com.  

The Makerspace at NJIT Wins $125,000 in a U.S. Small Business Administration Competition

Friday, August 23rd, 2019
The Makerspace at NJIT, New Jersey Institute of Technology’s training-focused, rapid prototyping facility, is the winner of a $125,000 award from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to advance careers in advanced manufacturing. NJIT is one of 12 winners of the SBA’s MaTCH Pilot Competition...