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Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Senior Success: EOP Students Prepare for Grad School and Great Jobs

Monday, May 20th, 2019
When NJIT holds its 103rd Commencement May 21, more than 100 Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) seniors will officially move on from their undergraduate study to begin the next chapter in their lives. While their plans after EOP may differ, the four years they’ve shared in the program provided th...

Tech Entrepreneur Robert Tarantino '90 Has Been Part of NJIT's Innovation Ecosystem for 30 Years

Monday, April 22nd, 2019
Before his freshman year had even begun, Robert Tarantino ’90 had embarked on more professional ventures than many people do in a lifetime: computer systems manager, programmer, journeyman tool and die maker and software developer. But in founding his high-tech start-up, New Jersey Precision T...

NJIT to Confer Honorary Doctorates at 103rd Commencement Exercises May 21, 2019

Thursday, April 11th, 2019
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy to Deliver 2019 Commencement Address and Receive Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will award more than 3,000 baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral degrees at the 103rd Commencement exercises May 21, 2019, and May 23, 2019, at...

Newark College of Engineering Celebrates a Century's Worth of Ties That Bind

Thursday, April 11th, 2019
For the latest in a series of eloquent centennial-year tributes to its traditions and people, a record crowd of more than 250 flocked to Newark College of Engineering’s 21st annual Salute to Engineering Excellence, held last night at the Park Avenue Club in Florham Park. “What we’ve achieved at NJI...

NJIT Aero Team Designs, Builds and Flies Their Radio Controlled Plane

Friday, March 22nd, 2019
The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Aero Team at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is an organization which is dedicated in promoting opportunities for students to apply their knowledge to aerospace projects outside of the classroom. SAE annually hosts an international Aero Desig...

NJIT Named a Top Graduate School for Engineering by U.S. News & World Report

Thursday, March 14th, 2019
U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 rankings for the nation’s top graduate schools are in, and New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been ranked No. 89 for its graduate degree program in engineering — marking the third consecutive year that the university has been listed among the Top 100. T...

From Moon Landings to Drone Competitions, NJIT Celebrates 100 Years of Engineering

Monday, March 4th, 2019
Beginning this month, Newark College of Engineering (NCE) will kick off a year-long celebration of its 100th anniversary with a series of awards ceremonies, galas, historical tributes and engineering competitions to commemorate the school’s “Century of Public Service Through Engineering,” ...

First-Gen College Student Makes His Mark

Monday, February 25th, 2019
Nick Fuentes-Zuluaga was just 2 years old when he and his parents left their home in Bogota, Colombia, and migrated to the United States. They settled in Rockaway, N.J., with the aid of his aunt in nearby Parsippany and began a new life, far from the mounting violence triggered by their native count...

Standout Engineering Undergrads Compete in NJIT's "NCE First-Year Showcase"

Tuesday, February 19th, 2019
On Friday, February 15, six teams of exemplary students from NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering (NCE) put their outstanding engineering design research on display at this year’s “NCE First-Year Showcase” competition.  The competition’s student-teams — representing each of the college’s depar...

Biosensor Co-Inventor Bharath Nunna Ph.D. '18 Joins Organ-on-a-Chip Research Team at Harvard Med

Thursday, January 31st, 2019
The difficulty in spotting minute amounts of disease circulating in the bloodstream has proven a stumbling block in the detection and treatment of cancers that advance stealthily with few symptoms. With a novel electrochemical biosensing device that identifies the tiniest signals these biomarkers em...