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Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Robotics Club Hosts Tourney, Qualifies for World Champs Again

Tuesday, March 14th, 2023
NJIT's Robotics Club took home gold at their first competition held here in Newark, besting the competition which included Dartmouth, Rutgers, and Seton Hall universities. The victory qualifies Highlander robotics for the World Championships, April 27-29 in Dallas. The club also qualified in 2020 b...

'Byte Into Hardware' is New Hackathon by Engineering Students, Coming to NJIT this Spring

Monday, February 27th, 2023
A new event on campus, Byte into Hardware, aims to remind us of the joy in exploring hacker culture's physical roots. The hardware hackathon will take place April 1-2 with themes focusing on accessibility and sustainability. Breadboards, microcontrollers and sensors will be everywhere, in contrast ...

Frisbee Golf Robots Will Highlight NJIT Competition on March 4

Friday, January 27th, 2023
The robotics club at New Jersey Institute of Technology is hosting a Vex U competition in March that's open to university teams from around the world. Hosting their own event has been a longtime goal for the current crop of NJIT robotics club members, along with the generation before them. But...

U.S. News & World Report Ranks NJIT Online Programs, Two in the Top 50 Nationally

Tuesday, January 24th, 2023
Two of New Jersey Institute of Technology’s online graduate programs placed among the top 50 in this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings of American universities, with another breaking into the top 100. NJIT was ranked No. 29 for its information technology programs, a two place jump from l...

Romark Logistics Partners with NJII to Accelerate Technology-Driven Operations

Thursday, December 22nd, 2022
Romark Logistics, LLC has partnered with New Jersey Innovation Institute to design the technology-enabled warehouse of the future.  Founded in 1954 and family owned, Romark has established itself as a premier 3PL provider with strategic focus on innovation and technology, including robotics an...

Norma Clayton, NJIT Alumna and Trustee, Elected to Goodyear Board of Directors

Monday, December 5th, 2022
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company announced the election of Norma Clayton ’81, co-vice chair of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Board of Trustees, to its Board of Directors, effective Nov. 28, 2022. "We are very pleased to welcome Norma Clayton to Goodyear's Board of Directors," ...

NJIT Hosts Symposium on Boosting Safety Culture Into Undergraduate Education

Thursday, December 1st, 2022
NJIT and the National Academy of Construction (NAC), with the support from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine hosted a symposium to bring together members from the industry, government and academia to collectively work together to help students become much more productive wh...

Scholarship-winning Student Veterans Talk Serving in the Military and Coming to NJIT

Friday, November 11th, 2022
Three student veterans at NJIT were among the first to be awarded a new scholarship administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. The Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship, named for the long-serving Massachusetts congresswoman and steadfast advocate for veterans, provides up to n...

From NJIT to NASA, Roberto Saenz Wants to Inspire Future Generations with His Story

Thursday, October 27th, 2022
Roberto Saenz, winner of the first-ever Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council (HLLC) scholarship, wants to one day be an administrator at NASA and design his own spacecraft. Saenz, a first generation Mexican-American from Union City, N.J., is majoring in Mechanical Engineering and minoring in Appl...

Goldwater Scholar Creates Real-Time Air Quality Monitoring System to Implement in Newark

Wednesday, August 24th, 2022
Vishva Rana ‘23, a Goldwater Scholar, has always been interested in addressing sustainable issues. The mechanical engineering major, minoring in innovation and entrepreneurship, has been working on a real-time air quality monitoring system and hopes to see it implemented in Newark’s Ironbound. Last...