Among the two technologies singled out by President Barack Obama during his 2016 Rutgers commencement address as among those achievements that have lifted the university “to heights its founders could not have imagined,” were those involving the talent and creativity of School of Engineering students.
“This is a place where you 3D-print prosthetic hands for children, and devise rooftop wind arrays that can power entire office buildings with clean, renewable energy,” the president said.
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May 2016
May 13, 2016
"In recognition of your outstanding academic record at Rutgers University, I am pleased to announce that you will be one of a select group of graduating seniors who will be inducted this year into the Matthew Leydt Society." So read the letter Varun Arvind received from Rutgers President Robert Barchi. Named for the university's first graduate, in 1774, from what was then Queens's College, the Society was established last year to honor the university's top graduates from Rutgers–New Brunswick, commencing with the class of 2015.
May 13, 2016
Commencement day for the School of Engineering’s 822 undergraduate and 370 graduate students began memorably on Sunday, May 15, 2016 in High Point Solutions Stadium with President Barack Obama presiding over the university’s 250th graduation ceremonies. Later that afternoon, the School of Engineering Class of 2016 also celebrated with a convocation ceremony at the Louis Brown Athletic Center (RAC) that included undergraduate students from the school’s nine departments receiving their degrees from department chairs and the school's dean.
May 13, 2016
Creating Medical Devices to Help People, Families
Rutgers senior Brooke McClarren, a biomedical engineering major, will pursue a master’s degree this fall
When she was younger, Brooke McClarren looked up to her father, a systems engineer, who helped care for elderly, largely homebound neighbors who needed a helping hand in her hometown of Bridgewater.
McClarren, a senior biomedical engineering major at Rutgers, recalls visiting them with her dad when she was 11.
May 9, 2016
Donors, alumni, faculty, administrators, and friends turned out on a blustery spring day to commemorate the groundbreaking of Richard Weeks Hall of Engineering on the Rutgers School of Engineering campus. Despite the rain and wind, those present at the May 6, 2016 event celebrated as engineering dean Tom Farris, Rutgers President Robert Barchi, Rutgers-New Brunswick chancellor Dick Edwards, and Richard N. Weeks planted shovels in the Earth and symbolically turned over a new era for the School of Engineering and an important step in moving the school forward.
May 2, 2016
Interactive flytrap on display at the United States Botanic Garden in Washington
Venus flytraps are fascinating, creepy carnivores. They literally trap flies and other insects between two toothy, hairy leaves and then digest bug nutrients.
Taking cues from nature, a team of Rutgers mechanical engineering students has built an interactive robotic venus flytrap that’s now on display at the United States Botanic Garden in Washington.
April 2016
April 14, 2016
Following a five-year partnership with Rutgers University's Engineering Research Center for Structured Organic Particulate Systems (C-SOPS) and the University of Puerto Rico, Janssen Supply Chain has been granted approval by the U.S.
April 14, 2016
“As a banker, I enjoy being able to combine engineering and finance. I can still talk the tech talk.”
April 6, 2016
In a recently released report on priority areas in advanced manufacturing by President Obama's National Science and Technology Council, continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing as identified as one of five "Manufacturing Technology Areas of Emerging Priority." Continuous manufacturing for pharmaceuticals has been pioneered at Rutgers by Professors Fernando Muzzio and Marianthi Ierapetritou of the Department of Chemi
March 2016
March 18, 2016
Inter-school program is elevating research between Rutgers Engineering and Biomedical and Health Sciences, strengthening ties, creating cross-disciplinary teams, and seeding new ideas.
Prabhas V. Moghe, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Research Director, School of Engineering–Biomedical and Health Sciences Alliances & Partnerships
Q: Tell us about your new role as research director.