News from the School of Engineering

Student's committed advocacy for the disabled stems from her own – often frustrating – experiences following a traumatic brain injury in 2014, when she realized she needed to be a self-advocate.

In this role, Lin will lead the development and management of international graduate and undergraduate engineering initiatives aimed at expanding international visibility and increasing enrollment through strategic partnerships and student-centric programs.  

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has recently granted more than $18 million to 17 universities for projects advancing marine energy that support marine and ocean renewable energy innovation. 

Projects include the electrification of transportation vessels for offshore operations and predicting the presence of North Atlantic right whales near offshore wind farms.

Senior biomedical engineering (BME) major Olivia Colavito’s grandfather Michael Quartana served for two years as a combat medic -- although he never saw combat -- in Ethiopia in the late 1950s. Maribel Vazquez, a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering encouraged Colavito to submit an abstract, with the help of her VA team, to present at the BMES meeting. 

The Rutgers engineer has been named a 2024 National Academy of Inventors Fellow                                    

Rutgers Cyberinfrastructure and AI for Science And Society (CASS) awarded funding to a School of Engineering team led by CBE Professor Rohit Ramachandran for a project involving AI and bio-pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Rohit Ramachandran, a professor in the School of Engineering Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (CBE), has joined the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a program director.

Yogesh Jaluria and Nicole Fahrenfeld are the recipients of SoE's annual awards recognizing the special achievements and contributions of our school’s dedicated faculty members.