The Student Chapter of ASME has been active at NCE for more than 75 years. It is the oldest on-campus professional society. We welcome students from all courses of study at the university and are committed to advancing the professions of engineering and applied science in every aspect of modern society. We believe that NJIT’s student section of ASME is not only the oldest but by far the most active and successful on campus.

(pictured: Professor Harry Kountouras, ASME Faculty Advisor)

A major activity of the ASME student section is participation in the annual Regional Student Conference (RSC). NJIT has had the largest number of students attending the RSC for the last eight years.  We have competed in the four major events  (The National Design Contest, The Old Guard Oral Presentations, The Old Guard Technical Poster Contest and The Ingersoll-Rand Contest) during those eight years with wonderful results.

From 1994 to 1997, NJIT won an unprecedented four consecutive first places in the Design Contest at the RSC.  We represented Region II at the IMECE in Chicago in 1994, in San Francisco in 1995, in Atlanta in 1996 and in Dallas in 1997.  With second place finishes in 1998 and  1999,   NJIT again returned to the winners circle in 2000, 2002 and 2004.  Our proud team represented Region II at the 2002 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) in New Orleans and the 2004 IMECE in Anaheim, California. 

The 2000 RSC was hosted by NJIT and attracted more than 200 students, faculty and guests from Region II.  The opening remarks were delivered by recently retired NJIT President Saul Fenster.  NJIT made history at the RSC by being the first university in Region II to win ALL FOUR major contests: The National Design Contest, The Old Guard Oral Presentation, The Old Guard Technical Poster Contest and the Ingersoll-Rand Contest.  Our cumulative score in the 2000 Ingersoll-Rand Contest (1622 points) was also good enough for a third place finish in the National Inter-Regional Contest.

Remarkably, at the 2002 RSC held at Stevens Institute of Technology, NJIT again made history in Region II by being the first university to take first, second and third places in the National Design Contest.

Even more remarkable than that, NJIT repeated history one more time by again taking First, Second and Third Places at the 2004 RSC held at the City College of New York. 

Check out the ASME web site for more information on design competitions, chapter meetings, events, plus a lot of information on what's going on in the world of Mechanical Engineering!