Outstanding Stevens student earns spot in USA Today list

HOBOKEN, N.J. — A senior at Stevens Institute of Technology recently was selected for the honorable mention list for USA Today newspaper’s "All-USA College Academic Team."

Michael Quinn, of East Hanover, N.J., was one of five students nominated for the team by Stevens. He was the only student from New Jersey who earned a place in USA Today’s 40-member honorable mention list. Quinn is the son of Thomas and Dolores Quinn of East Hanover.

Nominees for the All-USA Academic Team were outstanding full-time undergraduate students from across the nation. Twenty nominees were selected for the academic team itself, which was publicized in the newspaper Feb. 17.

This semester, Quinn is completing both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering, earning both degrees in five years — an outstanding achievement in itself. Remarkably, he also has maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point average and has been involved with cooperative education, which automatically extends a student’s study duration.

As part of the nomination process, he submitted information to USA Today judges about his recent honors and awards, various activities on campus and in the community, and internships and research. He also wrote an essay about how he recently created a complex welding design process during his work as a cooperative education student at Ashland Chemical Company.

Quinn has been awarded two highly competitive academic scholarships: The New York Rubber Group Scholarship and the North Jersey Section American Society of Mechanical Engineers Scholarship. In 1996, he received Stevens’ top academic achievement award for sophomores and juniors in the mechanical engineering curriculum.

He is a member of Chi Phi Fraternity at Stevens and the national engineering honor society Tau Beta Pi, among his many activities. In 1998, he worked on a research project for Los Alamos National Laboratories under a professor’s guidance at Stevens.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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