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.

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Founded in 1870 and celebrating 140 Years of Innovation, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University TM , lives at the intersection of industry, academics and research.  The University's students, faculty and partners leverage their collective real-world experience and culture of innovation, research and entrepreneurship to confront global challenges in engineering, science, systems and technology management.

Based in Hoboken, N.J. and with a location in Washington, D.C., Stevens offers baccalaureate, master’s, certificates and doctoral degrees in engineering, the sciences and management, in addition to baccalaureate degrees in business and liberal arts.  Stevens has been recognized by both the US Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security as a National Center of Excellence in the areas of systems engineering and port security research. The University has a total enrollment of more than 2,200 undergraduate and 3,700 graduate students with almost 450 faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America as well as strategic partnerships with industry leaders, governments and other universities around the world.  Additional information may be obtained at www.stevens.edu and www.stevens.edu/press.