During the fall of 2025, according to Mojib Saei, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering, in an interview with WNEP, the program had outgrown its original location. Because of the number of new students and their projects, as well as recently acquired equipment, the program needed additional space.
Most of the projects completed in the facilities are for local nonprofits or organizations, in addition to academic work. Now, the additional space and equipment will provide the students with more resources to bring about positive change, along with healing, safety, and hope to the community, Rev. Bret Stockdale, S.J., University chaplain, said in his opening blessing.
“We come before you with hearts full of gratitude for the calling to serve through engineering. Grant your students the clarity to see the best solutions, the strength to persevere through challenges, the wisdom to make decisions that are safe, ethical and beneficial, and the courage to innovate with faith and integrity,” Father Stockdale said.
Cassidy Lowman ’27, Dauphin, is a communications major with a political science minor at Scranton.