ENGINE
Engineering National Graduate Institutional Name Exchange

Join ENGINE!
We are accepting new members for the 2026 ENGINE cycle. To join and receive access to a database of over 15,000 academically elite engineering undergraduate students interested in graduate school, contact Mike Nazareth, ENGINE manager and founder. The 2026 ENGINE timeline has been updated for this cycle.

Anna England Joins the ENGINE Team

Updated ENGINE Member Institution Participation Agreements
The ENGINE Member Institution Participation Agreement has been updated to reflect changes since the program began in 2015. New ENGINE member institutions are required to use the new ENGINE contract. Returning ENGINE member institutions are asked to sign the new contract in either the 2026 or 2027 ENGINE cycle.

Mike Nazareth, ENGINE Founder and Manager, wins 2025 NAGAP Promotion of Excellence Award
The National Association for Graduate Admissions Professionals (NAGAP) presents the Promotion of Excellence Award to “an individual or team that has developed or implemented methodology (e.g., processes, policies, events, technologies) demonstrating best practices, creativity and/or innovation in graduate enrollment management that could serve as a model across the GEM profession”. Mike was nominated for this ward by Graduate Enrollment Management colleagues for the creation of ENGINE and was honored at the NAGAP national conference in San Francisco in April 2025.

Additional Upload/Download Method for 2026
ENGINE is pleased to announce that Dropbox will continue to be an official method of providing and obtaining student data for the 2026 cycle. Click here for instructions on using Dropbox.