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 14,000 academically elite engineering undergraduate students interested in graduate school, contact Mike Nazareth, ENGINE manager and founder. See the updated timeline for the 2026 ENGINE cycle here.

Anna England Joins the ENGINE Team
Anna England, Coordinator of Graduate Recruiting and Undergraduate Research, will join the ENGINE team starting March 27, 2026. Contact Anna with questions regarding new Gatorlink IDs and passwords, UF identification numbers, and payment confirmations.

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 award by Graduate Enrollment Management colleagues for the creation of ENGINE and was honored at the NAGAP national conference in San Francisco in April 2025. Mike will present a session on ENGINE at the 2026 NAGAP GEM Summit in Baltimore, Maryland on Friday, April 10, 2026.

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.