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Zhimin Xi
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Verified on an official Rutgers pageZhimin Xi | Rutgers Organizational LeadershipZhimin Xi | Rutgers Graduate School
Zhimin Xi is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in Rutgers Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Teaching snapshot
4.31of 5
Teaching effectiveness
21 course evaluations
▲ 0.01 vs department (4.30)
Courses taught
13
540:550, 540:800
Teaching Fall 2026
8 courses
Special Problems in Industrial Engineering, Matriculation Contd
Course evaluations
21
Course quality 4.23 / 5
Research
Active
Teaching here since Fall 2025
What their class is like
From Rutgers course evaluations (SIRS). The marker on each bar shows the department average.
Teaching effectiveness4.31
21 evaluations
Overall course quality4.23
21 evaluations
Courses they teach
13 courses in the Rutgers schedule, first seen Fall 2025.
- 540:550Fall 2026Special Problems in Industrial Engineering
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Teaching in this course5.002 offerings evaluated
- 540:594Risk Analy & Mitiga
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Teaching in this course4.517 offerings evaluated
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Research
What they work on, and where undergraduates can get involved.
His work focuses on design for reliability, including reliable autonomous vehicles and robots, lithium-ion batteries, and additive manufacturing.
NSF grants
- I-Corps: Affordable and Reliable Autonomous Wheelchair2023–2024 · $50k
Background
Education and career, from official sources.
- B.S. and M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering/Reliability Engineering, University of Maryland–College Park
- 2016 DARPA Young Faculty Award
- 2021 ASME Design Automation Young Investigator Award
What students say
Public student discussion, summarized. Read it alongside the evaluations above.
RateMyProfessors · 1.4 / 5 from 5 ratings (matched by name only)
Difficulty 2.8 / 5 · 0% would take again. This match uses the name alone, so it may describe someone else with the same name.
Sources
(6)
- ScheduleScarlet Sync schedule data
- StudentsRutgers SIRS
- GrantNSF Award Search
- OfficialZhimin Xi | Rutgers Organizational Leadership
- OfficialZhimin Xi | Rutgers Graduate School
- StudentsRateMyProfessors (name match)
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