Alumni News

For the first time since joining the league on July 1, 2020, the NJIT women's soccer team has advanced to the America East Tournament. 2021 AMERICA EAST TOURNAMENT Matchup: No. 3 NJIT vs No. 6 New Hampshire Date/Time: Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 @ 1 p.m. Watch: ESPN+ | Play by Play: Jason Guerette  America East Women's Soccer Quarterfinal Ticket Prices General Admission Adult - $10 General Admission Youth 12U - $5 America East Students w/ ID - $2

Andressa Marangon, a senior electrical and computer engineering major at New Jersey Institute of Technology, won a $1,000 scholarship from the IEEE Electron Devices Society for her role in improving the brightness and power consumption of blue LEDs that technologically lag behind their red and green cousins. That might not affect your iPhone or TV anytime soon, she said, but it's important for applications such as healthcare products and industrial machinery.

New Jersey Institute of Technology is among the Best Global Universities identified by U.S. News and World Report in its eighth edition of the annual ranking.

The Highlanders are still alive. In a Senior Day home finale with major America East tournament implications, the NJIT women's soccer team earned a hard fought 1-0 overtime victory over the UAlbany Great Danes Sunday afternoon at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium.

Sanchoy Das recalls his first jaw-dropping view of an Amazon fulfillment warehouse in 2013. The word “explosive” came to mind. Gone were the single-product sections where boxes of diapers and paper towels were stacked next to each other in neat rows. Instead, these products were dispersed throughout the building in hundreds of different locations, tucked into bins with unrelated items such as ketchup and motor oil.

Organized by AIA New York, Pratt Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design, NJIT’s Hillier School of Architecture, and SOM, AIA New York and the Center for Architecture at 536 LaGuardia Place New York, are hosting Wast(ED): Living with Trash on Tuesday Oct 26th from 3-8pm. The two panels, From "Dumps to Density" and "From Recycling to Upcycling" will be moderated by Hillier College Dean Branko Kolarevic.

After eight years of development, the humanoid robot named TOCABI (Torque Controlled compliAnt BIped) is finally completed, making its debut at the international ANA AVATAR XPRIZE competition. 

Sometimes the road less traveled can lead to the most fertile grounds. Michael Rodriguez’s road led him to an internship, NJIT, construction management and back. College and a career don’t always follow neatly one after the other for him and for many NJIT students. 

Ludvik Alkhoury is a Ph.D. candidate in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Alkhoury works under the advisement of Professor Moshe Kam, Dean of Newark College of Engineering, in signal and image processing, detection and estimation, physiological signals and signs, and wearable sensors and devices. Alkhoury served as the president of the NJIT’s Graduate Student Association (GSA) for the academic year 2019-2020. He shares his experience.