Otto H. York Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

NJIT Professor Elevates CT Scan Lab Work to Realm of Visual Art

Monday, March 25, 2019
For most, the stark black and white images produced through computed tomography (CT) may not ignite much imagination beyond the routine bone scans that we'd see at the radiologist's lab. However, for NJIT Assistant Professor of Architecture and Design, Mathew Schwartz, the technology has become the creative medium by which he is building a library of digital art, steeped in the niche field of x-ray photography. At NJIT’s York Center Laboratory, Schwartz’s ongoing work is proof that artistic inspiration can strike anytime, anywhere. Using the lab’s advanced imaging equipment, Schwartz is...

NJIT Named a Top Graduate School for Engineering by U.S. News & World Report

Thursday, March 14, 2019
U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 rankings for the nation’s top graduate schools are in, and New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been ranked No. 89 for its graduate degree program in engineering — marking the third consecutive year that the university has been listed among the Top 100. This year, NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering is also celebrating its 100th anniversary of public service through engineering. Fadi P. Deek, NJIT provost and senior executive vice president, said, “Many factors played a role in NJIT’s top ranking for graduate engineering programs. Apart from...

Centennial Celebrations: Newark College of Engineering Inducts 11 into its Hall of Fame

Tuesday, March 12, 2019
A poet, a general and a judge, all engineers by training with diverse, illustrious careers to follow, were among the 11 Newark College of Engineering (NCE) graduates recently inducted into the NCE 100, the alumni hall of fame established this year as part of the College’s celebration of its centennial. “The range of what our graduates have done is very wide,” noted NCE Dean Moshe Kam, at a ceremony in Eberhardt Hall, the campus’s oldest building, that touched on NCE’s origins in the industrial age and the confident role its graduates currently play in shaping the new, technologically...

Chemical Engineering Major Is NJIT's Intern of the Year

Monday, March 11, 2019
Daniel Young, a junior studying chemical engineering, has been declared Intern of the Year by Career Development Services (CDS) at NJIT. CDS held its second annual Interns of NJIT contest this past fall and selected Young in January. In addition to the title, he has received a $500 cash prize that will go toward his tuition. “Our contest selection committee unanimously chose Daniel as the winner of the contest based on the enthusiasm he showed in his testimonial and an exceptional letter of recommendation from his supervisor at L’Oréal, who described him as ‘a true team player who...

From Moon Landings to Drone Competitions, NJIT Celebrates 100 Years of Engineering

Monday, March 4, 2019
Beginning this month, Newark College of Engineering (NCE) will kick off a year-long celebration of its 100th anniversary with a series of awards ceremonies, galas, historical tributes and engineering competitions to commemorate the school’s “Century of Public Service Through Engineering,” while inspiring NCE students to pursue new feats in engineering design and technological wizardry. There will be inspiration aplenty as the campus learns more over the course of the year about storied alumni such as Beatrice Hicks ’39, designer of a seminal innovation in gas sensor technology...

Laurent Simon, Engineer and Revered Mentor, is Called a Modern-Day Technology Leader

Thursday, February 28, 2019
Laurent Simon, vice provost for undergraduate studies, was recently named a “Modern-Day Technology Leader” at the 33rd annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Global Competitiveness Conference in Washington, D.C. The award recognizes researchers, educators and entrepreneurs who are making a broad impact on the technology sector. Simon, an associate professor of chemical engineering, researches new methods to improve the delivery of controlled-release drug therapies.   “A major challenge in the pharmaceutical...

Standout Engineering Undergrads Compete in NJIT's "NCE First-Year Showcase"

Tuesday, February 19, 2019
On Friday, February 15, six teams of exemplary students from NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering (NCE) put their outstanding engineering design research on display at this year’s “NCE First-Year Showcase” competition.  The competition’s student-teams — representing each of the college’s departments — were selected to present their research based on standout first-year academic performances and projects that they conceived of during their Fundamentals of Engineering Design 101 (FED 101) courses, taken this past Fall 2018 semester.  At the event, before an audience of faculty,...

NJIT's Sagnik Basuray is Named a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors

Monday, February 11, 2019
Sagnik Basuray, an assistant professor of chemical engineering who develops novel sensors, diagnostic devices and drug delivery systems, has been named a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Basuray is among 66 academic inventors elected to the inaugural class of NAI Senior Members, a group that includes active faculty, scientists and administrators with success in patents, licensing and commercialization. Together, these new members represent 37 research universities and government and nonprofit research institutes, and are named inventors on more than 1,100 issued U....

Physicist Ken Chin Wins an Edison Patent Award for Next-Generation Solar Cell Technology

Friday, November 2, 2018
Physicist Ken Chin, a scientist, author and inventor, received a Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award last night from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey for his work on a promising new method for advancing sustainable energy production: next-generation solar cells. Chin focuses on improving the performance and efficiency of thin-film solar cells based on cadmium telluride (CdTe), which are potentially a lower-cost alternative to silicon because they require fewer natural resources to produce electricity and take up much less space on buildings. “What we’re interested in is...

NJIT's Rajesh Davé is Elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering

Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Rajesh Davé, a problem-driven inventor whose groundbreaking methods for re-engineering tiny particles have fueled advances in such diverse areas as weapons safety and drug delivery systems, has been named a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). Drawing on physics, chemistry and engineering, Davé’s research into the behavior of particles is fundamental and his methods for adapting them, widely applicable. For example, by shaking granular or particulate materials along with nanomaterials, which form a thin coating around them, he is able to optimize their flow,...

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