Department biomedical engineering

Parth Agrawal, a 2021 biomedical engineering graduate and Albert Dorman Honors scholar, was accepted to the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. But he’s not going – right away, at least. He deferred admission for a two-year fellowship with Venture For America, a nonprofit organization that trains recent college graduates to work in startups in cities across the country.

3.49 is not a baseball ERA, basketball steals per game, volleyball block average, or any other athletic statistic measured of the Highlanders this spring semester. Rather, it is their impressive cumulative grade point average.

This semester marks the 25th straight that Highlander student athletes have held above a 3.0 GPA—a streak extending over 12 years. 

Caption: Senior Vice Provost for Research Atam Dhawan (far left) and Chair of the Board of Overseers awards committee Emil Herkert (far right) with the 2020 Excellence in Research award winners, (left to right) Bryan Pfister, chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering (standing in for Namas Chandra) and Lou Kondic.

Namas Chandra, a biomedical engineer who develops new ways to understand and prevent traumatic brain injuries, and Lou Kondic, an expert in fluid dynamics and pioneer in the growing thin film sector, are the winners of the Board of Overseers (BOO

New Jersey Institute of Technology is one of the nation’s best colleges for students seeking a superb education with great career preparation at an affordable price, according to The Princeton Review, an honor held since 2018. NJIT ranked No. 39 as a Best Value College and No. 10 for Best Career Placement among public colleges and universities.

U.S. News & World Report has released its 2022 rankings for the nation’s top graduate schools, with NJIT ranked among the best for graduate degree programs in engineering. The university slots in this year at No. 88 — up 23 positions in the past seven years — and has been included on the distinguished list since 2003. The 2022 rankings mark the sixth consecutive year NJIT has appeared in the top 100.

High-tech hip and knee implants that not only return immobile people to walking, but to the tennis court. 3D printed models of patients’ anatomy that allow physicians to plan and practice complex operations in advance. Novel peptide-based hydrogels, also bioprinted, that are injected, self-reassemble in tissue spaces and deliver drugs and other small cargo over days and months. Looking ahead, but perhaps not too far, fully functional, human-scale tissues and organs that are capable of replacing failed organs.

NJIT students have broken three university records so far this year in pursuit of Fulbright scholarships, submitting a historic high of 11 applications, followed by another milestone achievement – the elevation of six to the semifinal round, including a first-ever candidate for study in the U.K., one of the most competitive countries.

Four of NJIT's online graduate programs placed among the top 100 in this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings of American universities.

While studying online became an important academic offering in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, NJIT has long offered both fully online and partial, or hybrid, online degree programs as part of the university’s vision of a global campus.

Chang Yaramothu '13H MS '14 Ph.D. '17, a biomedical engineer who develops diagnostic and therapeutic devices for concussion-related vision disorders, was named a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry just two months after joining the NJIT faculty as an assistant professor of engineering technology.