Department of Biomedical Engineering

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...

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...

Every year, hundreds of high school and college students throughout the Garden State apply for the honor to be a Governor’s STEM Scholar. Slots are limited and the competition is steep. For 2019, three Highlanders have been chosen to wear the mantle: Ricardo Garcia, Yasmine Ghattas and Kevin Pemberthy. They and the other scholars are spending this academic year attending STEM conferences and field trips, participating in team-based research projects, and learning from and networking with New Jersey STEM professionals, state policymakers, academic institutions and research organizations...

In the 1990s, Jack Kevorkian controversially brought the issue of physician-assisted dying to the forefront of a conversation at the crossroads of medicine, technology, law and morality — known as bioethics.  That conversation has only become more complex today, as scientific advances continue to create new challenges for bioethicists considering the consequences of technology and how it may reshape medicine and society. Some countries have legalized or are now considering legalizing forms of physician-assisted dying for patients seeking to avoid technological death. The rise of new...