Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Princeton Review Gives NJIT High Marks for Value and Career Placement

Wednesday, April 26, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology maintains its national reputation for return on investment and career placement in 2023 rankings from The Princeton Review. Among public schools, The Princeton Review ranked NJIT No. 11 on its list of the Top 20 for Best Career Placement and No. 35 on its list of the Top 50 Best Value Colleges.  Also, for the sixth straight year, NJIT is featured on The Princeton Review’s master list of Best Value Colleges, a select group of 209 culled from a survey of more than 650 colleges and universities in the U.S. The honorees include 135 private schools and...

2 NJIT Grad Programs Rank Top 100 in US News & World Report

Tuesday, April 25, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology further burnishes its reputation in engineering and computer science in the latest graduate studies rankings from U.S. News & World Report. NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering (NCE) now ranks No. 77 on the publication’s list of the Best Engineering Schools in the U.S. — up eight notches from last year. It’s the eighth consecutive year that NCE has made the top 100. “NJIT’s continued rise in the top 100 reflects our intentional investment in hiring first-rate faculty, building and maintaining world-class research facilities and attracting the...

Newark College of Engineering Reaches a Milestone at 'Salute' Celebration

Tuesday, April 25, 2023
NJIT’s largest and oldest college invited students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends to join together for NCE’s 25th Salute to Engineering Excellence celebration. The annual event honors the contributions and impact of the NCE community and features the college’s upcoming star students, dedicated faculty and staff, impactful alumni and industry partners. NCE Dean Moshe Kam’s message set the tone for the evening, affirming the engineering college’s dedication to a diverse student body and faculty makeup in light of the public discourse surrounding diversity initiatives in education....

Rami Rashid - ECE PhD Student of the Month - April 2023

Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Rami Rashid is a Ph.D. candidate in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He is working under the advisement of Professor Abdi. He also earned his master's from ECE-NJIT in 2020, in which he received the 2020 ECE Top Performers Fellowship. He has been a teaching assistant in the ECE department at NJIT; a research assistant at the Elisha Yegal Bar-Ness Center for Wireless Information Processing (CWiP) at NJIT. His research focuses on underwater signal processing for wireless communication and...

NJIT Names John Pelesko Provost and SVP for Academic Affairs

Monday, March 20, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has selected John Pelesko to serve as its next provost and senior vice president for academic affairs after a nationwide search. Pelesko, currently the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Delaware (UD), will start on Aug. 1. Pelesko, an NJIT alumnus who earned a Ph.D. in mathematical sciences from the university, will seek to enhance NJIT’s educational programs and grow its research portfolio through federal, state and industry partnerships. More broadly, he’ll work closely with NJIT President Teik C. Lim and the Board of...

Ranyang Zhou - ECE PhD Student of the Month - March 2023

Thursday, March 2, 2023
Ranyang Zhou is a Ph.D. candidate supervised by Prof. Shaahin Angizi at ACAD Lab in the ECE Department at NJIT. Before joining NJIT, he was an M.S. student at George Washington University in D.C. His research interests include Processing-in-Memory and Row Hammer Attack Mitigation. What would you say that could be the next big thing in your area of research? Chip size is severely limited today due to physical limitations. Therefore, we must open our minds to improve performance in other directions. Processing-in-Memory is a good breakthrough for the dilemma. In addition, application...

'Byte Into Hardware' is New Hackathon by Engineering Students, Coming to NJIT this Spring

Monday, February 27, 2023
A new event on campus, Byte into Hardware, aims to remind us of the joy in exploring hacker culture's physical roots. The hardware hackathon will take place April 1-2 with themes focusing on accessibility and sustainability. Breadboards, microcontrollers and sensors will be everywhere, in contrast to the annual NJIT ACM chapter's HackNJIT, which skews to the software side. Registration is here. Student organizers are from the electrical and computer engineering department, and specifically from the NJIT IEEE chapter. But it's open to all, as there are there are bountiful hardware angles...

Anushreya Ghosh - ECE PhD Student of the Month - February 2023

Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Anushreya Ghosh, is a 4th-year PhD student advised by Dr. Alexander Haimovich. She completed her MS here at NJIT and continued to stay on here for her PhD. She is originally from India and have been staying in the US for the last 5 years. Her research area is Wireless Communications. She  works with non-cooperative radio frequency sources and use mixtures of these signals to perform Blind Source Separation. Currently, she is focused on frequency hopping sources and Direction of Arrival estimations. What would you say that could be the next big thing in your area of research? I...

U.S. News & World Report Ranks NJIT Online Programs, Two in the Top 50 Nationally

Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Two of New Jersey Institute of Technology’s online graduate programs placed among the top 50 in this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings of American universities, with another breaking into the top 100. NJIT was ranked No. 29 for its information technology programs, a two place jump from last year; and No. 47 for engineering, a 16-place rise. In addition, NJIT’s online master’s business program was ranked No. 95, and the online MBA was No. 132. All ranked programs saw improved scores over last year, according to the publication. "NJIT’s online graduate programs consistently...

Student Survey Finds Surprising Opposition to Remote Work in Labor Jobs

Friday, January 20, 2023
People with hands-on labor jobs may prefer to go to work even if their tasks could be done remotely through robotics, according to a survey of 218 students at New Jersey Institute of Technology. The survey was conducted by computer science major Matthew Nicol, a senior from Allenwood, whose research is part of a National Science Foundation grant by Cong Wang, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. After meeting Wang through a friend in a humanities course, "I thought it was very interesting, the idea that you could have someone at the port operating the crane from...

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