John A. Reif, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Makerspace Debut: A Custom-Designed Instrument for Energy Exploration

Tuesday, February 27, 2018
There is a potentially limitless supply of renewable, carbon-free energy within the Earth’s crust if we could only permeate the thick layers of crystalline rock that sit over it, barring access. So far, success in harnessing the Earth’s own heat has been mostly limited to tapping the boiling hot water that bubbles up with little prompting close to the surface. “The main challenge is to tap into deeper and less fractured hot rocks. This would make geothermal energy accessible in many more locations across the world. In order to achieve this goal, we need to fracture the rock in order...

Princeton Review Ranks NJIT Among Top 'Colleges That Pay You Back'

Monday, February 12, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is one of the nation's best colleges for students seeking a superb education with great career preparation and at an affordable price according to The Princeton Review®. The education services company profiles NJIT in the recently published 2018 edition of its annual guide, Colleges That Pay You Back: The 200 Schools That Give You the Best Bang for Your Tuition Buck. In order to make the list, institutions must demonstrate a strong academic program and affordability, and offer strong opportunities for career prospects after graduation. A return on...

NJIT Technology and Society Forum Presents: Resolving Complex Fluid Flows

Monday, January 22, 2018
From large-scale weather or environmental disaster predictions and efficient design of vehicles and power generators, to understanding how bacteria propel themselves and how nutrients are delivered to different organs in our body at the cell level — researchers will need to find new ways of studying the complex flow of liquids, gases and plasmas that drive or characterize intricate climatic, transportation and biological systems. In his upcoming Technology and Society Forum presentation, Joseph Katz will demonstrate how today’s latest multidimensional high-speed flow visualization...

Reversing Mining's Toxic Legacy on Tribal Lands

Friday, January 5, 2018
When a federal inspection team inadvertently released three million gallons of heavy metal-laden waste from a century-old, defunct gold mine near Silverton, Colorado into the Animas River, Lucia Rodriguez-Freire was one of the first responders on the scene. “The gold plume was crossing the border from Colorado to New Mexico the day I started my new position as a postdoc researcher at the University of New Mexico,” Rodriguez-Freire, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, said of the 2015 spill, which famously turned the river gold. “We knew we needed to react...

Writing about Nature's Tiniest Engineers: Harry N. Tuvel '74, '79

Friday, August 4, 2017
They build bridges and tunnels, measure two millimeters long, and are unwelcome at picnics. Ants, one of nature’s most minuscule and fascinating creatures, are the subject of a children’s book by civil engineer Harry N. Tuvel P.E., P.P.’74, ’79. Featuring images by his younger son, Eric Tuvel, and whimsical illustrations by Micah Ludeke, Ants, the Tiniest Engineers originated from a humanities class project assigned by the late Dr. Herman Estrin, professor of English, when Tuvel was enrolled in the early 1970s as a student in Newark College of Engineering. Tuvel had shown a copy of the...

Can-do Attitude

Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Clad in bright red T-shirts, teetering on stepladders in a cordoned off section of Livingston Mall, a team of designers from Gensler’s Morristown branch work together to build a massive mailbox constructed entirely from canned goods. It’s “Build Day,” and they’ve been stacking and arranging and lining and readjusting cans of tuna since 7:30 a.m. It’s now nearing 6 p.m., and they’ve only just begun to tackle the hardest part of the project: constructing the curve of the mailbox. “It’s tricky,” says College of Architecture and Design (CoAD) alum and Gensler job captain Jesus...

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