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

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....

NJIT's Student-Researchers Shine at Dana Knox Research Showcase

Saturday, April 22, 2023
Some of NJIT’s brightest up-and-coming researchers grabbed center stage on campus at the Dana Knox Student Research Showcase, a springtime tradition that continues to highlight student ingenuity and diverse research accomplishments across the university’s six colleges. For participants of the 18th annual research competition, it was a special opportunity to connect with the campus community by discussing their recent discoveries and innovations, most of which have been years in the making. “The Dana Knox Student Research Showcase provides us with an opportunity to shine a spotlight on...

Two NJIT Students Win Prestigious Fellowships to Grow in their Fields of Study

Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Two NJIT undergraduates won prestigious fellowships. Olivia Kolakowski ’24 was awarded the Brooke Owens Fellowship, and Milan Patel ’23 has been selected as an Amgen Scholar at Columbia University.  The Fellowship is designed to serve both as an inspiration and as a career boost to capable young women and other gender minorities who, like Dawn Brooke Owens (1980-2016), aspire to explore the sky and stars, to shake up the aerospace industry, and to help their fellow people here on planet Earth. The Amgen Scholars Program selects a group of motivated undergraduate students who will...

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...

NJIT and Israeli Engineers Create Clean Water Tech with Added Industrial Benefit

Thursday, March 16, 2023
Environmental safety and corporate interests tend not to match, but engineers at NJIT and Israel's Ben Gurion University of the Negev found a way to filter dangerous nitrate from water while also reducing the energy needed to create industrial ammonia. The research, Electrified Membrane System for Chemical-Free Ammonia Production / Separation from Nitrate Containing Wastewater, is supported by $450,000 in funding from the U.S.-Israeli Binational Science Foundation. It's related to a wider effort of removing hazardous compounds from water, and to membrane fouling research, both...

Four Takeaways from the Inaugural Real Estate Innovation Symposium

Friday, March 3, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Paul Profeta Real Estate Technology, Design and Innovation Center and the Martin Tuchman School of Management hosted their first “Innovation in Real Estate” symposium, a day featuring academic leaders, government officials and technology, real estate and construction professionals. The theme of innovation was made clear early by Ron Bekkerman, strategic advisor and former CTO of Cherre Inc., a real estate data integration platform. Bekkerman, one of the earliest data scientists to jump into real estate, says his field is about repeatedly extracting...

'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...

FEMA's Marc K. Raoul '10 Helps Disaster-Struck Communities Recover and Rebuild

Monday, February 27, 2023
Since 2011, NJIT alumnus Marc K. Raoul ’10, an emergency management specialist for FEMA, has traveled across the U.S. and its territories to help communities recover and rebuild following hurricanes, floods and pandemics. A veteran of Hurricanes Sandy (2012), Irma (2017) and Maria (2017), he’s been a damage assessor, a disaster recovery planner and a proposal reviewer for towns and cities in New Jersey, Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, New York, Missouri, California, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. He was back at NJIT in 2021 to help operate FEMA’s campus-based COVID-19 vaccination...

NJIT Career Fair Growth Fuels Changes, Innovations for Improved Experiences and Outcomes

Monday, February 27, 2023
NJIT’s Career Development Services hosted its marquee event, again besting attendance and participation numbers over its previous career fair. Taking a page out of the logistics-improvement playbook of participating companies like UPS, Johnson & Johnson, Raytheon and others, CDS implemented changes to improve candidate and employer efficiency and experience. The event included the introduction of Fast Pass, a program which allows for pre-registration sign-in to alleviate initial queuing, a complete redesign of the physical layout to reduce choke points in movement, and extended the...

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