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

Getting the Lead out of Newark's Drinking Water

Monday, February 3, 2020
As Newark races to replace thousands of lead-based pipes that feed drinking water into homes, the city faces another urgent challenge: stopping the heavy metal from leaching into the water supply while the massive remediation effort is underway. And that’s where NJIT’s environmental engineers come in. To mitigate exposure over the life of the project, which is expected to take up to 30 months, a research team is working with the city to develop and test chemical methods to prevent lead-shedding corrosion in as many as 18,000 service lines that stretch from the water main located under...

Top This! Alumnus Vatsal Shah is "Young Engineer of the Year" for 2019

Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Vatsal Shah '08H, M.S. '09, Ph.D. '14, a civil engineer with Mott MacDonald who oversees the design and construction of foundations – for wind and solar farms, wastewater treatment plants, tunnels and bridges, among others – in starkly diverse landscapes from the East Coast to Texas, is the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) “Young Engineer of the Year” for 2019. The award recognizes “outstanding contributions” to both the profession and the community. Shah’s swift rise in the field is best characterized by the distinctive energy mix that has fueled it: a scholar’s interest...

NJIT is Number 2 on College Factual's List of Best Civil Engineering Programs Nationwide

Tuesday, September 17, 2019
For the second year in a row, the Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) program at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is ranked number two in the nation by College Factual, a data analytics and research company that focuses on outcomes. Only Georgia Tech is ranked higher on the list of 206 programs evaluated, while MIT is third. The university’s CEE program is ranked number one in the country for veterans, and in the top 20 for popularity and graduates’ earnings. In its 2020 report, the company described NJIT as “among your best bets if you're planning on studying...

NJIT Conducts the Largest-Ever Simulation of the Deepwater Horizon Spill

Tuesday, June 18, 2019
In a 600-ft.-long saltwater wave tank on the coast of New Jersey, a team of NJIT researchers is conducting the largest-ever simulation of the Deepwater Horizon spill to determine more precisely where hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil dispersed following the drilling rig’s explosion in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Led by Michel Boufadel, director of NJIT’s Center for Natural Resources (CNR), the initial phase of the experiment involved releasing several thousand gallons of oil from a one-inch pipe dragged along the bottom of the tank in order to reproduce ocean current conditions. “...

Pegged at Six as an Engineer, Jakob Guido Grabs His 'Destiny' With Gusto

Monday, June 10, 2019
Jakob Guido’s engineering talent manifested at quite a young age. In kindergarten, he was photographed playing with blocks behind a sign that read: “Future Engineer.” Months later, his first-grade science teacher observed his advanced organizational abilities and pronounced: “You’re going to be an engineer.” Fast forward 15 years, and Guido, a rising senior majoring in civil engineering, has pursued his seeming destiny with boundless energy, formidable skills and enviable success, punctuating those early predictions with an exclamation point. As president of NJIT’s chapter of the...

The Making of "Mr. NJIT"

Tuesday, May 14, 2019
On his first day of college, Stephen DePalma ’72 and his classmates received blunt words about their daunting engineering curriculum from then-President Robert Van Houten, clearly intended as a form of “no nonsense” motivation: “Look to your left and look to your right – one of those people will not be there at graduation.” “Sink or swim – that was the standard then,” recounts De Palma. He decidedly swam, going on after graduation to help build Schoor DePalma Inc., an engineering firm that reshaped – yes, literally – the New Jersey landscape. He attributes his success in navigating those...

After 45 Years in the Business, Lauded N.J. Builder is Still Notching Milestones

Monday, May 6, 2019
When Angelo Del Russo ’82 says that he “always wanted to be a builder,” he is not exaggerating. By his early teens, the young enthusiast of masonry, concrete, roofing and carpentry already had a toehold in the industry, regularly working after school and on weekends with local home remodelers in the construction business. “It was mostly laborious work – raking gravel, pushing wheelbarrows full of concrete – but I loved it. To see the end product – that completed patio or set of stairs – was always so satisfying,” he recounts. “And as a teenager, I was making money.” But his parents,...

Students Share Discovery and Success at Dana Knox Research Showcase

Thursday, April 18, 2019
This week, nearly 50 of the year’s most promising NJIT student-researchers gathered to present their work to the campus community at the university’s annual year-end research competition — the 2019 Dana Knox Showcase “A Glimpse Into the Future.” At this year’s event, held open to the public on the second floor of the university’s Campus Center, students presented highlights from their research to attendees and more than 20 faculty-judges through poster demonstrations that ran the spectrum of scientific discovery at NJIT — from research exploring the social phenomena of live-stream...

Newark College of Engineering Celebrates a Century's Worth of Ties That Bind

Thursday, April 11, 2019
For the latest in a series of eloquent centennial-year tributes to its traditions and people, a record crowd of more than 250 flocked to Newark College of Engineering’s 21st annual Salute to Engineering Excellence, held last night at the Park Avenue Club in Florham Park. “What we’ve achieved at NJIT is on the bedrock of NCE – the oldest and largest college of the university,” President Joel Bloom noted at the evening’s outset. For Dean Moshe Kam, that bedrock exists to nurture students – past and present – with their diverse and distinctive skills and their rich potential to shape...

NJIT to Confer Honorary Doctorates at 103rd Commencement Exercises May 21, 2019

Thursday, April 11, 2019
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy to Deliver 2019 Commencement Address and Receive Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will award more than 3,000 baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral degrees at the 103rd Commencement exercises May 21, 2019, and May 23, 2019, at the Prudential Center and at NJIT’s Wellness and Events Center, respectively, in Newark, New Jersey. The university also will confer honorary degrees on three distinguished individuals May 21, 2019, at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy will...

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