Newark college engineering

NJIT celebrated its undergraduate Class of 2026 at Prudential Center in Newark, honoring baccalaureate degree candidates from across the university’s colleges in a ceremony centered on service, achievement, alumni connection and the responsibility to use an NJIT education with purpose.

Samantha Montalbine '26 always knew that she liked engineering. She was team captain of her middle-school robotics team in Brooklyn, and at Freehold Township High School she took engineering classes and served as president of the Technology Students Association.

But when Montalbine applied to New Jersey Institute of Technology's Newark College of Engineering, she was uncertain about which engineering track would be the right one for her. She ended up choosing mechanical engineering for an unconventional reason.

NJIT celebrated its master’s and doctoral graduates in two commencement ceremonies that joined academic tradition with messages about resilience, uncertainty, knowledge and the responsibility to use advanced education in service of others.

NJIT men's swimming and diving senior Zac Kuzak and women's soccer senior Mikayla Balio have been nominated for the 2025-26 America East Man and Woman of the Year awards, the conference office announced Thursday.

New Jersey Institute of Technology is expanding student entrepreneurship through a grant from Santander Bank that supports the university’s Entrepreneurial Experience program, a Center for Student Entrepreneurship initiative that connects students with coursework, mentorship, experiential learning and opportunities to develop ventures of their own.

Childhood friends from Bergen County — two seniors and an alumnus — are jointly forming a startup company, MechSense Labs, to apply what they’ve learned at New Jersey Institute of Technology in designing emergency rescue equipment.

MechSense’s first invention is a robotic rover called NodeRover, employing artificial intelligence to make its own decisions and ad-hoc wireless mesh networking to stay in touch, especially in dangerous situations or hard-to-reach locations that are too risky for human responders.

If you’ve ever picked up a Tom Ford fragrance or reached for an Aveda haircare product, you’ve already encountered Laszlo Moharita’s work — whether you realized it or not.

An orthopedic total joint knee replacement is not a hinge.

It bends, rolls, glides and rotates. It bears the force of walking, climbing stairs, rising from a chair and living an active life. It has to mimic naturally enough to restore function, but remain stable enough to last. Its materials must survive millions of cycles inside the body, where the smallest design decisions can affect wear, inflammation, bone loss, loosening and pain.

That was the kind of problem Michael J. Pappas ’59, ’64 helped solve.

Before she ever toured NJIT, Natalia Peña had already made up her mind.

A scholarship offer from the Albert Dorman Honors College changed what college looked like for Peña and her family, easing the biggest question hanging over her future. “For the first time, my worries about how I would afford college faded,” she recalled in remarks this spring at NJIT’s Scholarship Luncheon.

One of the most pervasive global pollution problems of the 21st century is a group of human-made chemicals called PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances). Used since the late 1930s in consumer and industrial products to repel water and resist stains, these compounds earned the nickname "forever chemicals" because they don't naturally break down over time. As a result, PFAS has accumulated for decades in air, water and soil worldwide.