Newark College of Engineering

Teams of third, fourth and fifth-graders at New Jersey Institute of Technology's Elementary STEM Challenge went high-tech this year, aiming to solve environmental problems in their schools by using the capabilities of Micro Bit microcontrollers. The competition is in its third year, with Randolph's Fernbrook School Green Team taking home first place for their invention that detects hallway noise and alerts the principal's office when students distract their classmates by talking too loudly. Newark's own Marion P. Thomas Charter School STEAM Academy finished second, while Hurden Looker...

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...

NJIT's Robotics Club took home gold at their first competition held here in Newark, besting the competition which included Dartmouth, Rutgers, and Seton Hall universities. The victory qualifies Highlander robotics for the World Championships, April 27-29 in Dallas. The club also qualified in 2020 but that event was canceled due to the COVID pandemic. "We received a lot of good feedback from the people who attended," club president Umair Khan said. "The practice court we chose had just the right space for a VEX U competition. Overall, we exceeded our expectations for our first ever VEX U...

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...