Newark College of Engineering

Rojas-Cessa, Yaramothu Named Senior Members of National Academy of Inventors

Tuesday, July 16, 2024
NJIT engineering professors Roberto Rojas-Cessa and Chang Yaramothu are among the newest senior members in the National Academy of Inventors and the only two from New Jersey in their class. Rojas-Cessa is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and a leader of NJIT’s Hispanic/Latino Employee Resource Group. He joined the university in 2001 and studies energy systems and networking. Yaramothu is an assistant professor of biomedical engineering. He earned his B.S. at NJIT in 2013, stayed here for graduate school and made his career as a Highlander. “We are very proud of Chang...

Leon Baptiste, NJIT Alum and Board Member, Recognized as NJBIZ ICON Honoree

Monday, July 15, 2024
Leon Baptiste '91 has earned distinction as an NJBIZ ICON honoree for his role in shaping New Jersey's economy as president of LB Electric Co. LLC. The NJBIZ ICON awards recognize leaders over the age of 60 from New Jersey industries such as accounting, healthcare, education, financial services, commercial real estate and more for work throughout their careers — not just in their respective fields, but in the state’s larger business community as well. In 1999, Leon formed LB Electric Company, LLC (LBE), at NJIT's Venturelink (formerly the Enterprise Development Center). LBE provides...

Novel Pre-Treatment Process Enhances PFAS Removal from Drinking Water

Tuesday, July 9, 2024
In a groundbreaking effort to tackle the pervasive issue of PFAS contamination in drinking water, a research team at New Jersey Institute of Technology has received funding from the Bureau of Reclamation's Desalination and Water Purification Research program. This highly competitive grant, awarded to only eight projects out of over eighty applicants, supports their innovative project titled "Enhanced Coagulation for the Removal of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances using Hydrophobic Ion Pairing Approach Project." Arjun Venkatesan, associate professor in NJIT’s Civil and Environmental...

AI, Relying on Hardware Support, Could Improve by Thinking for Itself

Tuesday, July 2, 2024
People keep finding novel uses for generative artificial intelligence, the latest being that it can learn to design specialized hardware to make itself work faster. Generative AI applications such as large language models became mainstream when ChatGPT went viral in 2022, but they require copious, complicated hardware underneath their user-friendly skins, especially when asked to act on more than just interactive text. “Specialized [hardware] accelerators are crucial for maximizing the potential of AI tools, but current design tools’ complexity and required hardware expertise hinder...

NJIT Alumni Honored with Entrepreneur of the Year New Jersey Awards

Monday, July 1, 2024
Two alumni from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), William Mascharka '64 and Carlos P. Oliver '77, have been named Entrepreneur of the Year 2024 New Jersey Award winners. This prestigious award, presented by Ernst & Young LLP (EY US), recognizes their exceptional entrepreneurial spirit and leadership in high-growth companies. William Mascharka, CEO of Frazier Industrial Company, and Carlos P. Oliver, president of Frazier, were selected by an independent panel of judges composed of previous award winners, leading CEOs and other notable business leaders. They were evaluated on...

Engineers Unveil Survival Mechanisms of a Singularly Durable Life Form, the Spore

Monday, June 24, 2024
Bacterial spores are some of nature’s most adept survivors. Subject to extreme environments – blazing and freezing temperatures, drought and even the vacuum of space – they coat themselves in a thick husk and lie dormant until conditions improve. In studying the way these single-cell organisms respond to an environmental change – an uptick in humidity, Gennady Gor, an associate professor of chemical and materials engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology, noticed anomalous behaviors. “They swell significantly and quickly. One of their amazing properties is just how fast they...

NJIT Alum and Trustee Chair Robert Cohen Inducted as Fellow to the National Academy of Inventors

Friday, June 21, 2024
Robert Cohen, a three-time alumnus, chair of NJIT's Board of Trustees and President of Digital, Robotics, and Enabling Technologies at Stryker, has been inducted as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). This prestigious honor recognizes Cohen’s prolific, innovative and groundbreaking contributions to the medtech field and academia. The NAI Fellows Program is the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors, celebrating those who have demonstrated a remarkable innovation, creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have significantly impacted...

Sunblock for Solar Panels: NJIT Startup Merges Data, Material Science

Thursday, June 20, 2024
Materium Technologies, a startup company with deep NJIT roots, is bringing data science innovations into the slowly evolving field of solar energy panels. Startups are always a gamble, but the Materium team has a good hand, with two pair of Highlanders — recent alumni Sheldon Fereira (M.S. ‘23) and Scott Daniel (M.S. ‘24), advised by Professor Nuggehalli Ravindra and Adjunct Instructor Michael Jaffe. Their collective scientific expertise spans the worlds of artificial intelligence, applied physics, biomedical engineering, and semiconductors. Their idea evolved throughout 2023 and the...

US News & World Report Ranks 2 NJIT Graduate Programs in Top 100 Nationally

Tuesday, June 18, 2024
The latest graduate studies rankings from U.S. News & World Report continue to boost the national standing of New Jersey Institute of Technology in the fields of engineering and computer science, with both programs ranking in the top 100. NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering (NCE) ranks No. 80 on the publication’s list of the Best Engineering Schools in the U.S. — the ninth consecutive year that NCE has made the top 100. “NJIT’s enduring placement in the top 100 reflects our intentional investment in hiring first-rate faculty, building and maintaining world-class research facilities...

NJIT Earns Top Rating in Money's List of the Best Colleges in America

Wednesday, June 12, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) earned the top rating in Money’s 2024 analysis of the Best Colleges in America. With five stars, NJIT tied Princeton University as the highest-rated university in New Jersey and matched STEM schools like MIT, Georgia Institute of Technology and California Institute of Technology. The rating marks an improvement from last year, when NJIT earned 4 ½ stars. In 2023, Money shifted from a numerical ranking of the top universities and colleges in the U.S. to individual ratings, based on factors such as graduation rates, cost of attendance, financial...

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